Sasa Djuric, Assistant Professor

Sasa Djuric

Assistant Professor

American University of The Middle East

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Doctorate, Exercise And Sports Sciences
Experience
9 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 9 Months

Assistant Professor at American University of The Middle East
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • My current job since September 2021

Teaching following courses:
FN303 - Essentials of Nutrition
PES111 - Lifetime Fitness
PES115 - Individual and Dual Movement Forms
PES 117 - Team Movement Forms
BUS230 - Technology and Research Methods

Moderating PES111, PES115 and PES117 courses.

In March 2022 gave an interview for The New York Times.

Assistant Professor at University of Ljubljana
  • Slovenia - Ljubljana
  • September 2018 to September 2021

Teaching volleyball course

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Kinesiologia Slovenica scientific journal (https://www.kinsi.si/) (still active role)

Member of the SloFIT research team for monitoring physical fitness (National physical fitness monitoring system of Slovenia) (http://en.slofit.org/team)

One of the authors of the European project FitBack - the European Network for the support of Development of Systems of Monitoring Physical Fitness of Children and Adolescents (http://fitbackeurope.eu/en-us/)

Award for the most outstanding research achievement at the University of Ljubljana in 2020 (ten papers are selected each year for the entire university)

Research & Teaching Assistant at University of Belgrade
  • Serbia - Belgrade
  • February 2014 to February 2018

Worked as Research & Teaching Assistant within the project “Neural factors of human locomotion and their adaptive changes” at the University of Belgrade (biomechanical laboratory).

Experience in kinetic and kinematic analysis of human movement (using force plates, isokinetic dynamometers, Qualisys 3D motion system, electromyography, tensiomyography, cycle ergometers, strain gauges, photocells etc.)

Education

Doctorate, Exercise And Sports Sciences
  • at Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Belgrade
  • January 2018

The BEST STUDENT (duration of study - three years) with an average grade of 10.00 (out of 10.00) Dissertation: “The impact of training with different types of loads on the mechanical properties of muscles” Mentor was prof. dr. Slobodan Jaric (University of Delaware, Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, Newark, Delaware, USA)

Specialties & Skills

Volleyball
Biomechanics
Personal Training
Education
Fitness
physical fitness monitoring
training
coaching
research
teaching
teamwork

Languages

English
Expert
Slovenian
Expert
Serbian
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Understanding Open Research (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2022

Hobbies

  • Fishing