Lana Popovic-Maneski, PhD

Lana Popovic Ph.D. is a researcher at the Institute of Technical Sciences (SASA) in Belgrade, Serbia. She has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and MSc in automatic control. She is interested in functional electrical stimulation, wearable sensors, motor control, electrodes for FES and EMG.

Speciality Technical science
Degrees PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Expertise
  • Rehabilitation Engineering
  • Functional Electrical Stimulation
  • Wearable Sensors
Office Veljka Petrovića 41, Belgrade, Serbia
Gender Female

CV

Lana was born in Belgrade in 1983. She graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 2007 (the five-year program), where she defended her PhD thesis titled Upper extremity tremor suppression system based on functional electrical stimulation out-of-phase with tremor in 2011. Between 2008 and 2012, she worked at the company Tecnalia Serbia in Belgrade and was responsible for developing devices and methods for rehabilitation of upper extremities after injury of the central or peripheral nervous system using surface electrical stimulation. She was elected an assistant professor at the State University of Novi Pazar in 2012. Since 2013, she has been involved in teaching at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade (Biomedical Engineering). She was elected a Research Associate in 2015 and Senior Research Associate in 2021 at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

She published three textbooks for MSc studies in biomedical engineering and more than 50 peer-reviewed papers cited more than 1000 times.  She participated in FP7, COST, TEMPUS projects, and bilateral projects with France. A full bibliography can be assessed on: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8WH0Y8MAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. In 2018 she was the visiting adjunct professor of ENS, Lyon.

In 2017 she founded the company 3F Fit Fabricando Faber  which developed and produces pacemakers for movements and instruments for biofeedback with medical CE certificates. For the product Motimove she received the award from the Innovation Fund of Serbia, then the award for the best technological innovation from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, and the ENECA award, all in 2018. 3F stimulators were used in CyberBike races in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and by different scientific institutions the world. Motimove is used today by many individuals within the FES bikes and rowers sold by french company Kurage.

Fields of interest: biomedical engineering, technology for rehabilitation and assistance to the disabled, functional electrical stimulation

Experience and education

Founder of 3F-Fit Fabricando Faber dooCEO

Since 2017 she runs a company 3F which produces pacemakers for movement

University of Novi Pazar and BelgradeAssistant professor

Since 2012 , she has been Assistant Professor involved in teaching at the University of Novi Pazar and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade (Biomedical Engineering). She was elected a Research Associate in 2015 and Senior Research Associate in 2021 at ITS-SASA.

BelgradeTecnalia Serbia

She worked at the company Tecnalia Serbia in Belgrade and was responsible for developing devices and methods for rehabilitation of upper extremities after injury of the central or peripheral nervous system using surface electrical stimulation.

3F – FIT FABRICANDO FABER