Stefan Rudaković (Belgrade, 1989) graduated from the Department of Naval Architecture at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, in 2014 and received his PhD in 2021 with the dissertation “A novel approach to stability assessment of river-sea ships”. During his studies, he completed several internships: at the Vahali shipyard in Belgrade (2012), at the company Via Donau in Vienna (2012), and at the classification society Bureau Veritas in Antwerp (2015). He also took part in the Erasmus+ student exchange program, during which he carried out part of the research for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Trieste (2018). He was awarded a DAAD scholarship, which enabled him to conduct a two-and-a-half-month research stay at the DST institute in Duisburg (2024).

He has been employed at the Department of Naval Architecture since 2014, first as a research associate, then as a teaching assistant from 2015, and as an assistant professor since 2021. He teaches the courses Ship Geometry, Ship Buoyancy and Stability (1 and 2), and Seakeeping.

He participated in the international research project NOVIMAR, funded under the Horizon 2020 program, as well as in the project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development “Development of a New Generation of Safe, Efficient and Ecological (SE-ECO) Ships”. He was also the manager of the “Confluence Belgrade” project and the leader of the Department’s student team. His research focuses on ship stability and safety, seakeeping, shipbuilding regulations, and ship hydrodynamics. He is a member of DBIT and RINA.