Admir masic max planck biography
My research focus is the development of innovative spectroscopic methodologies, mainly based on Raman and Infra-Red (IR) spectral imaging.
Admir Masic is a scientist, currently an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.!
Using lessons from the past to build a better future
By Zach Winn | MIT News
As a teenager living in a small village in what was then Yugoslavia, Admir Masic witnessed the collapse of his home country and the outbreak of the Bosnian war.
When his childhood home was destroyed by a tank, his family was forced to flee the violence, leaving their remaining possessions to enter a refugee camp in northern Croatia.
It was in Croatia that Masic found what he calls his “magic.”
“Chemistry really forcefully entered my life,” recalls Masic, who is now an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
“I’d leave school to go back to my refugee camp, and you could either play ping-pong or do chemistry homework, so I did a lot of homework, and I began to focus on the subject.”
Masic has never let go of his magic. Long after chemistry led him out of Croatia, he’s come to understand that the past holds crucial lessons for building a better fu
