Milica Todorovic

Milica Todorovic serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Turku (UTU). She leads the Materials Informatics Laboratory (MIL) and heads the Modern Industrial Materials MSc track. Her institutional roles include Vice-director of the Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing (SUSMAT) UTU profiling area, Vice-chair of COST Action CA22154 DAEMON, Vice-leader of the Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Future (HAIF) Doctoral Training Network, and Co-lead of Finnish Centre for AI (FCAI) Highlight E.

Her research integrates artificial intelligence algorithms with first-principles simulations to optimize functional materials and device performance. The MIL group develops data-driven solutions spanning aerosol research, chemical engineering of bio-based materials, and experimental-computational integration. Current projects focus on battery recycling optimization, magnetic materials design, perovskite engineering, and atmospheric aerosol analysis using Bayesian optimization and active learning techniques. Her work demonstrates significant interdisciplinary reach across computational chemistry, nanotechnology, and sustainable engineering.

Scientific contributions include:

• Development of AI workflows for materials discovery
• Bayesian optimization frameworks for adsorption structure prediction
• Question answering systems for materials literature mining
• Data-efficient methods for molecular property prediction

Her teaching portfolio includes advanced courses in Data Visualisation and Analysis, Simulations and New Materials, and Machine Learning for Materials Science. She actively contributes to European research networks through DAEMON and FCAI initiatives, driving collaborative efforts in data-driven materials engineering.