Jelena Djokikj was born in Skopje in 1985. She graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2007, ranking first in her class. In 2011, she defended her master’s thesis in Industrial Design and Marketing, also at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Djokikj earned her PhD in 2020 with the thesis “Form Design for Additive Manufacturing”, in which she explored the possibilities that additive manufacturing offers to industrial designers. Since then, she has primarily focused on exploring the use of additive manufacturing technologies as a means of promoting sustainable development.
Her current research centers on sustainable design and design with social impact. Djokikj is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Along with the teaching she is part of many international consortiums in the field of industrial design. Djokikj as a researcher has numerous papers published in renounced papers.
