There is probably no one today who hasn’t heard of the company AstraZeneca. We know of it from the media as one of the leading institutes producing vaccines to cope with COVID19. But did you know that Bosnia & Herzegovina’s own Dino Oglić is applying artificial intelligence in discovering new drugs and improving processes? So what does an AI researcher actually do at AstraZeneca?

Dino Oglić was born in Stolac and achieved an impressive academic record in Sarajevo with his Master’s degree in Mathematics from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, the University of Sarajevo where he graduated as a top student with a 10/10 GPA, earning him the Golden Badge of the University of Sarajevo. He taught at different departments and faculties, but also high schools. Under his mentorship, a team of Bosnian-Herzegovinian high school students participated at Math Olympiads and competitions in Kazakhstan and Amsterdam and won a total of three bronze medals.

He earned his Ph.D. in Germany at the University of Bonn, where he also worked as a Teaching/Research Assistant during his studies, working on Statistical Learning Theory, as well as Kernel-Based Approaches for Interactive Data Visualization. In 2015 he moved to the UK, Dino worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Nottingham. From 2018 to 2020 he was a researcher at King’s College London, one of the UK’s top 10 universities and one of the oldest universities in England.

Listen to this podcast to uncover his life journey, what all his work entails and how he perceived the differences between the UK and Germany as a student, researcher and academic. We discuss the impact of AI on drug discovery as well as what has changed in Bosnia & Herzegovina's education system since Dino's departure to Germany.