The Faculty of Physics of the University of Belgrade is one of the leading educational and scientific institutions in Serbia. It consists of the Department of Physics and Department of Meteorology. The Faculty organizes undergraduate studies in five study groups and directions, masters and doctoral studies, as well as scientific research work in 11 fields of physics and meteorology. Teaching, scientific research and professional work are conducted through 11 departments, while the experimental work is carried out in a total of 29 laboratories.

Scientists and researchers of the Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics have a long tradition in teaching and research in the field of nuclear physics and high energy physics. Members of this Department participate actively in the CMS experiment at CERN since 1997.

Their involvement includes the hardware work within the ECAL of the CMS detector, physics analysis of experimental data and engineering work on design and 3D modeling of parts of the CMS detector.