Sveta Alegro Earns Chemistry PhD With a 9.67 Average
The founder of the Alegro band has a doctorate from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. His thesis deals with soil cleanup in Obrenovac, and two two-year breaks interrupted his studies.
Sveta Andric, better known as Sveta Alegro, has earned a doctorate from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (PMF), in the department of chemistry, biochemistry and environmental protection. His average grade in the doctoral program is 9.67. The founder of the Alegro band finished the doctorate a few days ago, and media headlines give his age as 48.
He enrolled in the doctoral program in 2016. As he told Nova.rs, the road to the degree was not a straight one.
What was Sveta Alegro’s doctoral thesis about?
The dissertation is titled “Phytoremediation of Contaminated Sites in the Municipality of Obrenovac Using Constructed Wetlands With Miscanthus x giganteus.” Phytoremediation means cleaning polluted soil with plants. The research was carried out in Obrenovac, where Sveta still works today.
The project demanded years of serious fieldwork. The field research lasted three years, and he says of it:
“This is serious research that lasted three years and was done right out in the field.”
Why did the doctorate take since 2016?
Sveta took two breaks, each two years long. The first was caused by the coronavirus pandemic, when the experiment could not be carried out. Health problems caused the second.
“The break was two years during the pandemic, because I couldn’t do the experiment,” Sveta Alegro told Nova.rs.
The breaks were not the only obligations standing between him and the degree. He listed what he carried alongside his studies like this:
“Kids, a job, music that is both love and work at the same time, and, well, I pushed through in the end.”
Who is Sveta Alegro away from the stage?
Besides music, he has 19 years of experience in managerial positions in his field. He was director of a private company, then director of “Prva iskra Bazne hemije” a.d., and then director of the public company for environmental protection and improvement in Obrenovac. Today he is assistant director for ecology at JKP Obrenovac.
So the topic of his dissertation and his current job are tied to the same municipality, Obrenovac. Sveta summed up his biography in an interview with Nova.rs, published on that portal on October 8:
“Besides music, which has always been there, I am a doctor with 19 years of work experience in managerial positions in the field.”
Music ran alongside his career. He founded the Alegro band in 1999, owns the band, and is the author of an album with eight songs. One biography now holds the entertainment scene, director’s chairs in environmental companies and, newly, a doctoral degree in chemistry.
