< BACK TO ABOUT Dejan Strbad Researcher Dejan Strbad is a researcher at the Lisbon Council. Mr Strbad is a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of professional experience ranging from solution architecture and software engineering to machine learning. Before joining the Lisbon Council, he co-founded Ascalia – a software company supporting businesses in analysing and optimising production as well as energy and resources expenditure – where he serves as chief technology officer, combining technical acumen and entrepreneurial vision to offer innovative solutions across diverse industries like the industrial internet of things and industry 4.0. He has an academic background in physics and computer science.