Dragomir Bondžić was born in 1973 in Kruševac. He finished elementary school and high school in Aleksandrovac. He graduated in 1999, obtained master’s degree in 2003 and PhD in 2010 at the Department of History of Yugoslavia at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Since March 2000, he has been working at the Institute of Contemporary History, where in 2019 he obtained the title of principal research fellow. He deals with the history of Yugoslavia and Serbia in the 20th century, especially the development of science, education and culture after 1945, the history of Belgrade University, the relationship between the state and the intellectual elite, the international scientific and higher education ties of Serbia and Yugoslavia in the context of the Cold War, the education of students from non-aligned countries in Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia’s nuclear policy.

He published seven monographs, over 130 articles and over 60 reports and information in domestic and foreign scientific journals and anthologies. The most important monographs are: Beogradski univerzitet 1944–1952, Beograd 2004; Univerzitet u socijalizmu: visoko školstvo u Srbiji 1950–1960, Beograd 2010; Misao bez pasoša. Međunarodna saradnja Beogradskog univerziteta 1945–1960, Beograd 2011; Između ambicija i iluzija. Nuklearna politika Jugoslavije 1945–1990, Beograd 2016. In co-authorship with Kost Nikolić, he is the author of a history textbook for primary and secondary schools. He participated in over 80 international and national scientific conferences in the country and abroad (Croatia, Algeria, Poland, Macedonia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He gave numerous public lectures and participated in over 100 public forums and book promotions. He edited several collective volumes and participated in the organization of several national and international scientific conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals, and since 2015 he is the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal “Istorija 20. veka”.