Djordje Petkovic is a assistant professor at the Department of Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is a member of the Laboratory of Thermal Turbomachinery.

Since November 2017, he has been employed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, first as a research assistant and then as a teaching assistant. In February 2024 he has been promoted to the assistant professor. He is engaged in performing teaching at the Master's academic studies in the courses of Gas Turbines, Thermal Power Plants 1 and 2, Turbocompressors, Thermal Turbomachinery and Steam Turbines 3. In October 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Calculation of Transient Performance of Gas Turbines". The dissertation supervisor was Prof. Dr. Milan Petrović. As part of his scientific research, he develops mathematical models and software for predicting the transient behaviour of gas turbines, as well as the flow calculations in thermal turbomachinery. He participated in international and domestic scientific research projects, and the development of several technical solutions in the field of thermal power engineering.

He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME and the Society of Thermal Engineers of Serbia.