After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering, the French government granted him a scholarship in 1933, so that year he pursued his studies at the Aerotechnical Department of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr Paris.
On January 30, 1958 he was elected an associate fellow of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) - The Department of Engineering, and on 16 December 1965, he became a full member of the SANU.