After the end of the Second World War, in 1946 Dimitrijević enrolled in the Mining Department of the Technical College in Belgrade.
He has published over 170 papers, books, textbooks and manuals in the country and in the US, Germany, the USSR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Iran, and others.
He accepted and developed the idea of mobility and set up a new model of the Dinarides based on plate tectonics.
He is the only geologist from the former SFRY whose works are included in the world's most important series "Benchmark papers in Geology".
He is the editor of the edition "Geological Atlas of Serbia" of 16 thematic maps measuring 1: 2,000,000.