EDUCATION

2012 - PhD in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade                 
(Thesis: Functional diversity of bacterial communities isolated from truffle's fruit bodies)
2006 - M. Sc. in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2014 - Research Associate, Laboratory for Microbial Molecular Genetics and Ecology, IMGGE
2011 - 2014 - Research Assistant, LMMGE, IMGGE, UB
2010 - 2011 - Research Trainee, LMMGE, IMGGE, UB
2008 - 2009 - DAAD scholarship, Department for Soil Ecology, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany
2006 - 2010 - PhD student at Faculty of Biology, UB, funded as scholar by Ministry of Sciences and Technological Development, Republic Serbia

OTHER ACTIVITIES 

2014 - Science in Motion for Friday Night Commotion – SCIMFONICOM (H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2014)
2013 - 2014 - Invited speaker and demonstrator for the lectures of microbiology at the biomedicine course at Petnica Science Centre, Republic of Serbia
2013 - Science in Motion for Friday Night Commotion 2.013 – SCIMFONICOM (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-NIGHT 609724)
2012 - Science in Motion for Friday Night Commotion – SCIMFONICOM (PNIGHT-GA-2012-316471)
2011 - Researchers' Night Fever "RENIFEVER" (EU, CSA-SA, FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT- 287432
2011 - A short course of DNAlogy - the project for science popularisation funded by Ministry of Sciences and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia
2004 - 2005 - Demonstrator at the course Cytology and the course Cytology, embryology and histology at Faculty of Biology, UB
2003 - Research Assistant at Biology (microbiology) course at Petnica Science Centre, Republic of Serbia 

RESEARCH INTEREST 

• Evaluation of the toxic and teratogenic effect synthesized chemically by bacteria by using zebrafish embryos model (Danio rerio) through monitoring of embryos development and survival
• Investigation of the destructive roles in the biodeterioration library materials through testing of their capabilities to degraded of painting, paper and parchment to exploit painting pigments as the sole source
• Functional diversity from truffles’ fruit bodies, with the aim to clarify the potential roles of bacteria in the truffles fruit body nutrition during its and protection from soil mycopathogenic fungi