Goran Jovanović, PhD, is a Full Research Professor at the IMGGE, and conducts research in the field of Molecular Microbiology. He completed his undergraduate studies in Molecular Biology and Physiology and master's studies in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Belgrade. He obtained his doctorate in biomedical sciences at Rockefeller University (New York, USA). He continued his scientific work at the University Medical Center in Geneva and then at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London, where for 16 years he led the Membrane Biology group, and subsequently at the Medical Faculty of the same College where he studied antibacterial peptides. During the period 1988-2004, he worked for 11 years at IMGGE, where he returned in 2020. Alongside his scientific work, he also engages in pedagogical activities. From 1989 to 2004, he was an assistant in the subjects Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics of Prokaryotes and an associate professor in Molecular Genetics of Prokaryotes and Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms (establishing the course) at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, and in the period 2012-2019 he taught Genes and Genomics at Imperial College London. In his scientific work, he has made significant contributions to studies of cytoplasmic membrane stress signal transduction and transcriptional regulation mechanisms of sigma 54 promoters in bacteria. He works on elucidating the mechanism of maintaining cell membrane integrity following response to extracytoplasmic stress as well as on the evolution of promoters from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. Using state-of-the-art technologies, many research results have been brought to the level of individual cells and individual molecules, including data processing and system modeling using bioinformatics methods and advanced statistics. Based on research results in bacterial membrane biology, he develops an innovative approach to using antibacterial peptides. He has published over 50 scientific papers and monographs in leading international scientific journals. He holds three American patents for phasmids, cloning vectors with bacteriophage and plasmid properties used in phage display techniques in immunotherapies and technologies for weak protein-protein, protein-peptide, and protein-DNA interactions. He contributes to the development of science and education in Serbia as one of the founders of the Society for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (1990-1993) and by working on connecting science, innovation, and deep technology as Assistant Director for Science and International Relations at IMGGE and as coordinator of the World Bank's SAIGE project since 2021. He is one of the conceptual creators of the BIO4 campus project in Belgrade.