Dr Milka Malešević is an Associate Research Professor in the Group for Molecular Microbiology at IMGGE. Her research is focused on the identification and study of molecules that silence bacterial cell-to-cell communication, as well as antimicrobial molecules effective in the treatment of infections caused by pathogenic bacteria. Additionally, she studies the diversity of bacterial communities using modern omics techniques. She completed her undergraduate, master and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. She earned her PhD in Biological Sciences in 2020 by defending her dissertation entitled "Identification and characterization of biogenic silencers of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing". She has participated in several national, bilateral and international projects. She received numerous awards and scholarships, including the national L’Oréal-UNESCO Award "For Women in Science" and the Goran Ljubijankić Foundation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Molecular Biology. Dr Malešević actively contributes to the development of young scientists through activities directed toward working with students at all levels of study. She is currently supervising one doctoral dissertation and has mentored three master's theses, two of which were the result of collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Turin. She completed her intern and postdoc visits at the University of Napoli and the University of Trento. In addition to her research work, she is also engaged in the popularization of science. She is a member of the Serbian Society for Microbiology, the Serbian Society for Molecular Biology and the Serbian Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.