EDUCATION

2023 – PhD student, submodule Molecular microbiology and biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, UB
2023 – MSc in Biology, module Experimental biomedicine, Faculty of Biology, UB
2022 - MSc in Biology, Faculty of Biology, UB

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2024 – Junior researcher, Group for molecular microbiology, IMGGE, UB
2023 – PhD thesis, Group for molecular microbiology, IMGGE, UB
2022 - 2023 – Master thesis, Group for sociomicrobiology, IMGGE, UB

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2024 – recipient of The Ivan Đaja Award for the best master thesis in the field of physiology, carried out at institutes and universities in Serbia, and defended during 2022/2023
2023 – teaching assistant, course “Principles of biochemistry and molecular biology”, BF, UB
2023 – member of the Serbian society for microbiology
2023 – junior associate at Petnica Science Center
2022 - volunteer at Department for Comparative Physiology and Ecophysiology , Institute for Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, UB
2021 - participant at Balkan Physiology Competition, Faculty od Medicine, University of Sarajevo
2019 – participant at Researchers’ Night Fever

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Bacteriophage isolation, purification, and characterization, and their application as an alternative antimicrobial agent in the treatment of infections caused by multi-drug resistant pathogenic bacteria
• Modeling infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacteria using the zebrafish (Danio rerio) model
• Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model for toxicology research