Date of birth: 11 August 1978, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia
Education:
• Ph.D. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2010.
• M.Sc. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2006.
• B.Sc. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2002.
Current position:
• Senior Research Associate, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", University of Belgrade, 2024-.
• Managing Editor, Botanica Serbica, 2019-.
Previous positions:
• Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2020-2024.
• Research Associate, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2014-2020.
• Research Assistant, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2011-2014.
• Teaching Associate, Faculty of Biology University of Belgrade, 2005-2006.
Research focus:
• Ionomics of hyperaccumulator species
• Ultramafics
• Metalliferous sites
• Phytoremediation
• Urban ecology
Professional training:
• Synthesys, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, 2023.
• DESY Photon Science-DOOR, Hamburg, 2023, 2024.
International projects:
• Convergent adaptation of plants to toxic substrates, 2023-.
• COST Action 19116 -Trace metal metabolism in plants – PLANTMETALS, 2020-.
• Ionomics of hyperaccumulator plants from the Balkans, 2020-2022.
• Flora and vegetation on ultramafits (serpentinite) as a basis for expanding national lists of plants and habitats in Montenegro and Serbia, with special reference to the bioaccumulation potential of individual plants for phytoremediation, 2019-2020.
National projects:
• Monitoring of orchids in NP Kopaonik, 2023.
• Data collection and other services related to the establishment of Natura 2000 as part of the ecological network of Serbia, 2018.
• Data collection and other services related to the continuation of preparation of red lists of groups of organisms of flora, fauna and fungi of Serbia, 2016, 2018.
• Monitoring of flora in National Park Tara, 2016, 2019-2022.
• Data collection and other services related to the continuation of establishment of ecological network in Serbia, 2016.
• Biodiversity of plants of Serbia and the Balkan peninsula – assessment, sustainable use and conservation, 2011-2020.
• Diversity of flora and vegetation of the central Balkans – ecology, chorology and conservation, 2006-2010.
• Green regulation of Belgrade, 2005-2007.
• Endemic flora of Serbia - ecology, distribution and conservation, 2002-2005.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It encompasses diversity at the genetic, taxonomic and ecosystem levels. Biodiversity is important in both natural and artificial ecosystems. Today, biodiversity is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, unsustainable resource use, invasive species, pollution and global climate change.
Invasion biology studies introduced invasive species and their impact on the diversity, structure, dynamics, and functioning of the ecosystems they inhabit. Invasive species are considered one of the most significant factors that lead to a reduction in biodiversity.
Biomonitoring is the process of systematically observing, measuring, and analysing the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic responses of living organisms to environmental changes, thus providing qualitative or quantitative information on the state of the environment. It includes the use of various bioindicators, biomonitors, bioaccumulators, and biomarkers.
Bioremediation is the process in which living organisms (mainly plants, microorganisms, or plant and microbial enzymes) are used to reduce, degrade or detoxify contaminants, pollutants, and toxins in soil, water, and other elements of the environment.
Biotechnology is defined as the use of biological processes and systems (living organisms or their parts) to develop or modify different processes or products useful to humans and includes analysis of risks of its implementation (biosafety).
Ecophysiology studies the physiological processes in living beings that are a response to changes in the external environment and that are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms and interactions that underlie the adaptive strategies of organisms. The effect of climate change, the presence of various pollutants, the availability of nutrients, and habitat degradation are some of those influences that are studied.
Ecotoxicology studeies the toxic effects of chemicals on the environment. The effects are studied at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs, individual organisms, populations or ecosystems.
Urban ecology focuses on studying fundamental ecological concepts within urban areas. It examines how ecological patterns, relations and processes differ in urban environments compared to non-urban environments, and investigates the impact of urbanisation on the ecology of organisms. Additionally, urban ecology examines the relationships and interactions between ecological and social systems within urban ecosystems that are made exclusively by anthropogenic activity.
Environmental protection comprises reduction or prevention of pollution, negative impacts on the environment, damage caused to ecosystems or natural resources caused by human activities.
Siniša Stanković (1892–1974) was a man who left a deep mark on the field of Serbian and European biological science with his scientific work. He was one of the founders of the ecological trend in biology, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a professor at the University of Belgrade, and an editor of scientific journals. Additionally, he held positions in various scientific societies. He was also a versatile politician and high-ranking official, serving as president of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People's Liberation of Serbia, president of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Serbia, and president of the Academic Council of Yugoslavia. He had a special love for music; he played the flute and was a member of the university chamber ensemble of the musical association Collegium Musicum.
Academician Siniša Stanković was born on March 26, 1892, in Zaječar to father Đorđe and mother Draga. He completed elementary school and the first two grades of high school in Negotin, and then in 1906 he moved to Belgrade, where he completed his high school education at the Third Belgrade High School in 1910. He continued his education at the University of Belgrade, where he studied zoology and botany. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, he graduated, and after the outbreak of the World War, he interrupted his studies and joined the Serbian army as a volunteer of the Danube Artillery Regiment, and then from the end of 1914 he served in the Second Infantry Regiment "Knjaz Mihailo" (Iron Regiment). In the retreat of the Serbian army and civilians, he came to Thessaloniki via Lake Ohrid and the western part of Macedonia, and then to the island of Corfu, from where he was transferred to France in 1915 with a group of pupils and students. He continued his studies in France and in 1918 in Grenoble, under the professor of zoology Louis Léger, he passed the graduation exam and completed his studies. He continued his specialist studies in general and applied zoology at the Zoological Institute in Grenoble. He passed his doctoral exam in zoology at the University of Grenoble in June 1921. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the morphology and nutrition of juvenile cyprinids, the systematics and distribution of a new species of coccidia, a parasite of freshwater fish ("Etude sur la morphologie et la nutrition des alevins de poissons cyprinides - these principale; Systematique et repartition des Coccidies des poissons d'eau douce – these complementaire").
After returning to the country, he started working at the Zoological Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade and joined the work of a group of scientific workers who studied the living world in our waters. Already in 1921, he was appointed to the position of assistant at the Zoological Institute. The following year, he was promoted to assistant professor, and within two years, he advanced to the position of associate professor. In 1934, he obtained the title of full professor of zoology, and on February 12 of the same year, he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy. He was elected a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences on March 2, 1946, on the proposal of Živojin Đorđević, Milutin Milanković, Ivan Đaja, Antun Bilimović, and Vojislav Mišković. After the Second World War, he was appointed as a full professor at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics and held regular university classes until 1962.
He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, a corresponding member of the University of Grenoble, the University of "St. Cyril and Methodius" in Skopje, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria. He was an honorary doctor of the University of Grenoble and Nancy, as well as a corresponding member of the Academy of Nancy and the Masaryk Academy in Prague. He represented Yugoslavia in the International Society for Theoretical and Applied Limnology, served as vice-president of the International Limnological Society, and was a member of the editorial board of the most famous and oldest limnological journal, Archiv fur Hydrobiologie. He was also a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the American Ecological Society, and the Zoological Society of France, Czechoslovakia, among others. He was the editor of special editions of the Institute of Ecology and Biogeography SAN, one of the founders of the Serbian Biological Society and its first president, and an honorary president of the Society of Ecologists of Yugoslavia. He was the chief and responsible editor of the journal Archives of Biological Sciences, the founder and first editor of the journal Ecology, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Dialektika. He worked intensively on the establishment of regular classes at the faculties, the organization of scientific work, and the establishment of scientific institutions. He contributed to the establishment of the Institute of Marine Biology in Kotor, the Institute of Biology on the Vranjina Peninsula on Lake Skadar, and the Institute of Biology at the Faculties of Science and Mathematics in Sarajevo, Novi Sad, and Pristina. After the Second World War, he gathered all the scientists of that time interested in contemporary developments in biology. Together with them, he fought against the isolation and confinement of faculties and institutes, advocating for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary connections. In this atmosphere and with this idea, the Institute of Ecology and Biogeography was formed on May 31, 1947, within the Serbian Academy of Sciences, whose first manager and long-term director was Prof. Siniša Stanković. The Institute of Ecology and Biogeography and the Institute of Developmental Physiology, Genetics, and Selection were merged in 1956 to create the Biological Institute, whose long-term director was also Prof. Stanković. In 1968, the Biological Institute first changed its name to the Institute for Biological Research, and in 1974, it received the current name "Siniša Stanković" Institute for Biological Research in honor of its founder and long-time director, the outstanding scientist and academician Professor Siniša Stanković.
The development of biological sciences in our country cannot be separated from the name of Prof. Siniša Stanković. His words, theoretical thought, way of defining scientific problems, and efforts to study life as a unique and indivisible whole were widely accepted and served as a guide for a wide circle of his followers and students. Prof. Stanković was a distinguished pedagogue, a prolific writer of textbooks and scientific papers, a popularizer of science, and one of the leading contributors to the post-war development of biological sciences in our country. We will single out the book "Oksvir Života," published in 1933, in which he presents the basic principles of ecology, visionary predicts today's problems, and expresses what the term "environment" implies in our country. This book, although popularly written, contains the fundamental principles of ecology as a scientific discipline. In the textbook "Ecology of Animals" (1962), which, in terms of its content, material, and writing style, goes far beyond the scope of a university textbook, Siniša Stanković presented the idea of gradual change in environmental conditions and communities along the river course (instead of the generally accepted theory about the division of water currents into sectors), which was published much later, in 1980, by American scientists as the famous "River Continuum Concept" - Vannote et al., (1980).
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It encompasses diversity at the genetic, taxonomic and ecosystem levels. Biodiversity is important in both natural and artificial ecosystems. Today, biodiversity is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, unsustainable resource use, invasive species, pollution and global climate change.
Invasion biology studies introduced invasive species and their impact on the diversity, structure, dynamics, and functioning of the ecosystems they inhabit. Invasive species are considered one of the most significant factors that lead to a reduction in biodiversity.
Biomonitoring is the process of systematically observing, measuring, and analysing the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic responses of living organisms to environmental changes, thus providing qualitative or quantitative information on the state of the environment. It includes the use of various bioindicators, biomonitors, bioaccumulators, and biomarkers.
Bioremediation is the process in which living organisms (mainly plants, microorganisms, or plant and microbial enzymes) are used to reduce, degrade or detoxify contaminants, pollutants, and toxins in soil, water, and other elements of the environment.
Biotechnology is defined as the use of biological processes and systems (living organisms or their parts) to develop or modify different processes or products useful to humans and includes analysis of risks of its implementation (biosafety).
Ecophysiology studies the physiological processes in living beings that are a response to changes in the external environment and that are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms and interactions that underlie the adaptive strategies of organisms. The effect of climate change, the presence of various pollutants, the availability of nutrients, and habitat degradation are some of those influences that are studied.
Ecotoxicology studeies the toxic effects of chemicals on the environment. The effects are studied at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs, individual organisms, populations or ecosystems.
Urban ecology focuses on studying fundamental ecological concepts within urban areas. It examines how ecological patterns, relations and processes differ in urban environments compared to non-urban environments, and investigates the impact of urbanisation on the ecology of organisms. Additionally, urban ecology examines the relationships and interactions between ecological and social systems within urban ecosystems that are made exclusively by anthropogenic activity.
Environmental protection comprises reduction or prevention of pollution, negative impacts on the environment, damage caused to ecosystems or natural resources caused by human activities.
Proposal to establish China-Serbia Joint Laboratory for Natural Products and Drug Discovery was accepted on 20th May, 2021, which are extremely good news for Serbia and Balkan region.
The "One Belt and One Road" Joint Laboratory of Shanghai Institute Materia Medica (SIMM) and Institute for Biological Research „Siniša Stanković“, National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade (IBISS), will lead representatives from China and Serbia, Prof. Ye Yang (SIMM) and Dr. Marina Soković (IBISS).
Support for the establishment of the Laboratory was provided by the Cabinet of the Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabić, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy and the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, as well as the Institute for Medicinal Plant Research "Dr. Josif Pančić".
The concept of establishing a joint laboratory includes combining research capacities for development of natural products in various spheres, primarily in discovery of new drugs and medical products based on natural resources, while preserving biological diversity and ensuring sustainable development. Beside the optimal use of scientific research staff, work of the Laboratory would also ensure improvement of research infrastructure. Formation of China-Serbian laboratory is a big leap forward in strengthening cooperation between China and Serbia.
The formation of the Laboratory is in accordance with the already existing long-term cooperation of the Institute for Biological Research „Siniša Stanković“ with the Shanghai Institute Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science. This cooperation was especially intensified after the signing of the Memorandum of Mutual Cooperation between scientific institutes and faculties of China and Serbia, in Belgrade 11th April, 2019, on the base of which at the initiative of SIMM and IBISS, the PANDA association (Pan-Balkan Alliance of Natural Products and Drug Discovery Associations) was formed. The founding agreement was signed in Shanghai during the "Belt and Road" International Symposium of Science and Technology Innovation on 26th September, 2019, and was verified in Belgrade on 8th October, 2019. Today, members of this non-governmental, non-profit, open and international scientific alliance counts representatives from PR China and 13 Pan-Balkan countries (Republic of Serbia, Republic of Slovenia, Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Republic of Bulgaria, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Republic of Albania, Greece, Portuguese Republic, Republic of Turkey, and Romania). After opening of PANDA Secretariat in Shanghai in 2019, IBISS formed PANDA Secretariat in Belgrade 2020. Also, PANDA became one of the members of ANSO (Association of National Scientific Organization) and is the only professional association that focuses on new researches and drug development within the ANSO Association.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It encompasses diversity at the genetic, taxonomic and ecosystem levels. Biodiversity is important in both natural and artificial ecosystems. Today, biodiversity is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, unsustainable resource use, invasive species, pollution and global climate change.
Invasion biology studies introduced invasive species and their impact on the diversity, structure, dynamics, and functioning of the ecosystems they inhabit. Invasive species are considered one of the most significant factors that lead to a reduction in biodiversity.
Biomonitoring is the process of systematically observing, measuring, and analysing the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic responses of living organisms to environmental changes, thus providing qualitative or quantitative information on the state of the environment. It includes the use of various bioindicators, biomonitors, bioaccumulators, and biomarkers.
Bioremediation is the process in which living organisms (mainly plants, microorganisms, or plant and microbial enzymes) are used to reduce, degrade or detoxify contaminants, pollutants, and toxins in soil, water, and other elements of the environment.
Biotechnology is defined as the use of biological processes and systems (living organisms or their parts) to develop or modify different processes or products useful to humans and includes analysis of risks of its implementation (biosafety).
Ecophysiology studies the physiological processes in living beings that are a response to changes in the external environment and that are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms and interactions that underlie the adaptive strategies of organisms. The effect of climate change, the presence of various pollutants, the availability of nutrients, and habitat degradation are some of those influences that are studied.
Ecotoxicology studeies the toxic effects of chemicals on the environment. The effects are studied at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs, individual organisms, populations or ecosystems.
Urban ecology focuses on studying fundamental ecological concepts within urban areas. It examines how ecological patterns, relations and processes differ in urban environments compared to non-urban environments, and investigates the impact of urbanisation on the ecology of organisms. Additionally, urban ecology examines the relationships and interactions between ecological and social systems within urban ecosystems that are made exclusively by anthropogenic activity.
Environmental protection comprises reduction or prevention of pollution, negative impacts on the environment, damage caused to ecosystems or natural resources caused by human activities.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It encompasses diversity at the genetic, taxonomic and ecosystem levels. Biodiversity is important in both natural and artificial ecosystems. Today, biodiversity is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, unsustainable resource use, invasive species, pollution and global climate change.
Invasion biology studies introduced invasive species and their impact on the diversity, structure, dynamics, and functioning of the ecosystems they inhabit. Invasive species are considered one of the most significant factors that lead to a reduction in biodiversity.
Biomonitoring is the process of systematically observing, measuring, and analysing the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic responses of living organisms to environmental changes, thus providing qualitative or quantitative information on the state of the environment. It includes the use of various bioindicators, biomonitors, bioaccumulators, and biomarkers.
Bioremediation is the process in which living organisms (mainly plants, microorganisms, or plant and microbial enzymes) are used to reduce, degrade or detoxify contaminants, pollutants, and toxins in soil, water, and other elements of the environment.
Biotechnology is defined as the use of biological processes and systems (living organisms or their parts) to develop or modify different processes or products useful to humans and includes analysis of risks of its implementation (biosafety).
Ecophysiology studies the physiological processes in living beings that are a response to changes in the external environment and that are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms and interactions that underlie the adaptive strategies of organisms. The effect of climate change, the presence of various pollutants, the availability of nutrients, and habitat degradation are some of those influences that are studied.
Ecotoxicology studeies the toxic effects of chemicals on the environment. The effects are studied at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs, individual organisms, populations or ecosystems.
Urban ecology focuses on studying fundamental ecological concepts within urban areas. It examines how ecological patterns, relations and processes differ in urban environments compared to non-urban environments, and investigates the impact of urbanisation on the ecology of organisms. Additionally, urban ecology examines the relationships and interactions between ecological and social systems within urban ecosystems that are made exclusively by anthropogenic activity.
Environmental protection comprises reduction or prevention of pollution, negative impacts on the environment, damage caused to ecosystems or natural resources caused by human activities.
Presidents:
- Dr. Ljiljana Vićovac Panić, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for the Application of Nuclear Energy, University of Belgrade
Members:
- Dr. Đurđica Jovović, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Medical Research, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade
- Prof. Dr. Perica Vasiljević, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš
- Dr. Gordana Jovčić, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Medical Research, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade
- Dr. Duško Blagojević, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade
- Dr. Slavica Ninković, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade
- Dr. Pavle Pavlović, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade
Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It encompasses diversity at the genetic, taxonomic and ecosystem levels. Biodiversity is important in both natural and artificial ecosystems. Today, biodiversity is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, unsustainable resource use, invasive species, pollution and global climate change.
Invasion biology studies introduced invasive species and their impact on the diversity, structure, dynamics, and functioning of the ecosystems they inhabit. Invasive species are considered one of the most significant factors that lead to a reduction in biodiversity.
Biomonitoring is the process of systematically observing, measuring, and analysing the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and genetic responses of living organisms to environmental changes, thus providing qualitative or quantitative information on the state of the environment. It includes the use of various bioindicators, biomonitors, bioaccumulators, and biomarkers.
Bioremediation is the process in which living organisms (mainly plants, microorganisms, or plant and microbial enzymes) are used to reduce, degrade or detoxify contaminants, pollutants, and toxins in soil, water, and other elements of the environment.
Biotechnology is defined as the use of biological processes and systems (living organisms or their parts) to develop or modify different processes or products useful to humans and includes analysis of risks of its implementation (biosafety).
Ecophysiology studies the physiological processes in living beings that are a response to changes in the external environment and that are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms and interactions that underlie the adaptive strategies of organisms. The effect of climate change, the presence of various pollutants, the availability of nutrients, and habitat degradation are some of those influences that are studied.
Ecotoxicology studeies the toxic effects of chemicals on the environment. The effects are studied at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs, individual organisms, populations or ecosystems.
Urban ecology focuses on studying fundamental ecological concepts within urban areas. It examines how ecological patterns, relations and processes differ in urban environments compared to non-urban environments, and investigates the impact of urbanisation on the ecology of organisms. Additionally, urban ecology examines the relationships and interactions between ecological and social systems within urban ecosystems that are made exclusively by anthropogenic activity.
Environmental protection comprises reduction or prevention of pollution, negative impacts on the environment, damage caused to ecosystems or natural resources caused by human activities.
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