Dr. Mirjana Ćuk

Faculty of Science, Department of Biology and Ecology, Department of Botany

Mirjana Ćuk is a doctor of biological sciences, assistant professor at the Department of Biology and Ecology of the Faculty of Science in Novi Sad. She has been employed at this institution for 10 years. She is engaged in teaching at the Department of Botany, as well as in short-term and long-term scientific research projects in the fields of botany, ecology, vegetation studies and the protection of rare species and habitats.

Mirjana is Ivan's wife and Nemanja's and Uroš's mother. He always prefers nature and the countryside over the city, and lives with his family in Kisač, a village near Novi Sad. He spends his free time in the garden, his garden or on trips with his children. Mirjana is the winner of the 2018 L'Oreal UNESCO Award for Women in Science.

Scientific field: Biology and ecology, study of vegetation and protection of rare species and habitats.

Topics:
1. Protection of rare and endangered species and habitats - endangerment factors and specific solutions;
2. Invasive and allergenic species of plants;
3. Medicinal plants.

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Dr. Vesna Tumbas Šaponjac

Faculty of Technology, Novi Sad, Department of Applied and Engineering Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Vesna Tumbas Šaponjac, associate professor at the Faculty of Technology, was born in Subotica. She completed her basic master's and doctoral studies at the Faculty of Technology in Novi Sad, majoring in Pharmaceutical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, where she got a job after completing her basic studies. To date, she has been engaged in teaching and holding laboratory exercises in the following subjects: Organic Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Quality Control of Additives and Aromas, Antioxidants in the Food, Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry, Instrumental Analysis of Pharmaceutical Products, Food Analysis, Chemistry of Grapes and wines, Modern methods of food authenticity control, Chemistry of free radicals. She is the winner of the "Award for the most cited scientists in AP Vojvodina" for 2010 and the annual award "Dr. Zoran Đinđić for a young scientist and researcher" for 2011. He likes to travel and help animals. She is the mother of a lively two-year-old boy.

Scientific field: Chemistry.

Topics:
1. Functional food;
2. Healthy food;
3. Antioxidants.

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Dr. Marija Lesjak

Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection

Dr. Marija Lesjak is an associate professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad. She received her doctorate twice. The first time at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics of the University of Novi Sad in the field of biochemistry (2011), and the second time at the University College London, Great Britain, in the field of molecular biology (2015). Dr. Lesjak's scientific work is focused on the evaluation of the biological potential of plants and plant compounds in in vivo and in vitro systems with the aim of their application in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries. She is the winner of several prestigious awards for her scientific work in Serbia and abroad: UCL Overseas Research Scholarship for doctoral studies in Great Britain (2011-2014); dr. Willmar Schwabe Awards for Young Researchers in the Field of Medicinal Plant Research (2011); Award for the best young researcher at the Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad (2015); Scholarship "Get started for science" awarded by Philip Morris in cooperation with the Center for Developmental Leadership in Serbia (2016); L'Oréal-UNESCO National Fellowship for Women in Science (2016); Special Award "Dr. Zoran Đinđić" for a young scientist and researcher for overall contribution to science awarded by the University of Novi Sad (2018). He is the author of numerous scientific publications in renowned international journals. Wanting to give more meaning to her scientific results, in 2018 she started to engage in innovative entrepreneurship and devoted herself to the development of commercial products that are based on scientific facts. These products aim to help people with various conditions and diseases using the power of science and nature. So far, she has founded two start-ups, HerbElix and FeJuice, with which she won many prestigious domestic and international awards in the field of entrepreneurship development support. .

Scientific field: Biochemistry of medicinal plants.

Topics:
1. Science and business;
2. What qualities adorn a successful scientist;
3. How medicinal plants really are.

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Dr. Ana Tomas Petrović

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology

Ana Tomas Petrović is a doctor of medicine and an assistant at the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad in 2013.

In the same year, she enrolled in doctoral studies and soon received the award for the best student of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad, for exceptional results in scientific research work. A new scientific focus is on research in the field of rational use of drugs, primarily antibiotics, from the perspective of prescribers, other populations and methods of optimizing the dosage of these groups of drugs with the aim

maximizing the therapeutic effect of taking drugs while reducing the possibility of resistance. He continuously improves both in the country and abroad and works intensively on the development of students' interest in science.

She is the author and co-author of 20 papers in journals on the SCI list, five papers in journals of other categories, one chapter in a thematic collection, and she has presented her research at more than ten international conferences.

Ana is the recipient of the 2020 L'Oréal UNESCO Women in Science Award

Scientific field: Medicine, pharmacology.

Topics:
1. The process of discovering new drugs;
2. Antibiotics and bacterial resistance;
3. Taking medicines without consulting a doctor - benefits and risks.

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Dr. Jovana Grahovac

Faculty of Technology Novi Sad, Department of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering

Asst. Dr. Jovana Grahovac is an associate professor of biotechnology at the Faculty of Technology in Novi Sad. The "Dr. Zoran Đinđić" award for the best young researcher and the L'Oréal-UNESCO national award "For women in science" marked her career, but she is most proud of her students' successes. Her biggest professional wish is that the bioprocess solutions developed by the biochemical engineering group at the Faculty of Technology come to life in the economy. He is a member of an interdisciplinary team that will present an approach to protect the environment and generate profit at the same time as part of the "MICRObiological solutions to MACRO problems" workshop. He currently manages the BioSolAfla project, which aims to contribute to food safety through the development of biotechnological production of corn protection preparations. Her daughter and two sons were given the most important role by her birth. He likes to experiment in the kitchen and has philosophical conversations with his wife and friends over a glass of good wine.

Scientific field: Technological engineering. Biotechnology.

Topics:
1. How to use microorganisms to create valuable products from waste;
2. How to make production technology sustainable and thus contribute to the replacement of chemical preparations with preparations based on microorganisms;
3. Biofuels - how they are produced and how much their application really contributes to reducing the effects of the greenhouse;

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Dr. Mirjana Ljubojević

Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

Dr. Mirjana Ljubojević, born Ikrašev, Doctor of Biotechnical Sciences, is an associate professor for the narrower scientific field of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad. She defended her doctoral dissertation at the same faculty in 2012 in the field of plant breeding at the age of 28.

She completed her post-doctoral specialization at Michigan State University for five months, and she had several shorter specializations in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Croatia, Romania and the Netherlands.

So far, she has been involved in two technological projects of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, three projects of the Provincial Secretariat for Sports and Youth and Higher Education and Scientific Research, one COST action and one Horizon2020 project. In addition to the prestigious L'Oreal UNESCO Award for Women in Science for 2018, he is the winner of the "Move for Science" and "Dr. Zoran Djindjic for Young Scientist and Researcher" awards. Since 2018, he has been the director of the Institute for Fruit Growing, Viticulture, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. He is a member of the Scientific Fruit Society of Serbia.

She is married and a mother of two children, with whom she likes to play cards, play Monopoly, sink ships, and during breaks bake and decorate gingerbread or decoupage items for countless humanitarian actions and bazaars.

A lover of nature and the planet Earth, because horticulture is not just an occupation but a style and philosophy of life. An eternal dreamer who believes that the cities of the 21st century will be green, and the greenery in the very center of the city will be edible.

Scientific field: Horticulture and landscape architecture

Topics:
1. Urban agriculture;
2. Breeding of horticultural plants;
3. Use instead of eradication of invasive and allergenic species.

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Snezana Papović, Ph.D

Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection

Snežana Papović was born in Novi Sad, where she graduated from elementary school "Kosta Trifković" and high school "Svetozar Marković" with excellent results. She finished her basic chemistry studies at PMF-UNS, majoring in general chemistry, in 2012, after which she enrolled in doctoral studies in chemistry at the same faculty.

During her undergraduate studies, she was a scholarship recipient of the Ministry of Education and the Fund for Young Talents. In addition, in 2012, she was awarded a Special Award by the Serbian Chemical Society for exceptional success during her studies. He is the winner of 4 awards for outstanding success during basic academic and master's academic studies awarded by the University of Novi Sad (2009 - 2013). During her doctoral studies, in the period 2014-2016, she was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

During her doctoral studies, in 2015, she spent three months at the University of Ljubljana as a scholarship holder of the COST action called "Exchange on Ionic Liquids".

She won first prize at the 51st SHD Conference for the best presented poster, IUPAC Poster Prize Certificate.

Since February 2013, she has been engaged in teaching at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Environmental Protection of the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad.

Snezana is the winner of the award "Dr. Zoran Đinđić for young scientist and researcher" for 2019.

Scientific field: Analytical and physical chemistry.

Topics:
1. What would a chemist do to prevent cell phone batteries from overheating?
2. Challenges when using lithium-ion batteries in electric cars,
3. What exactly is in the cosmetic products we use every day?

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Dr. Jovana Nikolov

Faculty of Science, Department of Physics

Jovana Nikolov is an associate professor at the Department of Nuclear Physics, PMF in Novi Sad. Her spirit of research has not left her since she was young, in high school she attended a physics seminar in Petnica, which turned into an indescribable love for this science. She did her doctoral dissertation within the ISOLDE collaboration at CERN. He continues to participate in experiments dealing with the investigation of the structure of the nucleus. He deals much more with applied nuclear physics, measurement of natural radioactivity and development of new methods and techniques for detection of various radionuclides. Her special passion is nuclear forensics, in recent years she devotes a significant part of her time to the development of this field in our country. She likes to travel and meet new people, which allowed her to get involved in several international projects. She is a mother of two sons, with whom she prefers to spend her free time. Jovana is the winner of the "Dr. Zoran Đinđić award for young scientist and researcher" for 2013.

Scientific field: Physics, nuclear physics.

Topics:
1. Radioactivity and ionizing radiation;
2. Nuclear forensics;
3. The role of physicists and physics in medicine

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Dr. Jelena Aleksić

Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science

Jelena Aleksic, full professor of Faculty of Arts in Novi Sad, born in 1979, deals with mathematical analysis, especially the tools of measure theory and functional analysis in partial differential equations. She received her master's degree on the subject of equivalence of distinct and general solutions of conservation laws in 2006, the subject of her PhD was conservation laws in heterogeneous environments in 2009, and she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO scholarship for young scientists for the project Measures of Defects and the Wavefront in 2015.

Scientific field: Mathematics.

Topics: What jobs are mathematicians engaged in in industry, economy, and at the Olympic Games, and what exactly do they do there?