Center for Biosystems

Center for Information Technologies

Center for Innovation and Business Development

Project goal: The overall goal of the project is to strengthen the scientific, technological, and research management capacities of BIOS by advancing data-driven and participatory approaches to understanding ecosystem processes, delivering efficient spatial and socio-economic solutions to environmental challenges, and fostering the professional development of researchers and staff within an international research and innovation network.
About the project: SONATA is a three-year European research and capacity building project coordinated by the BioSense Institute (University of Novi Sad), aiming to strengthen the uptake of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in land-use planning and environmental decision-making through advanced data integration and digital technologies. The project addresses key societal and environmental challenges, including climate change, droughts, and land degradation, by integrating biodiversity, soil health, and land-use/land-cover (LULC) data. SONATA develops and applies innovative methodologies for habitat mapping, ecosystem monitoring, and ecosystem services assessment, leveraging big data, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and spatial analysis. A central element of SONATA is the Living Lab approach, which ensures early and continuous engagement of researchers, policymakers, planners, land managers, and local communities. This co-creation framework strengthens the science–policy–practice interface, enhances stakeholder capacities, and supports the effective implementation of NBS across sectors and scales.
BioSense role on the project: BioSense is the project coordinator and leads two work packages – WP5 and WP6.
Work Package 5 (WP5) &#8211; ensures the visibility and impact of the SONATA project through the implementation of effective communication, networking, dissemination, and sustainable collaboration activities.
Work Package 6 (WP6) &#8211; ensures the timely and high-quality delivery of project outputs, effective communication within the consortium, risk management, and the achievement of project objectives within the available resources.

Research associate in the field of natural/mathematical sciences - biology

Tijana Nikolić Lugonja

Research associate

Maja Knežević

Ivana Pejović is a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad (UNSPMF), and a junior researcher at the BioSense Institute. Her research focuses on the metagenomic analysis of soil microbiomes, with particular emphasis on the diversity and functional role of microorganisms in natural and semi-natural habitats.

She completed her Master's studies in Molecular Biology at UNSPMF and was also a scholarship holder of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC). Ivana has extensive experience in international academic cooperation, gained through her long-standing involvement with the Office for International Cooperation and Projects at UNSPMF.

Ivana Pejović

Sandra Jovanović earned her Master's degree in Ecology at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Her professional focus is on nature and biodiversity conservation, with a strong emphasis on nature-based solutions. In her work, she places special importance on collaboration with key stakeholders in nature conservation, from institutions to local communities.

Sandra has dedicated the past ten years of her career to resolving human-wildlife conflicts, with a particular focus on illegal hunting and bird poisoning. She gained her professional experience in the civil sector, working with and alongside some of the most prominent environmental and nature conservation organizations in Serbia. Over the years, she has held a variety of roles—from field researcher and desk analyst to national and international project coordinator, eventually reaching executive-level management positions.

She currently sees her work as a mission to ensure the well-being of both people and biodiversity.

Sandra Jovanović

Dr. Sreten Terzić is a scientific advisor (principal research fellow) at the Center for Biosystems. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade and earned his doctorate in 2010 in the field of genetics and plant breeding at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad. Before joining the BioSense, Sreten worked at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad on sunflower genetic resources and their application in breeding cultivated sunflowers, as well as examining plant-pollinator interactions to improve agricultural production. He completed further training in plant genetic resources and intellectual property in Sweden (SLU) with a scholarship from the Swedish International Development Agency and support from Bioversity International. He spent two years at the company LoginEKO, where he worked on the agroecological aspects of organic plant production with a focus on agroforestry and soil health. He participated in several projects, including coordinating a subproject in one national project. From 2012 to 2022, he was a member of the national working group for plant genetic resources. He was deputy editor of the national journal "Field and Vegetable Crops" from 2012 to 2022 and reviewed papers in several international journals. He was a member of scientific committees for international conferences on sunflowers in 2011, 2022, and 2024, as well as the organizing committee in 2022. He has given invited lectures at several conferences. His research interests are focused on optimizing ecosystem services to increase the sustainability of food production and environmental conservation.

Sreten Terzić

Maria Kireeva works as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Information Technologies, BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad. She obtained her PhD degree in Hydrology, Water Resources, and Geochemistry from Lomonosov Moscow State University in April 2013. Her main research interests are connected with hydrological extremes – droughts and floods, assessments of surface and groundwater resources under changing climate, incorporating machine learning methods and data-driven models in hydrological surveys and forecasts, analyses of hydrological behavior on different scales, creating new algorithms, and software development in geospatial analyses. Maria also focuses on water management in drought conditions and optimizing river runoff regulation.
Between July 2013 and September 2023, Maria was employed at Lomonosov Moscow State University, initially as a Junior Researcher and since 2020 as an Associate Professor at the Land Hydrology Department, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia. During this period, she participated in more than 10 international and Russian national projects as a project leader, principal investigator, and participant. Her work spanned civil protection from hydrological hazards, water resources management in non-stationary climates, Big Data analyses, and implementing machine learning methods for risk management and data-driven modeling. Maria's contributions resulted in co-authorship in high-impact publications in Science (2017) and Nature (2019, 2022). Additionally, Maria was invited to the Water Sustainability Commission (IGU) and co-organized sessions at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) from 2018 to 2020. She actively participated in the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Panta Rhei and FRIEND initiatives.
Additionally, Maria has extensive field experience. She organized several expeditions for hydrological engineering surveys in the Arctic and the Far East of Russia, as well as field schools for students of the Land Hydrology department across the Europe and Russia. Currently, Maria's main research interests include data-driven modeling of hydrological hazards, particularly droughts and their consequences. She is focused on creating early warning systems and algorithms for optimizing water resource management and runoff regulation, as well as studying the interaction between groundwater and surface water in a non-stationary climate.

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Kireeva">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria-Kireeva</a>

Maria Kireeva

Vladislava Grbović works as a Project Manager within the Center for Innovation and Business Development at the BioSense Institute. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Business in Services, and a master's degree from the Faculty of Tourism, where she specialized in Eco Villages. With a rich professional background, she has several years of experience working with international corporations. Throughout her career path, she has actively participated in the planning, application, and execution of both national and international projects, taken charge of event organization and support, and engaged in collaborative efforts with the business sector. Since joining the BioSense Institute's Center for Innovation and Business Development in May 2023, she has been working on the implementation of large-scale Horizon Europe projects.

Vladislava Grbović

Kristina Kalkan is a Research Assistant at BioSense Institute. She received her PhD in 2021. at Faculty of Sciences from the University of Novi Sad. The topic of her PhD was the estimation of soil erosion rates using fallout radionuclides. She is interested in soil science (modeling soil erosion rates, soil radioactivity, soil magnetic susceptibility), geomorphology, climate, and radioecology research, radio aerosols and natural hazards.  Also, she uses GIS, Remote Sensing, and Drone Imagery for analytical and visualization purposes.

Kristina Kalkan

Maja Knežević is a researcher in the Centre for Biosystems within BioSense Institute. She holds a PhD degree in ecology from the Department of biology and Ecology of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Novi Sad since 2021. She is actively involved in biodiversity conservation of seminatural landscapes, such as Vojvodina. Much of her work is focused on the endangered European ground squirrel, but she is involved in studies of biodiversity of other groups of organisms, such as birds and hoverflies. Since November 2021, she is a member of eLTER network and the coordinator of eLTER site „Sunčani salaš“ at the Subotička peščara (Subotica sands) nature reserve.

Jelena Jović is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Biosystems within the BioSense Institute. During her PhD research on the characterisation of novel pharmaceutical formulations of traditional antidiabetic agents at the Medical faculty, University of Novi Sad, she gained experience in performing pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies. Currently, her second PhD thesis, conducted at the Technical University of Munich, is pending submission. There, her research was focused on investigating the role of intestinal microbiota in inflamatory bowel disease pathogenesis, using both traditional microbiological techniques and next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. At the BioSense Institute, her research interests are directed towards soil microbiome and its applications in sustainable agriculture.

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Jelena Jović

Dr Sonja Tarčak is a research associate within the Centre for BioSystems at the BioSense Institute. She received a PhD degree from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad in 2019 on the subject of ecological effectiveness of forest management in protected areas in Serbia. Before her PhD, she worked as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie early stage researcher on the project „GoverNat“, through which she was trained for interdisciplinary research on natural resource governance. Her research is focused on forest ecosystems, particularly functioning and response of forests to disturbances and environmental changes, and application of remote sensing in forest ecology. She has also conducted research on forest and biodiversity governance in Slovak Republic and Serbia (qualitative and experimental research). She worked on projects oriented on the evaluation of protected areas effectiveness and conservation planning, ecosystem services and policy impact assessment. She was involved in 3 EU projects, 1 national and several smaller projects. Her main fields of interest are: forest management and governance, functional ecology of forests, remote sensing of forests.

Sonja Tarčak

Aleksandra Gašić Čolić was born on the 20th of August 1988 in Novi Sad, Serbia. After finishing high school "Svetozar Markovic" in Novi Sad, she graduated from the Faculty of Law. Within the organization of the Government of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, from January to July 2013, Aleksandra participated in the University program of work practice with the Protector of Citizens - Provincial Ombudsman. From September 2015 she started to work at BioSense Institute - Institute for Research and Development of Information Technologies in Biosystems, in the Secretariat of the Institute.

Aleksandra Gašić Čolić

Sanja Brdar is a senior researcher and head of the Centre for Information Technologies at BioSense Institute. She received a PhD degree from the University of Novi Sad in 2016. Prior to starting her PhD studies, she spent two years working in the software industry with a major in databases design and development. In 2010 she was awarded a ten-month Basileus fellowship for joining the Bioinformatics Laboratory at University of Ljubljana which set the foundations for the PhD thesis on data/knowledge fusion in bioinformatics. Currently, she is actively involved in many projects including H2020 Antares, Dragon, Bestmap and Flexigrobots and teaches two master level courses at Faculty of Sciences. Her research interests include machine learning, explainable AI and bioinformatics. She works on ensemble methods, data fusion, clustering, and predictive modelling with applications in biology, agriculture, environmental sciences and health. She enjoys participating in worldwide data science challenges and with the team of researchers made significant results: placed third in Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (2012), finalist of Orange, France, Data for Development Challenge (2013), finalist/winner/third place of Syngenta Crop Challenge (2016, 2017, 2019) and finalist of UNDP Depopulation challenge (2020).

Sanja Brdar

Predrag Lugonja is a researcher at BioSense Institute. He graduated from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering. He is currently in the final year of his PhD studies at the Faculty of Technical Sciences. He has been working in the fields of GIS and remote sensing

Predrag Lugonja

Nikola Obrenović works as a Senior Researcher at the Center for Information Technologies, BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Computing and Control Engineering from the University of Novi Sad, in October 2015. His doctoral studies and thesis incorporated areas of model-driven database development, rapid prototyping and automatic design verification. Between July 2017 and June 2019, Nikola was employed as Postdoctoral researcher at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. There, Nikola participated in several EU and Swiss national projects in the fields of mathematical optimization and operations research. Before joining BioSense Institute in July 2019, Nikola held a position of an Assistant Professor at the Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Currently, his research interests include mathematical optimization, operations research, machine learning, databases, and model-driven software engineering.
Additionally, Nikola Obrenović has strong practical experience in software industry. He has been employed as a software engineer and architect at several international software companies and independent projects. Most notably, he was a software architect for project “JourneyTree – Advanced Customer Analytics Made Simple”, funded by DataPitch program, under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

Nikola Obrenović

Mirjana Radulović is a Junior Research Assistant at the BioSense Institute with interests in remote sensing, geoinformatics, water resource management, agriculture, and the environment. She is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student of Geosciences at the Faculty of Sciences, the University of Novi Sad where she also received her BSc (2017) and MSc (2018) in the field of hydrology and geoinformatics. During master studies, she spent five months at the Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic) where she studied as a scholarship holder of the Erasmus+ Exchange Program. In March 2019 she joined the BioSense Institute where she works on applying geographical information systems and remote sensing tehnology for monitoring of irrigation, drought monitoring, crop monitoring, land use classification, groundwater monitoring, etc. She participates in several national and international projects related to these topics. Mirjana authored and co-authored several scientific papers and attended several scientific conferences.

Mirjana Radulović

Miloš Pandžić is a Junior Research Assistant whose interest includes several research fields: Earth observation, remote sensing, image processing and data analytics. He is currently enrolled as a PhD student of Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, where he also obtained his master and bachelor degree. In 2015 he received scholarship from the Government of Austria (OeAD) and spent 4 months at TU Vienna where he analysed geometric quality of Sentinel-2 satellite multispectral images. Outcome of this work was his master thesis. After graduation he worked at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) on several projects funded by Academy of Finland and European Space Agency (ESA). His main occupation was segmentation and change detection in satellite imagery related to agricultural activity, urbanization and deforestation. In 2018 he joined BioSense Institute where he works on data fusion of optical and radar images for yield prediction, crop classification, crop monitoring, etc. He is involved in several national and international projects including Antares, Cybele, Dragon, PARSEC, agROBOfood.

Miloš Pandžić

Miljana Marković is a Research Trainee at the BioSense Institute and a Ph.D. student of Geosciences at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. She obtained a BSc (2017) and a MSc (2018) degree in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. During the studies, she was a scholarships holder awarded by the Republic of Serbia Young Talents' Fund ''Dositeja'' for the academic years 2016/17 and 2018/19. In her final theses, she researched different possibilities of applying the GPR technology in order to create underground structure models. After finishing studies, she spent two years working in a geodetic company as a geodetic engineer. In late 2020, Miljana enrolled in Ph.D. studies and since March 2021, she has been working at the BioSense Institute with research focused on applying remote sensing and geographical information systems in the field of agriculture. Currently, she participates in BESTMAP project.

MIljana Marković

Branislav Živaljević is a PhD student at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. He graduated in 2017, and as of 2019 holds a MSc in geography and geoinformatics. In his end papers he wrote about processes in geomorphology and climatology and their combined impact on natural environment. During his master's studies he spent a month in China where he participated in Global Summer School Program organized on behalf the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai where he was an attendee of the course Knowing Satellite by CubeSat. As a student intern he occasionally worked at ''Here Technologies''. In 2020 he enrolled PhD studies, and as of march 2021 works at the BioSense Institute as a research trainee at the Center for Information Technologies.

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Branislav Živaljević

Branislav Pejak is a PhD student of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, the University of Novi Sad, where he also received his BSc (2017) and MSc (2018) in the field of Biomedical Engineering. During his bachelor and master studies, he held a scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Republic of Serbia. Since March 2018, Branislav has been working as a Junior Research Assistant at the Center for Information Technologies, BioSense Institute. His main research is data analytics on satellite images. Currently he is working on crop classification and crop yield prediction using time series of multispectral images and GAN machine learning framework. Within the project he is also working on many practical usages of ICT in agriculture such as smart soil sampling and fertilization, irrigation zone mapping, grain yield and protein content prediction etc. He is actively involved in many Horizon 2020 projects including Antares, Cybele, Dragon and AgRoboFood.

Branislav Pejak

Tijana Nikolić is senior researcher at BioSense Institute with a PhD in ecology from the Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad. She works with spatial prioritization of natural and semi natural habitat in agricultural landscapes, needed to protect agro biodiversity, improve soil quality and secure food production. The main focus is on integrated landscape management that entail food production, biodiversity and climate change across sectors and stakeholders to meet the range of short and long term societal needs.

Dr Marija Miličić is a Senior Research Associate at the BioSense Institute, working within the Centre for Biosystems. She received her PhD in Ecology in 2017 from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Her research focuses on the ecology, functional diversity and conservation of hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae), one of the most important groups of insect pollinators and biological control agents in terrestrial ecosystems. She studies species distributions, ecological traits and the responses of pollinators to environmental pressures such as agricultural intensification and climate change. She is actively involved in international initiatives aimed at compiling and harmonising large-scale trait and distributional datasets on European pollinators, supporting biodiversity assessments, ecological modelling and conservation planning. Marija is a member of the Advisory Committee of the IUCN Hoverfly Specialist Group.

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Marija MIličić

Dr Ljiljana Šašič Zorić is a senior researcher at the BioSense Institute with expertise in genetics. Ljiljana received PhD degree in biology in 2018 from Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. She is particularly oriented on application of mitochondrial and nuclear sequence based molecular markers in genetic analyses, identification and delimitation of European insect species. Since 2016, she has been collaborating with DNA laboratory of Finnish museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki where she gained additional experience in molecular taxonomy of hoverflies. In 2017, her research concerning influence of endosymbiotic bacteria on evolutionary dynamic of mitochondrial genes was granted by the Entomological Society of Helsinki and the Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica. Her project "Genomic approach in hoverfly biodiversity assessment - next-generation DNA barcoding" was awarded the 100-year anniversary grant of the Entomological Society of Helsinki in 2019. Ljiljana is informal member of the genetic research team at Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, as well as coordinator of research activities at the Valentis Center for Behavioral Research, Bačka Palanka.

Ljiljana Šašić Zorić

Isidora Simović is a senior researcher at BioSense Institute. She did her PhD at the Faculty of Forestry in Belgrade, observing morphology, phenology, and anatomy of trees in various habitats. She is currently working on application of remote sensing techniques in the monitoring of climate and anthropogenic impacts on natural and urban ecosystems.

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Isidora Simović

Dr Andrijana Andrić is employed at the Center for Biosystems of the BioSense Institute, as Senior Research Associate in the field of Biological Sciences. She completed her studies (PhD in Biological Sciences) in 2015 at the Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. She is primarily engaged in research on biology and ecology of insect pollinators and their host plants, with a focus on phytophagous hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) and their understudied developmental stages.

Andrijana Andric

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HORIZONT-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02-02 – Green Deal

SONATA

Centar za Biosisteme

Centar za Informacione Tehnologije

Centar za inovacije i razvoj poslovanja

Cilj projekta: Opšti cilj projekta je jačanje naučnih, tehnoloških i upravljačkih kapaciteta BIOS-a kroz unapređenje data-driven i participativnih pristupa u razumevanju ekosistemskih procesa, razvoj efikasnih prostornih i socio-ekonomskih rešenja za konkretne probleme u oblasti zaštite životne sredine, kao i podsticanje profesionalnog razvoja istraživača i zaposlenih u okviru međunarodne istraživačko-inovacione mreže.
O projektu: SONATA je trogodišnji evropski projekat koji koordinira BioSense institut (Univerzitet u Novom Sadu). Projekat ima za cilj jačanje primene rešenja zasnovanih na prirodi (NBS) u prostornom planiranju i donošenju odluka unutar intezivno korišćenog poljoprovrednog predela, kroz naprednu integraciju domenskog znanja, podataka i digitalne tehnologije. Projekat se bavi ključnim društvenim i ekološkim izazovima, uključujući klimatske promene, suše i degradaciju, kroz integraciju podataka o biodiverzitetu, zdravlju zemljišta i korišćenju predela (LULC). SONATA razvija i primenjuje inovativne metodologije za mapiranje staništa, monitoring i ekosistema i procenu ekosistemskih usluga, koristeći velike skupove podataka, senzore (IoT), veštačku inteligenciju (AI) i prostorne analize. Centralni element projekta je Living Lab pristup, koji omogućava rano i kontinuirano uključivanje istraživača, donosilaca odluka, planera, upravljače i lokalnih zajednica. Ovaj okvir zajedničkog kreiranja jača povezanost nauke, politike i prakse, unapređuje kapacitete aktera i podržava efikasnu primenu NBS rešenja u različitim sektorima i na različitim prostornim nivoima.
Uloga BioSens-a na projektu: BioSens je koordinator projekta i vodeći partner na dva radna paketa – WP5 i WP6.
Radni paket 5 (WP5) &#8211; obezbeđuje vidljivost i uticaj projekta SONATA kroz sprovođenje efikasnih aktivnosti komunikacije, umrežavanja, promocije i održivog razvoja saradnji.
Radni paket 6 (WP6) &#8211; obezbeđuje pravovremenu i kvalitetnu realizaciju projektnih rezultata (deliverables), efikasnu komunikaciju unutar konzorcijuma, upravljanje rizicima, kao i ostvarivanje ciljeva projekta u okviru raspoloživih resursa.

Naučni saradnik u oblasti prirodno-matematičke nauke - biologija

Naučni saradnik

Ivana Pejović je doktorand molekularne biologije na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu (UNSPMF) i istraživač-pripravnik na BioSense Institutu. Njeno istraživanje fokusira se na metagenomsku analizu mikrobioma zemljišta, sa posebnim akcentom na diverzitet i funkcionalnu ulogu mikroorganizama u prirodnim i poluprirodnim staništima.

Master studije iz molekularne biologije završila je na UNSPMF, a takođe je bila stipendista Erasmus Mundus zajedničkog master programa Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC). Ivana ima značajno iskustvo u međunarodnoj akademskoj saradnji, stečeno kroz dugogodišnji angažman u Kancelariji za međunarodnu saradnju i projekte na UNSPMF.

Masterirala je na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom  Sadu u oblasti ekologije. Profesionalno se bavi zaštitom prirode i  biodiverziteta, sa usmerenjem na rešenja zasnovana na prirodi. U svom radu posebnu pažnju posvećuje saradnji sa ključnim akterima u zaštiti prirode, od institucija do lokalne zajednice.

Sandra je svoj desetogodišnji rad posvetila rešavanju konflikata između ljudi i životinja, sa akcentom na nezakonit lov i trovanje ptica. Profesionalno iskustvo sticala je u civilnom sektoru radeći i sarađujući sa nekim od najznačajnijih ekspertskih organizacija za zaštitu prirode I životne sredine u Srbiji. Prošla je sve nivoe rada od istraživača na terenu, desk analitičara, koordinatora nacionalnih i međunarodnih  projekata do upravljanja organizacijom sa menadžerske pozicije. Trenutno svoj rad vidi kao misiju obezbeđivanja dobrobiti za ljude I biodiverzitet.

Dr Sreten Terzić je naučni savetnik u Centru za biosisteme. Osnovne studije je završio na Biološkom fakultetu u Beogradu, a doktorirao 2010. u oblasti genetike i oplemenjivanja biljaka na Poljoprivrednom fakultetu u Novom Sadu. Pre dolaska u Biosens, radio je u Institutu za ratarstvo i povrtarstvo u Novom Sadu na biljnim genetičkim resursima suncokreta i njihovoj primeni u oplemenjivanju gajenog suncokreta kao i na ispitivanju interakcije biljaka i oprašivača radi unapređenja poljoprivredne proizvodnje. Usavršavanja u oblasti biljnih genetičkih resursa i intelektualne svojine je obavio u Švedskoj (SLU) uz stipendiju Švedske agencije za razvoj i podršku od Bioversity International. Proveo je dve godine u kompaniji LoginEKO, gde je radio na agroekološkim aspektima organske biljne proizvodnje sa fokusom na agrošumarstvo i zdravlje zemljišta. Učestvovao je u više projekata, od čega je koordinisao potprojekat u jednom nacionalnom projektu. Od 2012. do 2022. je bio član nacionalne radne grupe za biljne genetičke resurse. Bio je zamenik urednika nacionalnog časopisa Ratarstvo i povrtarstvo 2012-2022 i recenzirao je radove u više međunarodnih časopisa. Bio je član naučnih odbora međunarodnih konferencija o suncokretu 2011, 2022. i 2024, kao i organizacionog odbora 2022. Na više konferencija je održao predavanja po pozivu. Njegova istraživačka interesovanja su usmerena ka optimizaciji ekosistemskih servisa radi povećanja održivosti proizvodnje hrane i očuvanja životne sredine.

Maria Kireeva radi kao stariji istraživač u Centru za informacione tehnologije Instituta BioSense Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Doktorirala je iz oblasti hidrologije, vodnih resursa i geohemije na Moskovskom državnom univerzitetu Lomonosov u aprilu 2013. Njena glavna istraživačka interesovanja su povezana sa hidrološkim ekstremima – sušama i poplavama, procenom resursa površinskih i podzemnih voda u uslovima promene klime, uključujući metode mašinskog učenja. i modeli zasnovani na podacima u hidrološkim istraživanjima i prognozama, analizama hidrološkog ponašanja na različitim skalama, kreiranju novih algoritama i razvoju softvera u geoprostornim analizama. Maria se takođe fokusira na upravljanje vodama u uslovima suše i optimizaciju regulacije rečnog oticaja.

Od jula 2013. do septembra 2023. Maria je bila zaposlena na Moskovskom državnom univerzitetu Lomonosov, prvo kao mlađi istraživač, a od 2020. godine kao vanredni profesor na Odseku za hidrologiju zemljišta Geografskog fakulteta u Moskvi, Rusija. Tokom ovog perioda, učestvovala je u više od 10 međunarodnih i ruskih nacionalnih projekata kao vođa projekta, glavni istraživač i učesnik. Njen rad obuhvatao je civilnu zaštitu od hidroloških opasnosti, upravljanje vodenim resursima u nestacionarnim klimatskim uslovima, analizu velikih podataka (big data) i primenu metoda mašinskog učenja za upravljanje rizikom i modeliranje zasnovano na podacima. Mariini doprinosi rezultirali su koautorstvom u publikacijama sa velikim uticajem u časopisima Nauka (2017) i Priroda (2019, 2022). Pored toga, Maria je bila pozvana u Komisiju za održivost vode (IGU) i koorganizovala je sesije u Evropskoj uniji geonauka (EGU) od 2018. do 2020. Aktivno je učestvovala u inicijativama Panta Rhei i FRIEND Međunarodnog udruženja hidroloških nauka (IAHS).

Pored toga, Maria ima veliko iskustvo na terenu. Organizovala je nekoliko ekspedicija za hidrološka istraživanja na Arktiku i Dalekom istoku Rusije, kao i terenske škole za studente kopnene hidrologije širom Evrope i Rusije. Trenutno, Mariin glavni istraživački interes obuhvata modeliranje hidroloških opasnosti, posebno suša i njihovih posledica, zasnovano na podacima. Fokusirana je na kreiranje sistema ranog upozorenja i algoritama za optimizaciju upravljanja vodnim resursima i regulacije oticanja, kao i na proučavanje interakcije između podzemnih i površinskih voda u nestacionarnoj klimi.

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Vladislava Grbović radi kao menadžer projekata u Centru za inovacije i razvoj poslovanja Instituta BioSense. Poseduje diplomu osnovnih studija sa Univerziteta u Novom Sadu, Fakulteta za uslužni biznis i master diplomu sa Fakulteta za turizam, sa specijalizacijom za Eko sela. Ima višegodišnje profesionalno iskustvo rada u međunarodnim korporacijama. Tokom svog profesionalnog puta, aktivno je učestvovala u planiranju, prijavi i realizaciji nacionalnih i međunarodnih projekata, bila je odgovorna za organizaciju događaja i pružanje podrške, te se angažovala u saradnji sa sektorom privrede. Od maja 2023. godine, otkako se pridružila Centru za inovacije i razvoj poslovanja Instituta BioSense, aktivno radi na implementaciji projekata u okviru programa Horizon Europe.

Kristina Kalkan je istraživac-saradnik na Institutu BioSens. Doktorirala je 2021. godine na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu na temu kvantifikacije erozivnih procesa zemljišta primenom fallout radionuklida. Njena istraživanja su usmerena na pedologiju (modeliranje erozivnih procesa zemljišta, radioaktivnost zemljišta, magnetna susceptibilnost zemljišta), geomorfologiju, klimatologiju, radioekologiju, radioaerosole, prirodne nepogode i hazarde. Pored navedenog, koristi GIS, daljinsku detekciju i dronove za potrebe prostorne analize i vizualizacije.

Maja Knežević je zaposlena na poziciji istraživač- saradnik u Centru za biosisteme Instituta Biosens. Doktorirala je ekologiju na Departmanu za biologiju i ekologiju Prirodno-matematičkog fakulteta Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 2021. godine. Aktivno se bavi očuvanjem biodiverziteta otvorenih travnatih staništa poluprirodnih predela, koji imaju važnu ulogu u proizvodnji hrane, poput Vojvodine. U svom radu, najviše je posvećena ugroženoj (evropskoj) tekunici, ali aktivno se bavi i istraživanjem biodiverziteta drugih grupa organizama, uključujući ptice i osolike muve. Od novembra 2021, član je eLTER mreže i koordinator eLTER sajta „Sunčani salaš“ untar Parka prirode Subotička peščara.

Jelena Jović je zaposlena na poziciji naučnog saradnika Centra za biosisteme na Institutu BioSens. Doktorirala je na Medicinskom fakultetu, na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu na temu upotrebe novih farmaceutsko-tehnoloških formulacija tradicionalnih lekova u terapiji dijabetesa, gde je stekla iskustvo u oblastima farmakokinetike i farmakodinamike. Trenutno je u procedure pisanja doktorske disertacije na Tehničkom univerzitetu u Minhenu, gde joj je fokus istraživanja bio na izučavanju uloge mikroorganizama digestivnog trakta u patogenezi inflamatornih bolesti creva, korišćenjem klasičnih mikrobioloških metoda, kao i tehnologije sekvenciranja nove generacije (NGS). Istraživanja na BioSens Institutu su usmerena ka oblasti ekologije mikroorganizama u zemljištu i primeni poljoprivrednih tehnika zasnovanih na interakcijama biljaka i mikrobioma u održivoj poljoprivredi.

Dr Sonja Tarčak je naučni saradnik Centra za biosisteme na Institutu BioSens. Doktorirala je na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu 2019. godine na temu ekološke efektivnosti gazdovanja šumama u zaštićenim područjima. Pre doktorata je radila kao Marie Sklodowska-Curie stipendista na projektu „GoverNat“, u okviru kojeg je obučavana za sprovođenje interdisciplinarnih istraživanja o upravljanju prirodnim resursima. Njena istraživanja su usmerena na šumske ekosisteme, posebno funkcionisanje i odgovor šumskih ekosistema na poremećaje i promene u okolini, i primenu daljinske detekcije u ekologiji šuma. Sprovodila je i istraživanja o upravljanju šumama i biodiverzitetom u Slovačkoj i Srbiji (kvalitativna i eksperimentalna istraživanja). Radila je na projektima usmerenim na procenu efektivnosti zaštićenih područja i konzervaciono planiranje, ekosistemske usluge i procenu uticaja politike. Učestvovala je u 3 projekta EU, 1 nacionalnom i nekoliko manjih projekata. Njene glavne oblasti interesovanja su: upravljanje i gazdovanje šumama, funkcionalna ekologija šuma, i daljinska detekcija šuma.

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Aleksandra Gašić Čolić rođena je 20. avgusta 1988. Novom Sadu, Srbija. Nakon gimnazije „Svetozar Marković“ u Novom Sadu završila je Pravni fakultet. U okviru organizacije Vlade Autonomne pokrajine Vojvodine Aleksandra je od januara do jula 2013. godine učestvovala u Univerzitetskom programu radne prakse kod Pokrajinskog ombudsmana. Od septembra 2015. godine počinje da radi u sekretarijatu Instituta BioSens – Instituta za istraživanje i razvoj informacionih tehnologija u biosistemima.

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Maksim Lalić je istraživač pripravnik na institutu BioSens i student doktorskih studija na Fakultetu organizacionih nauka, Univerziteta u Beogradu. Osnovne i master akademske studije iz oblasti računarstva je završio 2017. i 2018. godine na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu. Nakon završenih master studija, ostaje zaposlen na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka kao asistent sa angažmanom na predmetima iz oblasti analize podataka i baza podataka. Interesuje se za primene metoda mašinskog učenja, operacionih istraživanja i veštačke inteligencije u razvoju agentskih sistema i sistema za podršku u odlučivanju.

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Dr Sanja Brdar je naučni saradnik i rukovodilac Centra za informacione tehnologije na Institutu BioSens. Doktorirala je na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu 2016. Pre početka doktorata provela je dve godine u softverskoj kompaniji u timu za razvoj baza podataka. Desetomesečnu Basileus stipendiju za istražvački boravak u Laboratoriji za bioinformatiku na Univerzitetu u Ljubljani dobila je 2010. godine i time postavila osnove za doktorat u oblasti fuzije podataka/znanja u bioinformatici. Aktivno je uključena u mnoge projekte, uključujući H2020 Antares, Dragon, Bestmap i Flekigrobots i predavač je na dva master predmeta na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, smer Nauka o podacima. Njena istraživačka interesovanja uključuju mašinsko učenje, objašnjivu veštačku inteligenciju i bioinformatiku. Radi na ansambalskim metodama, fuziji podataka, klasterizaciji i prediktivnom modelovanju sa primenom u biologiji, poljoprivredi, životnoj sredini i javnom zdravlju. Učesnica je na svetskim izazovima iz nauke o podacima i sa timom istraživača postigla je značajne rezultate: treće mesto na Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (2012), finalista Orange France, Data for Development Challenge (2013), finalista / pobednik / treće mesto na Singenta Crop Challenge (2016, 2017, 2019) i finalista UNDP izazova depopulacije Srbije (2020).

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Predrag Lugonja je istraživac na Institutu BioSens. Diplomirao je na Departmanu za Energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije Fakulteta tehničkih nauka Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Student je završne godine doktorksih studia na Fakulteta tehničkih nauka Univerziteta u Novom Sad. Trenutno se bavi istraživanjem na poljima GIS i podataka koje su dobijeni daljinskom detekcijom.

Nikola Obrenović radi kao stariji istraživač pri Centru za informacione Tehnologije, Instituta BioSens, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Diplomu doktora nauka iz oblasti elektrotehničkog i računarskog inženjerstva, Nikola je stekao u oktobru 2015. godine na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu. Tokom doktorskih studija, Nikola se bavio oblasti razvoja baza podataka vođenim modelima, brzom izradom softverskih prototipova i automatskom verifikacijom dizajna softvera. Između jula 2017. i juna 2019. Godine, Nikola je radio kao postdoktorski saradnik u nauci i nastavi na Federalnoj politehničkoj školi u Lozani (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL), Švajcarska. Tamo, Nikola je učestvovao u razvoju i implementaciji nekoliko evropskih i švajcarskih nacionalnih projekata iz oblasti matematičke optimizacije i operacionih istraživanja. Pre nego što se pridružio Institutu BioSens u julu 2019, Nikola je bio docent na Departmanu za energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije, Fakulteta tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu. Oblasti njegovog istraživanja su matematička optimizacija, operaciona istraživanja, mašinsko učenje, baze podataka i softversko inženjerstvo vođeno modelima.
Uz to, Nikola Obrenović ima veliko praktično iskustvo iz softverske industrije. Tokom svoje karijere, Nikola je radio kao softverski inženjer i arhitekta u nekoliko internacionalnih softverskih kompanija i nezavisnih projekta. Kao najbitnije, izdvaja se Nikolin angažman kao softverski arhitekta na projektu “JourneyTree – Advanced Customer Analytics Made Simple”, finansiranom od strane DataPitch programa, pod Horizont 2020 istraživačkim i inovacionim programom Evropske Komisije.

Mirjana Radulović je istraživač-pripravnik na Institutu Biosens čija interesovanja su okrenuta ka daljinskoj detekciji, geoinformatici, upravljanju vodnim resursima, poljoprivredi i životnoj sredini. Ona je trenutno student doktorskih studija geonauka na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu gde je takođe stekla diplomu osnovnih (2017) i master studija (2018) u oblasti hidrologije i geoinformatike. Tokom master studija pet meseci provela je na Univerzitetu Palacký u Olomoucu (Republika Češka), gde je studirala kao stipendista Erasmus + programa razmene. U martu 2019. godine pridružuje se Institutu Biosens gde radi na primeni geografskih informacionih sistema i tehnologija daljinske detekcije za praćenje navodnjavanih površina, suše, stanja useva, klasifikaciju iskoristivosti zemljišta, praćenje podzemnih voda itd. Učestvuje na nekoliko nacionalnih i internacionalnih projekata vezanih za navedene teme. Bila je autor i koautor na nekoliko radova i prisustvovala je na nekoliko naučnih konferencija.

Miloš Pandžić je istraživač pripravnik čije interesovanje pokriva nekoliko istaživačkih oblasti: osmatranje Zemlje, daljinsku detekciju, obradu slike i analitiku podataka. Trenutno je student doktorskih studija odseka za Geodeziju i geoinformatiku na Građevinskom fakultetu, Univerziteta u Beogradu, gde je takođe završio i osnovne i master akademske studije. U 2015. godini dobio je stipendiju vlade Austrije (OeAD) i proveo 4 meseca na Tehničkom univerzitetu u Beču gde je analizirao geometrijski kvalitet Sentinel-2 satelitskih multispektralnih snimaka. Iz ovog istraživanja je proizašao i Milošev master rad. Nakon završetka studija, radio je u Finskom geoprostornom istraživačkom institutu (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute - FGI) na više projekata finansiranih od strane Finske Akademije i Evropske svemirske agencije. Tu je radio na segmentaciji i detekciji promena na satelitskim slikama za potrebe poljoprivrede, urbanizma i šumarstva. U 2018. godini pridružio se Institutu BioSens gde radi na fuziji podataka optičkih i radarskih slika za procenu prinosa, klasifikaciju useva, praćenje razvoja useva, itd. Učestvuje u realizaciji nekoliko nacionalnih i internacionalnih projekata uključujući Horizon 2020 projekte Antares, Cybele, Dragon, PARSEC i agROBOfood.

Miljana Marković je istraživač – pripravnik na Institutu BioSens i student doktorskih studija u oblasti geonauka na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Završila je osnovne (2017) i master (2018) studije geodezije i geomatike na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Tokom studija bila je stipendista Fonda za mlade talente Republike Srbije “Dositeja” za 2016/17 i 2018/19 školsku godinu. U završnim radovima bavila se ispitivanjem različite mogućnosti primene GPR tehnologije za potrebe formiranja podzemnih 3D modela. Nakon završetka studija, radila je dve godine u geodetskoj kompanji kao inženjer geodezije. Doktorske studije upisuje krajem 2020. godine, a od marta 2021. godine radi na Institutu BioSens u istraživanjima usmerenim na primenu daljinske detekcije i geoinformacionih sistema u poljoprivredi. Trenutno je uključena u BESTMAP projekat.

Miljana Marković

Branislav Živaljević je student doktorskih studija Prirodno-matematičkog fakulteta, na Univerzitetu u Novom Sadu. Osnovne studije završio je 2017, a master studije 2019. godine na smeru master geograf - geoinformatičar. U svojim završnim radovima bavio se klimatskim i geomorfološkim procesima i njihovim uticajem na prirodnu sredinu. Tokom master studija proveo je mesec dana u Kini, gde je pohađao kurs letnje škole u organizaciji Đao Tong Univerziteta u Šangaju pod nazivom Knowing Satellite by Cubesat. Takođe je u više navrata obavljao praksu u kompaniji ''Here Technologies''. Doktorske studije upisuje 2020. godine, a od marta 2021. godine, je zaposlen na Institutu BioSens, kao istraživač-pripravnik u Centru za informacione tehnologije.

Branislav Pejak je student doktorskih studija Elektrotehničkog i kompjuterskog inženjerstva na Fakultetu tehničkih nauka, Univerziteta Novi Sad, na kojem je takođe završio osnovne (2017) i master (2018) studije u oblsti Biomedicinskog inženjerstva. Tokom osnovnih i master studija bio je stipendista Ministarstva obrazovanja, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja, Republike Srbije. Od marta 2018. godine zaposlen je u Centru za informacione tehnologije, Instituta BioSens, na poziciji mlađeg istraživača. Tema njegovog istraživanja je analiza podataka sa satelitskih snimaka. Trenutno se bavi razvojem GAN algoritama mašinskog učenja za klasifikaciju i predikciju prinosa na bazi multispektralnih satelitskih snimaka. Aktivno je uključen u mnoge projekte sa poziva Horizont 2020, među kojima su Antares, Cybele, Dragon i AgRoboFood koji imaju za cilj upotrebu informaciono-komunikacionih tehnologija u poljoprivredi poput kreiranja mapa za selektivno uzorkovanje i đubrenje zemljišta, detekciju navodnjavanih površina, procenu prinosa i proteinskog sastava useva.

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Tijana Nikolić je naučni sardnik na BioSense Institutu, doktorirala je na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu, oblast ekologija. Radi na očuvanju prirodnog i poluprirodnog staništa u poljoprivrednim predelima, potrebnim za zaštitu agro biodiverziteta, poboljšanje kvaliteta zemljišta i bezbednu proizvodnju hrane. Glavni fokus je na integrisanom upravljanju predelom koji podrazumeva proizvodnju hrane, ošuvanje biodiverziteta i prilagođavanje na klimatske promene, različitih sektora i zainteresovanih strana kako bi se zadovoljio niz kratkoročnih i dugoročnih društvenih potreba.

Dr Marija Miličić je viši naučni saradnik u Institutu BioSens, u okviru Centra za biosisteme. 2017. Godine je stekla diplomu doktora ekoloških nauka na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Njena istraživanja usmerena su na ekologiju, funkcionalnu raznovrsnost i konzervaciju osolikih muva (Diptera: Syrphidae), jedne od najznačajnijih grupa insekata oprašivača i agenasa biološke kontrole u kopnenim ekosistemima. Bavi se proučavanjem rasprostranjenosti vrsta, ekoloških osobina i odgovora oprašivača na različite pritiske iz životne sredine, kao što su intenzifikacija poljoprivrede i klimatske promene. Aktivno učestvuje u međunarodnim inicijativama usmerenim na prikupljanje i harmonizaciju velikih skupova podataka o osobinama i rasprostranjenosti evropskih oprašivača, koji se koriste za procene biodiverziteta, ekološko modelovanje i planiranje zaštite prirode. Marija je član Savetodavnog odbora IUCN (Međunarodna unija za očuvanje prirode) specijalističke grupe za osolike muve.

Marija Miličić

Dr Ljiljana Šašič Zorić je istraživač na BioSense Institutu sa stručnim znanjem u oblasti genetike. Ljiljana je doktorirala 2018. godine na Departmanu za biologiju i ekologiju, na Prirodno-matematičkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Posebno je orijentisana na primenu sekvenci mitohondrijalnih i nuklearnih molekularnih markera u genetičkim analizama, identifikaciji i razgraničavanju Evropskih vrsta insekata. Od 2016. godine sarađuje sa DNK laboratorijom Finskog Prirodnjačkog muzeja, Univerziteta u Helsinkiju, gde je stekla dodatno iskustvo u molekularnoj taksonomiji osolikih muva. Tokom 2017. godine, njeno istraživanje o uticaju endosimbiotskih bakterija na evolucionu dinamiku mitohondrijalnih gena stipendirano je od strane Entomološkog društva u Helsinkiju i Društva za zaštitutu flore i faune Finske. Njen projekat „Genomski pristup u proceni biodiverziteta osolikih muva - DNK barkoding nove generacije“ nagrađen je stogodišnjom jubilarnom stipendijom Entomološkog društva iz Helsinkija za 2019. godinu. Ljiljana je neformalni član tima za genetička istraživanja na Departmanu za biologiju i ekologiju, Prirodno-matematičkog fakulteta u Novom Sadu, kao i koordinator istraživačkih aktivnosti u Centru za bihejvioralna istraživanja Valentis, Bačka Palanka.

Isidora Simović je naučni saradnik na BioSens Institutu. Doktorila je na Šumarskom fakultetu u Beogradu radeći na praćenju morfologije, fenologije I anatomije drveća u različitim sredinama. Trenutno radi na primeni daljinske detekcije u praćenju klimatskihi antropogenih uticaja na prirodne i urbane ekosisteme.

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Dr Andrijana Andrić zaposlena je u Centru za biosisteme Instituta BioSens, u zvanju Viši naučni saradnik u oblasti Prirodno-matematičke nauke - biološke nauke. Završila je studije (Doktor nauka - biološke nauke) 2015. godine na Departmanu za biologiju i ekologiju, Prirodno-matematičkog fakulteta, Univerziteta u Novom Sadu. Prevashodno je usmerena ka istraživanju biologije i ekologije insekata oprašivača i njihovih biljaka domaćina, sa fokusom na fitofagne osolike muve (Diptera: Syrphidae) i njihove nedovoljno istražene razvojne stadijume.

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