Dr. Ana Ćirić

Dr. Ana Ćirić is a Principal Research Fellow at the Department of Plant Physiology (Mycology laboratory) of the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - National Institute of Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade. During her academic career, Dr Ćirić focused on researching the chemistry and bioactivity of natural products, especially fungi, plants, spongy and insects, in order to discover new therapeutic agents. She mastered the methods of extraction and isolation of secondary metabolites from micromycetes and plants during her studies at the University of Athens, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy (2002, 2003 and 2005). Dr Ana Ćirić has been involved in 16 projects, including Horizon-CHIC (as a participant), and she was the project manager of two projects. She is the author and co-author of 204 scientific articles in international journals and has participated in over 80 foreign and national congresses. The papers have been cited over 4,500 times and the h-index is 41. According to Stanford University and based on data from the Scopus database, Dr Ćirić is currently on Stanford's most-cited authors list from 2020-2022. She reviewed more than 30 scientific papers, one foreign project and was a guest editor in 3 scientific journals. As a mentor or committee member, she was involved in the defense of 6 doctoral theses, 7 master's theses and 2 graduate theses. Dr Ćirić is the president of the board of the Gašić Dr. Živan Foundation of the University of Belgrade, since 2021. She is involved in several organizational and scientific committees of national and international congresses. He is a member of the Research Centre of Excellence for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology at IBISS.