Dr. Dragan Čakmak

Dr Dragan Čakmak enrolled in the Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Water Reclamation 1984/85. and completed his studies on 12 July 1989. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Belgrade on 6 July 1995. He took up his first employment on 1 June 1990 at the Institute of Agricultural Economics of PKB - Belgrade, and then from 01.07.1995 at the Institute for Soil science in Belgrade. From 1 January 2017, he was employed at the Department of Ecology, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" of the University of Belgrade.

On 21.10.2019 he received the title of Principal Research Fellow. He has published 123 scientific publications, 45 of which are included in the SCI list. The published works are mainly in the field of ecology and soil degradation, with special emphasis on receptor modeling to determine the source of potentially toxic elements.

Participation in the projects was characterized by the three most important ones in which he was the leader: (2006-2007) "Soil Survey of the Crni Vrh (Bor) region", Dundee Plemeniti Metali d.o.o., study on impact assessment of the opening of new mines, (2014) "Soil investigation and sediments in flood-threatened areas". The results of the project, in addition to the usual form of presentation of the project results, were presented in the public announcement of the Government of the Republic of Serbia in the form of recommendations for agricultural production on areas from which flood waters have receded, (2018) "Determination of the natural background of certain harmful and hazardous substances in the soil", in order to determine the background of PTEs in the lands of the RS.

Dr Dragan Čakmak is a member of the Serbian Society for the Study of Soils and was its Secretary General from 2015 to 2019.