Dr. Dragana Pavlović

She graduated in 2008 from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Belgrade with a degree in Biochemistry. She obtained her Master's Degree at the same faculty in 2010. In 2018, she defended her PhD thesis entitled "The chemical properties of potentially toxic elements in soil and their impact on the functioning of the species Betula pendula Roth., Acer pseudoplatanus L. and Acer platanoides L. in urban areas of several industrial centers in Serbia". She has been working as a research trainee in the Department of Ecology of the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", University of Belgrade since 2011. In 2012, she was appointed as a research assistant and in 2019, and as a research associate in the field of Natural Sciences - Biology.

The scientific research focus is in the field of ecology and environmental protection, primarily in the chemical degradation of soils, i.e. the determination of the degree of pollution, the origin and bioavailability of potentially toxic elements (PTE) in the soils of riparian, urban and industrial ecosystems, as well as the study of the ecophysiological response of plants to the effects of multiple stress factors in the aforementioned habitat types.

In her scientific and research activities to date, she has been involved in the implementation of 8 national and 3 international projects. She has published a total of 61 bibliographic units. According to the Scopus database, she has 460 heterocites and an h-index of 12.

She is a member of the administrative and organizing committee of the international conference YUCORR entitled "Meeting Point of the Science and Practice in the Fields of Corrosion, Materials and Environmental Protection", and a member of the Serbian Biological Society. She is committed to the realization of the goals and tasks of the Union of Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, for which she was awarded the honorary member award in 2022.