Dr. Milica Jonjev

Dr. Milica Jonjev was born in 1990 in Belgrade, where she completed primary and secondary school. She completed her bachelor's and master's academic studies at the Faculty of Forestry University of Belgrade, Ecological engineering for soil and water resources protection. She completed her doctoral studies at the same department in 2022 when she defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘Distribution of heavy metals in soils of the Sava River riparian zone’.

Since July 2015, she has been employed at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković" - an Institute of national importance for the Republic of Serbia - in the Department of Ecology, since April 2022 as a Research Associate. She is engaged in research on chemical and physical degradation of soils and river sediments, with a focus on potentially toxic elements and assessment of ecological risk to the environment. Another part of the research is related to ecophysiological research of plants under conditions of multiple stresses and ethnobotanical research.

During her research activity, she has been involved in the implementation of several scientific and applied projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management. She was a participant in the international project from the FP7 framework program "GLOBAQUA'' Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity" (EC No. 603629). She is currently employed under the Institutional Funding Program of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (451-03-66/2024-03/ 200007).

In 2016, she was on a study visit at the "Jožef Stefan" Institute in Ljubljana, where she did part of her doctoral thesis. Dr. Milica Jonjev is a member of the Serbian Biological Society and the Serbian Soil Science Society.