Dr. Zorana Miletić

Zorana Miletić, Ph.D. born on February 28, 1990, in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia.

She defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Content of potentially toxic elements in selected wood species as bioindicators of pollution in the coastal zone of the Sava River" in 2021 at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.

Employed at the Department of Ecology since March 2015.

Dr. Zorana Miletić's primary research focus is ecotoxicology and ecophysiology of plants. As part of this research, Zorana Miletić has contributed significantly to the assessment of the potential of autochthonous and allochthonous invasive plant species for bioindication and phytoremediation of soils contaminated with potentially toxic elements, including heavy metals. By participating in national and international projects, she gained valuable knowledge on solving various environmental problems in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in our country and abroad. Through her floristic and phytocenological research, Dr. Zorana Miletić made an important contribution to the understanding of the pathways and mechanisms of invasion of non-native plant species. In the field of ethnobotany, an important botanical discipline, Zorana Miletić documented and described the diversity of medicinal plants and established a connection between the types of their use in different areas of the Balkan Peninsula and especially on the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

She has been a member of the Serbian Biological Society since 2015.

For the results of her doctoral thesis, Dr. Zorana Miletić was awarded the Danubius Young Scientist Award in 2022. This prize was awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM).