Dr. Ksenija Jakovljević

Date of birth: 11 August 1978, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia

Education:
• Ph.D. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2010.
• M.Sc. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2006.
• B.Sc. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2002.

Current position:
• Senior Research Associate, Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", University of Belgrade, 2024-.
• Managing Editor, Botanica Serbica, 2019-.

Previous positions:
• Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2020-2024.
• Research Associate, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2014-2020.
• Research Assistant, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 2011-2014.
• Teaching Associate, Faculty of Biology University of Belgrade, 2005-2006.

Research focus:
• Ionomics of hyperaccumulator species
• Ultramafics
• Metalliferous sites
• Phytoremediation
• Urban ecology

Professional training:
• Synthesys, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, 2023.
• DESY Photon Science-DOOR, Hamburg, 2023, 2024.

International projects:
• Convergent adaptation of plants to toxic substrates, 2023-.
• COST Action 19116 -Trace metal metabolism in plants – PLANTMETALS, 2020-.
• Ionomics of hyperaccumulator plants from the Balkans, 2020-2022.
• Flora and vegetation on ultramafits (serpentinite) as a basis for expanding national lists of plants and habitats in Montenegro and Serbia, with special reference to the bioaccumulation potential of individual plants for phytoremediation, 2019-2020.

National projects:
• Monitoring of orchids in NP Kopaonik, 2023.
• Data collection and other services related to the establishment of Natura 2000 as part of the ecological network of Serbia, 2018.
• Data collection and other services related to the continuation of preparation of red lists of groups of organisms of flora, fauna and fungi of Serbia, 2016, 2018.
• Monitoring of flora in National Park Tara, 2016, 2019-2022.
• Data collection and other services related to the continuation of establishment of ecological network in Serbia, 2016.
• Biodiversity of plants of Serbia and the Balkan peninsula – assessment, sustainable use and conservation, 2011-2020.
• Diversity of flora and vegetation of the central Balkans – ecology, chorology and conservation, 2006-2010.
• Green regulation of Belgrade, 2005-2007.
• Endemic flora of Serbia - ecology, distribution and conservation, 2002-2005.