Dr. Jelka Crnobrnja Isailović

She was born in 1962 in Belgrade, SFRY. She graduated from the Department of Biological Sciences - General Biology at the University of Belgrade in 1986., completed her Master's Degree in Genetics at the Department of Biological Sciences University of Belgrade in 1988, and completed her PhD studies in Evolutionary biology at the Faculty of Biology University of Belgrade in 1997. Her scientific interests are in the field of evolutionary and conservation biology. Since 1986, she has been affiliated with IBISS, first as a researcher in the Department of Genetics, and from 1990 in the Department of Evolutionary Biology. Since 2008, she has been dividing her working time between IBISS and PMF of the University of Niš, where she teaches evolutionary and conservation biology at the Department of Biology and Ecology. In 1989, she spent a month at the Genetics Department of the University of Valencia, Spain. As a DAAD scholarship holder in 2002, she spent a month at the "Alexander König" Museum of Natural History in Bonn, Germany. As a 2018/19 Fulbright Foundation scholar, she spent seven months at Urbana-Champaign University in Illinois, USA. She has been a member of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH) since 1993 (in 2010-2017 she was the vice-general secretary of the Society) and a member of the Society for Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) since 2012. She is a member of the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group (in 2012-2023 she was the regional coordinator of the Red List Assessors Team for assessing the status of European amphibians on the Red List) and a member of the IUCN Viper Specialist Group (since 2012 she has been acting as the regional coordinator for Europe, and since 2020 she has been the co-coordinator, with Dr Marcio Martins, of the working group for assessing the status of species on the Red List). Since 2001, he has been a member of the Expert Council for Biological Safety at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Serbia. From 2001 to 2005, she was a principal investigator of the project "Evolution in heterogeneous environments" funded by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.