Dr. Stoimir Kolarević

Dr. Stoimir Kolarević was born on July 30, 1984, in Sisak, Republic of Croatia. He enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, program Biology, during the academic year 2002/03, and graduated in 2009. In the academic year 2009/10, he started doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology, modul Microbiology, which he completed in 2014. He began his scientific career at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, in 2011. Since January 1, 2020, he has been employed as a senior research associate at the Department of hydroecology and water protection of IBISS. Dr. Kolarević's scientific research is focused on the fields of microbiology and eco/genotoxicology. He investigates the impact of wastewater on the quality of surface waters, as well as on organisms inhabiting freshwater and marine ecosystems, with a focus on eco/geno-toxicological analyses.

Since 2024, Dr. Kolarević has served as the Vice President of the Mutagenesis and Genotoxicology Section of the Serbian Genetic Society and is a representative of Serbia in the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomic Society (EEMGS). Since 2014, he has been participating in the work of the Monitoring and Assessment Expert Group (MAЕG) of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River.

He received the award for the best oral presentation at the international conference "The 14th International Comet Assay Workshop & 50th Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society meeting" (Maastricht, Netherlands, 2022) for his lecture "Application of comet assay in aquatic organisms – summary and lessons learned in past 10 years of field research". Additionally, he is the recipient of the prestigious FEMS fellowship for postdoctoral training ("Federation of European Microbiology Societies FEMS-GO Research and training grant"), which he completed in 2019 at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana, Slovenia.