Dr. Irena Todorović

Dr. Irena Todorović was born on April 27th, 1995 in Belgrade. She graduated from Zemun High School in 2014, after which she enrolled in Undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, study program Biology (Ecology module). In 2017, she was the coordinator of the Congress of Biology Students "Simplast". She graduated in 2018, earning the title of Graduated biologist. In the same year, she enrolled in the Master's Program at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, study program Food Technology (module Microbiology of Food and the Environment), and completed them in 2019. She worked on the Master's thesis titled "Possibilities for application of Bacillus megaterium inoculum and Aspergillus piperis metabolites in seed biopriming" at the Department for Environmental Microbiology, and she defended it on July 4th, 2019 with a grade 10, earning the title Master engineer of technology. In the same year, she was awarded a scholarship by the French government for joint Doctoral academic studies at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (Claude Bernard Lyon 1, doctoral school Évolution, Écosystèmes, Microbiologie, Modélisation) and at the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Agriculture, study program Agricultural Sciences), as well as Scholarship from the Foundation for Young Talents in the Republic of Serbia, for the best students studying abroad. On May 31st, 2024, she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Indigenous bacterial populations in soil suppressiveness to Fusarium graminearum", earning the title of Doctor of Biotechnical Sciences (in Serbia) and Doctor of the University of Lyon (in France). Dr. Irena Todorović participated in the SupressSoil project, funded by the BiodivERsA3 ERA-Net COFUND program, and the ANR (French National Research Agency), that aimed to understand molecular and ecological processes in soils suppressive to pathogenic fungi, in Germany, Switzerland, Serbia and France. In addition, she participated in the Multilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation project, which brought together researchers from France, Serbia and the Czech Republic, and aimed to test the suppressiveness of soils to Fusarium graminearum. Irena Todorović speaks, reads and writes English (level C2/C2) and French (level B2/C2).