Dr. Larisa Ilijin

Larisa Ilijin, Principal Research Fellow, graduated from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Biology, Department of Applied Genetics, in 1995. She defended her master's thesis at the same faculty in 2001 and her doctoral thesis in 2009. From 1995 to 1998 she was a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia, and since 1998 she has been employed at the Department of Insect Physiology and Biochemistry of the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", National Institute of the Republic of Serbia. Her scientific field of work includes studies of the effects of various chemical and physical stressors present in the environment on different levels of biological organisation of economically important species of phytophagous insects. In her most recent research, she has been working on the inclusion of insects in circular economy systems on insect farms, as biotransformers of various plastic and organic waste, their use as protein-rich alternative feed for domestic animals as and their fras as organic plant fertilizer. She was engaged in six projects of the relevant Ministry, collaborated in the bilateral cooperation project with France and participated in two projects of the United Nations Development Program as part of the "EU Green Agenda in Serbia" program, which dealt with the use of insects as animal feed and the biodegradation of plastic waste.

She is the author and co-author of 68 scientific publications and has been involved in the supervision and preparation of doctoral theses. She has reviewed articles in leading international journals and scientific projects. She is a member of the European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology, the International Union of Toxicology, the Serbian Biological Society, the Entomological Society of Serbia and the Association of Toxicologists of Serbia.