Dr. Marija Mrdaković

Marija Mrdaković, Principal Research Fellow, graduated from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade in 1997. She defended her master's thesis in 2003 and her doctoral dissertation in 2010 at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Since 1998 she has been working at the Department of Insect Physiology and Biochemistry of the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade. Her field of research includes the study of the effects of chemical and physical stress factors present in the environment on polyphagous phytophagous, and economically important insect species, at different levels of their biological organization. She is involved in the study of insect`s physiological plasticity in response to stress and environmental changes, the mechanisms of their adaptation, as well as the determination of biochemical and molecular biological parameters that can serve as biomarkers of pollution. She participated in several projects that were funded by the relevant Serbian ministry, as well as in the project of the United Nations Development Program that dealt with the use of insects in animal feed, and the biotransformation of organic and plastic waste, within the "EU Green Agenda in Serbia". She is the author and co-author of 67 scientific publications. She has been involved in the supervision and preparation of doctoral dissertations and has reviewed articles in numerous international journals. She is a member of the Entomological Society of Serbia, the Serbian Biological Society, the Association of Toxicologists of Serbia, the European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology, the International Union of Toxicology.