Dr. Milica Potrebić Stefanović

Milica Potrebić is in her final year of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade (UB) in Biology, Animal and Human Physiology. She begin her academic journey in Biology in 2012, where she completed her undergraduate studies in September 2016, and in the same year she embarked on her master's studies in Zoology, Faculty of Biology, completing them in 2017 with an average grade of 9.66 out of 10. Transitioning to her doctoral studies in 2017, thanks to the Fellowships for advanced graduate students, Ministry of Science, Technological development and innovation of Republic of Serbia, she secured employment at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković,", a National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, within the Department of Neurobiology, where she currently works as Research Assistant. The title of her doctoral dissertation is "The influence of social isolation on emotional reactions, psychomotor activity, and antioxidative status of peripheral organs in peripubertal rats". Her primary research lies in understanding how psychosocial stress in adolescent rodents affects social behavior (such as social cognition and motivation), and the development of various affective disorders. She is an active member of Serbian Neuroscience Society, Serbian Molecular Biology Society and Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).