Dr. Branislav Šiler

After completing bachelor studies at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Belgrade in 2002, ten years later he completed his doctoral academic studies at the same faculty. At the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", the research interest is focused on studying genetic and chemical variations of plant populations with a special focus on gene flow, introgression, interspecific hybridization, as well as on the elucidation of evolutionary mechanisms that lead to the differential accumulation of specialized metabolites in different genotypes. He was engaged in seven national and seven international projects and participated in the organization of several national and international scientific conferences. He supervised the preparation of two doctoral theses. For more than ten years, he has been dedicated to the popularization of science through the projects of European Researchers' Night. Since 2017, he is a member of the Scientific Council of IBISS. As of 2019, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal PLOS ONE and is an active reviewer in about 40 scientific journals from the SCI list. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Serbian Biological Society and a regular member of the Serbian Genetic Society, the Serbian Plant Physiology Society, and the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB).