Dr. Dušica Ćalić

Dr. Dušica Ćalić, as a Principal research fellow employed at the Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković“in Belgrade, Serbia. She has a long experience in the field of plant physiology, plant biotechnology plant genetics, plant molecular biology, genetic engineering, and the biotic and abiotic stress response. Her participation in basic and applied science research projects, authorship of 46 peer-reviewed papers in eminent international scientific journals, 2 chapters in the books, over 150 presentations at different international and national conferences, reviews of the scientific papers addressed to international scientific journals, as well as completed UNESCO supported International training course on "Molecular and Biotechnological aspects of sexual reproduction in Higher Plants” at the Agriculture Institute Martonvásár of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1998) and completed and certified COST organized and supported practice course of "Flow cytometry" at the Grape Breeding Institute, Geisenheim, Germany (2005), continuously collaboration with Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana, Slovenia, affirm Dr. Dušica Ćalić as a competent researcher.

Also, she has experience in managing European Cooperation in Science and Technology (EU COST Actions, Brussels- Belgium) projects. She has worked with many students and volunteers in the Plant Physiology Department, IBISS (mentored 2 master’s theses and two Ph.D. theses) and mentored 3 high school students who won first place in the state competition in biology.

She is a member of the KTT team for knowledge and technology transfer at IBISS.