Dr. Neda Aničić

Neda Aničić graduated from the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade in 2012, obtaining both her MSc (2013) and Ph.D. (2020) degrees from the same institution. Her research interests span plant specialized metabolism, metabolic engineering, plant molecular biology, and stress physiology. As a Visiting Scholar, she enriched her academic journey at the Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, University of Ulm, Germany (2014), and the Pharmacognosy Laboratory of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2015). Neda has been honored with the Award of the "Goran Ljubijankić" Foundation for the best doctoral dissertation in molecular biology defended in 2020 across all Serbian universities. Additionally, she received the FESPB travel grant to attend the Plant Biology Europe (PBE) conference in Copenhagen, Denmark (2018), and the STSM Grant funded by the Cost Action CA1106 for her research conducted at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015). Dr. Aničić was engaged in two national and three international projects during her career. She participated as a member of the Organizing Committee of several international conferences, including two organized by the Serbian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) in 2018 and 2022, and 2nd Annual Meeting of RoxyCOST in 2022. Dr. Aničić has participated in science promotion projects such as European Researchers’ Night (Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions), Fascination of Plants Day (European Plant Science Organization), and Friendships Games (Novak Đoković Foundation). Neda was a mentor of one MSc and has experimentally contributed to numerous MSc and Ph.D. theses. Dr. Aničić is also engaged in the Center of Research Excellency for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology at the IBISS (2020-2024). She is a member of The Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB), the SPPS, and the Serbian Biochemical Society (SBS).