Dr. Snežana Zdravković-Korać

Snežana Zdravković-Korać graduated in Molecular Biology and Physiology from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Belgrade and obtained MSc and PhD degrees in Plant Physiology from the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. During undergraduate and postgraduate studies, she received a prestigious scholarship from the Foundation for the Studies of Sciences and Arts, funded by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She participated in several national and international training courses and workshops in the field of plant molecular biology and worked as a visiting researcher in the Department of Biotechnology at the Centre for Agricultural Research in Gembloux, Belgium. Snežana participated in 7 national projects and three EU COST Actions (CA843, CA18201, and CA21157) and was appointed Invited Professor of Plant Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in the Doctoral academic studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Her area of expertise covers the field of plant physiology and molecular biology and biotechnology with special focus on in vitro plant propagation (somatic embryogenesis, androgenesis and de novo shoot organogenesis), production of secondary metabolites, genetic engineering, gene expression and epigenetics. She has co-authored 4 book chapters, over 50 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, two invited lectures, 18 conference proceedings and over 130 presentations at international and national conferences. She has been a member of scientific committees and section chair of several international and national conferences, member of the editorial board of Archives of Biological Sciences, review editor of Frontiers in Plant Science in the Technical Advances in Plant Science section and reviewer for a number of scientific journals. She supervised two PhD theses and was actively involved in several PhD and Master theses.