She graduated from the "Drinka Pavlović" elementary school in 1975 and the Fifth Belgrade Gymnasium in 1979.
Graduate studies: Graduated in 1985 from the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Marine Sciences, University of Belgrade; average grade 9,2; thesis topic "Analysis of some intra- and inter-sample meristic characters and length-weight relationships in the horse mackerel Trachurus trachurus (L.) in the central Adriatic"
Postgraduate studies: She received her master's degree in 1993 from the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, majoring in Animal Ecology; the topic of her master's thesis was "Taxonomic and ecological characteristics of perch Stizostedion lucioperca (L.) from the Yugoslav part of the Danube"
She received her PhD in 2004 from the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade; her doctoral dissertation topic was "Growth, nutrition and resource distribution of sympatric piscivorous fish in the Danube near Belgrade".
Movement in service
From 1986 to 1989, she worked as a junior assistant trainee in the Department of Limnology at the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković".
Since 1989, she has been working at the Faculty of Biology, at the Department of Animal Ecology and Zoogeography, first as an assistant trainee. She was elected to the rank of assistant in 1993, to the rank of assistant professor in 2005, to the rank of associate professor in 2014, and to the rank of full professor in 2022.
Since 2012, he has been the head of the Department of Ecology and Geography of Animals.
Since the academic year 2007/2008, she has served as co-head of the doctoral studies program "Ecology". From 2007 to 2010, she served as chair of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Biology.
Research area
• Idioecology, population dynamics, interspecific relationships (competition and predation) of ecologically and economically important and/or endangered fish species • Ecotoxicological research, problems of bioaccumulation and biomagnification of potentially toxic elements in natural fish populations • Cenological research of aquatic communities (diversity and biotic integrity indices, assessment of ecological status)
