Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 06/2000 PhD in Molecular Biology, University of Belgrade
  
  
• 1998 – 2000 PhD thesis, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE) and University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  
  
• 1994 – 1998 Magister of Science, IMGGE and University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
  
  
• 1989 – 1994 Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Research Career

• 03/2014 Professor at the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany
  
  
• 03/2012 Visiting Professor at Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  
  
• 07/2010 Private Lecturer (Privatdozent) – University of Cologne
  
  
• 2009-2014 Independent Junior Group Leader, CECAD at the Institute of Genetics, Cologne, Germany
  
  
• 2011-2012 Senior Researcher, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  
• 2006 – 2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  
• 2000 – 2005 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Awards and Honors

• 07/2012 ERC Starter – Consolidator Grant
  
  
• 2007 The Jeanssons Foundation Annual Award for
  
  
• 2006 Assistant Professorship from the Swedish Research Foundation(VR)

Member of organizing committees:

• 10th European meeting on Mitochondrial Pathophysiology; EuroMit 10 – Cologne, Germany, 2017
  
  
• EMBO Advance Course “Mitochondria in life death and disease” Crete, Greece, 2015
  
  
• 9th European meeting on Mitochondrial Pathophysiology; EuroMit 9 – Tampere, Finland 2014
  
  
• First Cologne Aging Meeting, Cologne, Germany, May 2013
  
  
• EMBO/FEBS Advance Course “Mitochondria in life death and disease” Crete, Greece, 2012
  
  
• 8th European meeting on Mitochondrial Pathophysiology; EuroMit 8 - Zaragoza, Spain 2011
  
  
• Mosbach Colloquium “Biology of Ageing: Mechanisms and Interventions” Mosbach, Germany, 2010
  
  
• FEBS Advance Course “Mitochondria in life death and disease”; Aussois, France, 2009
  
  
• Key Symposium: “Biology of Ageing”; Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007

Referee for Grant Offices

• German Research Foundation (DFG) – Germany
  
  
• The French National Research Agency – France
  
  
• Medical Research Council – UK
  
  
• Research into Ageing – UK
  
  
• Austrian Academy of Science – Austria
  
  
• National Research Council (NCN)– Poland
  
  
• National Research Council (CNCS)– Romania
  
  
• Dutch National Science Foundation(NOW) – The Netherlands

Referee for Scientific Journals

• Nature
  
  
• PLoS ONE
  
  
• Science
  
  
• Ageing Cell
  
  
• Nature Genetics
  
  
• Experimental Gerontology
  
  
• Cell Metabolism
  
  
• BioEssays
  
  
• PLoS Biology
  
  
• BiochimicaBiophysicaActa
  
  
• PLoS Genetics
  
  
• Journal of Neurochemistry
  
  
• The Journal of Experimental Biology
  
  
• Genes & Nutrition
  
  
• Laboratory Investigation

Research Support

• 2013-2018 ERC Consolidator Grant: “Mitochondrial unfolded protein response and the role in ageing”
  
  
• 2012 -2016 Marie Curie Initial Training Network: “MARieCuRIeAGEing Network“
  
  
• 2011-2014 German Research Foundation (DFG): “Dissecting the role of mitochondrial translation defects in ageing“
  
  
• 2011-2014 Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne: “Mitochondrial function and dysfunction in neurodegeneration“
  
  
• 2011-2013 Fritz ThyssenStiftung Grant: “DARS2 deficiency in mice: Modelling the mitochondrial involvement in leucoencephalophaty“

Invited Speaker (2008-2013)

2013

• 3rd Lung Conference; Munich; Germany, October 4-5 2013
  
  
• “Tissue Repair and Regeneration: Gordon Research Conference”, New London, New Haven, USA, June 16-21 2013.
  
  
• “Mitochondria, Metabolic Regulation and the Biology of Aging” Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain; February 13-16 2013.

2012

• “DNA and Aging”: XII Topic Day; October 3-4 2012; Grenoble, France
  
  
• "Mitochondrial Molecular Biology" June 13-16 2012; Fiskebackskil Sweden
  
  
• FEBS Advanced Lecture Courses: Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease. Crete, Greece. May 9 -12 2012.

2011

• “The Old Patient”: Prevention and Intervention: from Molecular Biology to Clinical Perspectives" 16th-18th September 2011; Halle, Germany
  
  
• FASEB Summer Research Conference: Mitochondrial Assembly and Dynamics in Health Disease and Ageing July 17th-22nd, 2011 Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA
  
  
• DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance Forum: Ageing and Cancer: from molecules to organisms. May 19th-21st, 2011, Heidelberg, Germany
  
  
• The Mitochondrial Research School: May 16th -18th, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010

• The International Symposium “100 Years of Ivan Djaja’s Belgrade School of Physiology” 14th-19th September 2010
  
  
• Gordon Conference on Biology of Ageing. Les Diablerets, Switzerland. August 22nd -27th, 2010.
  
  
• 16th European Bioenergetic Conference (EBEC), Warsaw, Poland. July 17th -22nd, 2010.

2009

• 1st Meeting of the Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT), Innsbruck, Austria September 21st – 23rd 2009
  
  
• FEBS Advanced Lecture Courses: Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease. Aussois, France September 16th -20th 2009.
  
  
• Embo Lecture Course in “Mitochondrial Medicine: from genetics to biological mechanisms and beyond” Bologna, Italy April 18th -22nd 2009.

2008

• Gordon Conference on Mitochondria and Chloroplasts. University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA, August 10th -15th, 2008
  
  
• The Ninth International Symposium on Neurology and Neuroendocrinology of Ageing, Bregenz, Austria July 20th -25th, 2008
  
  
• Bari International Symposium "Mitochondrial Physiology and Pathology", Bari, Italy, June 22th - 26th, 2008