The Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković” (IBISS), University of Belgrade, est. in 1947, comprises 14 departments with 348 employees, including 240 PhD holders and 63 PhD students. As one of the largest bioscience institutes in Eastern Europe, IBISS participated in 51 international projects, 28 national projects, and 91 applicative projects from 2019 to 2024, resulting in >1,250 peer-reviewed publications. The institute has extensive international cooperation and is equipped with modern facilities such as greenhouses, biological collections, and animal facilities.
Olga Radulović was born in 1986 in Belgrade. She completed her Master studies in 2013, while she enrolled in her doctoral studies in 2014 at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade. In the period 2013/2014. she spent a semester at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany, where she did scientific research work at the Institute for Clinical and Molecular Immunology. For this, she received a scholarship from the German Research Society (DFG). She defended her doctoral thesis "System for bioremediation of phenol-polluted water using duckweed (Lemna minor L.) and its rhizosphere bacteria" in 2020. The main areas of current research are the interactions of duckweed and its rhizosphere bacteria, bacteria as a natural source of indole-3-acetic acid and other phytohormones, improving plant resistance and modulating the oxidative response of plants using plant growth-promoting bacteria.