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Prof. Dr. Milan Dekić (PI)

Prof. Dr. Milan Dekić is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Science and Mathematics of the State University of Novi Pazar. In 2011 he received his Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics of the University of Niš with title: "Phytochemical study of selected taxa belonging to Geraniaceae and Brassicaceae plant families". He has 20 years of scientific experience in research fields relevant to this project. He has colaborated as a researcher in the project entiltet:"Combinatorial libraries of heterogenus catalysis, natural producsts, and their derivatives and analogues: the way to biologically active compounds"

Membership: Serbian Chemical Society and Serbian Society for Phytochemistry and Phytomedicine.
Hirsch index from SCORPUS citation database is 13.

Prof. rer. nat. Elvira Mavrić-Scholze (PP1)

Prof. Dr. Elvira Mavrić-Scholze is Project Partner from Diaspora. She is a full professor at Hochscule Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Köthen, Germany, with a main research focus on the chemistry of natural food materials, isolation and determination of bioactive food compounds, plant protein analysis, and advanced analytical techniques. Prof. Dr. Elvira Mavrić-Scholze completed her Ph.S. study in 2006. at the Technical University of Dresden with title:"Arginine deriavatization and 1,2-dicarbonly compounds in foods". She is an author or co-author in 4papers in international peer-reviewed journals with 542 citations.

Doc. Dr. Marko Mladenović (TM1)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Marko Mladenović is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Niš, and an Assistant Professor at the State University of Novi Pazar. He has over 15 years of research experience on projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of Serbia, primarily focused on the chemical analysis of volatile compounds, as well as their isolation and synthesis. During his postdoctoral research at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis (France), he further advanced his expertise in natural products, particularly in odor and aroma analysis, including extraction techniques and the characterization of trace volatile compounds using GC-MS-Olfactometry. He has authored or co-authored 30 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, which have collectively received 407 citations, and he currently holds an h-index of 12. In addition, he has contributed to more than 60 presentations at international and national conferences and symposia.

Dr. Dejan Milenković (TM2)

Dr. Dejan Milenković is a multifaceted researcher with expertise in computational chemistry. He has a proven track record in investigating the antiradical activity of natural compounds against biologically relevant reactive oxygen and nitrogen species employing computational and quantum-chemical methods, such as density functional theory (DFT). Dr Milenković also employs molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations to assess the inhibitory activity of molecules and develops machine learning-based QSAR models to predict the activity and toxicity of natural compounds. He participates in a number of national and international projects in the EU. He leads an international project supported by the EU, where he is conducting research at the Center of New Technologies (CeNT) at the University of Warsaw. He is the author or co-author of 83 scientific papers in SCI journals with impact factors. Dr. Milenković has delivered lectures in English at more than 10 international conferences. According to Scopus (accessed September 08, 2025), his papers have been cited 2164 times (cited 1995 times exclude self citations) with the h-index of 28.

Doc. Dr. Violeta Jakovljević (TM3)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Violeta Jakovljević – currently employed as Assistant Professor at the State University of Novi Pazar. She obtained her PhD in 2014 with a thesis titled „Biochemical characteristics of fungal species in the function of detergent biodegradation". Her research focuses on antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of bioactive compounds and microbial biodegradation of xenobiotics. She is the author of 29 scientific papers and over 30 conference presentations, with 80 citations (excluding self-citations) and an h-index of 7 (Scopus, accessed on 30.11.2024).

Samira Plojović (TM4)

Samira Plojović is currently a Ph.D. student in Organic Chemistry at the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Niš, Serbia. Since 2023, she has been engaged as a junior teaching assistant and teaching assistant at the State University of Novi Pazar. She has received several awards, including the scholarship of the Foundation for Young Talents – Dositeja (2022) and the scholarship intended for the best students of the city of Novi Pazar (2022), while in 2025 she was also honored with the Svetosavska Povelja awarded by the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš. She is a member of the Serbian Chemical Society and the Club of Young Chemists of Serbia since 2023.