Aleksandar SIMIC Bio-Résumé

EDUCATION:

2008    PhD Biotechnology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2002    Masters of Science, Biotechnology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

1995    Bachelor of Science, Agronomy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

EXPERIENCE:

2014: Associate Professor at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University

2009: Assistant Professor at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University

2002 – 2009: Assistant at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Belgrade University

1999 - 2002: Teaching Assistant at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade

1996 - 1999: Scientific Assistant at Crop Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade

Designed and taught student training sessions for several Agronomy courses; provided one-on-one tutorial work with students; guided several master, bachelor thesis works and three doctoral thesis; graded homework assignments and exams; collecting and processing data from the experimental trials, preparation and presentation of the research results in published and other forms

Summer 2004: Course on seed technology and vigor testing application, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

August-September 2005: Norman E. Borlaug International Science and Technology Fellows Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

2010-2011: Postdoctoral studies, Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops, Izmir, Turkey

Field of INTERESTS:

Grass seed production and quality, forage production and quality, natural meadows and pastures, forage utilization, new standards in forage seed production

RECENT PROJECTS:

2011-2013 SEE ERA 168 „Sustainable preservation of indigenous South East European legumes and their traditional food and feed products“

2012 – 2015 HERD Project (High Education, research and development for Western Balkans) financed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway: “The use of natural zeolite (clinoptilolite) for the treatment of farm slurry and as a fertilizer carrier”

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