Institute of Marine Biology

Biography - Pestorić Branka




Branka Pestorić, PhD,  graduated at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Montenegro in 2008.

She obtained the title of Doctor of Ecological Sciences at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade in 2013 with doctoral thesis titled "Zooplankton community dynamics in the Bay of Boka Kotorska". Since 2008, she has been working at the Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro in the field of zooplankton biology and ecology, population dinamics, marine ecology, food webs and assesment of trophic state.

She got scientific position as research associate in 2016.

She was a participant in the national project "Biological indicators of eutrophication in the Boka Kotorska Bay" in the period from 2006 to 2009 as well as in the national project entitled "The influence of anthropogenic factors on wildlife in the coastal zone of the Montenegrin coast” in the period 2012-2015.

She also participated in bilateral projects between Montenegro and Croatia related to the issue of eutrophication as well as non-native species and the impact of climate change on the composition of marine communities in the coastal area of the southern Adriatic. She has been a researcher in the first Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (BIO ICT) since January 2015.

She participated in several international projects carried out at the Institute of Marine Biology: Coconet (FP7 Project), Jaspper, DeFishGear, Balmas, Adriatic + and 4Pillars (IPA projects)

She is the author or co-author of 48 scientific papers published in international and national scientific journals, monographs, scientific presentations at conferences and symposia, expert studies and reports.

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