University Banja Luka

Milan Cvetković is currently a full professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka. It deals with agronomic and physiological aspects of modern production of fruits. During his work in Serbia, he was engaged as a national consultant for fruit production within the FAO project (2002 - 2004). At the Faculty of Agriculture, he held the position of vice dean for scientific research and international cooperation. He is currently the head of the Institute of Horticulture. He was the institutional coordinator of FP7, TEMPUS and ERASMUS+ projects at the University of Banja Luka. He was a contact person of project VIRAL - the first leading ERASMUS+ project at the University of Banja Luka. He was a coordinator and participant in several domestic projects. As a Fulbright scholarship, he spent eight months at the Michigan State University and the University of Oregon. As part of FAO and World Bank projects, he stayed in Georgia and India as a consultant for fruit production. He published many scientific and professional papers. Miljan is member of ISHS.

Zoran Djuric is full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, as well as a Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology. His main areas of interest are computer security and privacy, particularly in software security, network security and data protection, as well as PKI systems, cryptography, e-payment systems and protocols, programming languages, web technologies, machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Prof. Djuric participated in more than 200 projects, including TEMPUS, HERD, projects supported by WUS Austria, World Bank, USAID, and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. He was involved in the design and implementation of a number of software applications and information systems for various companies and institutions.He published more than 70 journal and conference papers, and he is the author of three books. He is founder and coordinator of S-CUBE, a research group operating in the field of Software Systems and Security formed within the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Banja Luka. Prof. Djuric is a member of IEEE.

Ljiljana Topalić- Trivunović is currently a full professor at the Faculty of Technology, University of Banja Luka. It deals with biology, basic and food microbiology, and microbiological control. She was a coordinator and participant in several domestic and a participant in few international projects. She is member of Serbian Society for Microbiology and Association of Technology Engineers of Republic of Srpska. She published many scientific and professional papers.

Tatjana Jovanović-Cvetković is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Agriculture. Her research field is Viticulture and Enology. She was engaged in FP7 – FOCUS BALKAN project in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a team member, as well as in TEMPUS and ERASMUS+ projects at the University of Banja Luka. She was coordinator of the project "The oenological potential of clones of Riesling cultivated in the area of Ukrina vineyards". She published many scientific and professional papers. "The research is particularly focused on working with interspecies hybrids and analyzing their potential for use in wine production with reduced pesticide involvement in vineyard protection."

Aleksandar Savić is currently a associate professor at the Faculty of Technology, University of Banja Luka. It deals with industrial and food microbiology, and production of alcoholic drinks, wine, etc. He was a coordinator and participant in several domestic and a participant in few international projects. He took part in the drafting of legal and by-laws related to the production of wine and strong alcoholic beverages and is the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV). He is member of Serbian Society for Microbiology. He published many scientific and professional papers.

Sanda Stanivuković is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka. Her field of research is postharvest technology, packing and quality control of fresh and packaged horticultural products. As a young researcher, she graduated, completed a master's degree and a doctorate in the field of studying production factors, fruit quality control after harvest, during storage to the market. She was a coordinator and participant in several domestic projects, but also and a participant in few international projects in this area. She was a participant in few COST actions whose research is based on the study of biology, technology, packaging and fruit maintenance after harvest. Sanda has published many scientific papers and she is the author of the book "Harvest and storage of fruit". She was coordinator for teaching issues of the combined study program of the second cycle of academic studies "Preservation and sustainable use of genetic resources". Currently, Sanda is member of ECPGR and Scientific Fruit Growing Society of Republika Srpska.

Tanja Krmpot, ma. Tanja is working as a Senior Assistant at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Banja Luka. She is currently attending doctoral studies at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad. She worked as a young researcher at the Agricultural Institute of the Republic of Srpska, and after that she got a job at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka, as an Assistant, then a Senior Assistant in the scientific field of Genetics and Plant breeding.  She has participated in over ten international and scientific projects. She has published several scientific papers and is the co-author of a textbook. She attended professional training in the field of molecular genetics in Sweden, Slovenia and Croatia. She is a member of the Society of Geneticists and the Association of Geneticists of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Biljana Kelečević  is currently assistant professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka. Within the field of plant protection, she specialized in plant determination, herbology and weed control. At the Faculty of Agriculture, she was a secretary of the international symposium on agricultural sciences AgroReS. She was a participant in several domestic projects, as well as a member of the working group of an international project. She participated in a ERASMUS+ Programme during which she stayed in Romania and Slovakia and attend the trenning in the field of Food Safety in Latvia. She published several scientific and professional papers. Biljana is member of Weed Science Society of Serbia.