Since 2019 Principal investigator at Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (MELIS-UPF) Barcelona, Spain

2020-2025 Ramon y Cajal research fellow at MELIS-UPF, Barcelona, Spain

2015-2018 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America Postdoctoral Fellow at WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute), Melbourne, Australia.

2012-2014 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at WEHI, Melbourne, Australia.

2011 PhD in Biomedicine, IRB (Institute for Research in Biomedicine), Barcelona, Spain.

2005 B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Physiology, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

2003 Master student at the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratories) Hamburg, Germany.

Fellowships

2020 – 2025    Ramon y Cajal Research Fellowship

2015 – 2018    Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America Postdoctoral Fellowship

2012 – 2014    Marie Curie Fellowship 

2007 – 20011  Contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores (FPI)

Awards

2019 IRB-Barcelona Alumni award

2018 Centenary Medical Innovation Prize, Australian medical award to early career scientists judged by the international panel of the reviewers 

2017 Innovation award, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) 

2017 Seminar prize, for the best WEHI institute seminar of the year 

2015  WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) conference travel award

2015  Craven & Shearer Award to outstanding female postdocs

2014  Page Betheras Award, awarded to outstanding female postdocs for technical assistance during maternity leave

2012  Lady Tata Memorial Trust postdoctoral award

2011  University of Barcelona Special Award for Doctoral Studies (Premio Extraordinario)

Research funding

2022 – 2025    Spanish Government project grant. Plan Estatal. Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento. 

2019 – 2021    Spanish Government project grant. Plan Estatal. Proyectos de Retos en Biomedicina. 

2019 – 2024    La Caixa project grant, Captació de Talent Investigador

2019 – 2021    Cancer Australia and Cure Cancer Australia project grant

2014 – 2015    Cancer Australia and Cure Cancer Australia project grant 

Editorial Responsibilities

Since 2020  Associated editor for Cell Death and Discovery, Springer Nature Journal

Teaching

Since 2022  Lecturer and Coordinator, Model Organisms in Biomedical Research course, Medicine degree, UPF

Since 2022  Coordinator, The Master of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences, run by the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) 

Since 2020   Lecturer and Coordinator, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics degree, UPF-ESCI

Since 2019  Lecturer, Integrative Biomedicine, Human Biology degree, UPF

Since 2019  Lecturer and Coordinator, Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies, UPF Master in Biomedicine

Since 2019  Lecturer, Master in Senology, UB