1.Work experience:
2016-present: Research Fellow (Research Assistant Professor), Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade.
2013-2016: Research Assistant, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade.
2010-2013: Research Trainee, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade.
2010: Teaching Assistant (part-time hired), Department of Animal Ecology and Geography, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade.
2.Education:
2009-2015: PhD in Ecology, Biogeography and Biodiversity Protection (Hydroecology), Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. PhD thesis: „PhD dissertation “Population Dynamic and Ectotoxicology of the Black Bullhead (Ameiurus melas Rafinesque, 1820) in Sava Lake”
2001-2008: BSc in Ecology and environmental protection, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. Graduate thesis: “Environmental impact of the mussel farm Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamark, 1819) in the Dražin Vrt locality (Bokokotorska bay)”. GPA: 9.2.
2007: Student of International Graduate School of Conservation Biology, Center for Marine Research, Rudjer Boskovic Institute (Rovinj, Croatia)
3.Other professional activities
Посебан допринос
- As a member of NGO “Ekoforum” and Network “Natura2000 Resource Center of Serbia” participated in numerous workshops: Project Cicle Management, Raising Institutional Capacities of Environmental NGOs in the Western Balkans, ABC on EU and Natura2000 etc.
- 2011: participated in “Researchers Night”
- 2010: participated in the first TEDx Belgrade Conference and Science Festival, as a speaker
- 2009: participated in the first OSCE Conference on Environmental Protection (OSCE Model Serbia 2009).
- 2005: as a student participated in the project “Benthic biocenoses (bottom settlement) of the coastal sea of Montenegro”, Institute of Marine Biology (Kotor, Montenegro).
Teaching engagement:
- 2010: Teaching Associate, Department of Ecology and Geography of Animals, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
- 2020: Guest lecturer on the subject “Applied Ecology”, Department of Ecology and Geography of Animals, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
Current:
- 2020-2021: Mass removal of the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) – Possibilities for self-sustaining commercial farming in Serbia (2nd Rufford Small Grant) https://www.rufford.org/projects/milica_ja%C4%87imovi%C4%87_0
- 2019-2023: The European Aquatic Animal Tracking Network (COST Action) https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18102/#tabs|Name:overview
- 2018-2020: Obtaining data and other services in order to establish the ecological network of the European Union Natura 2000 as part of the ecological network of the Republic of Serbia (Institute for nature conservation of Serbia)
- 2018-2020: Obtaining data and other services in order to continue compiling red lists of individual groups of organisms of flora, fauna and fungi in the Republic of Serbia (Institute for nature conservation of Serbia)
Past:
- 2018-2019: Black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) in Ponjavica Nature Park: biological characteristics, effects on native ichthyofauna, mass removal and experimental rearing (Rufford Small Grant)
- 2018-2019: Operational monitoring of surface and groundwater of the Republic of Serbia, Lot 1 – Operational monitoring of surface water (2018-2019)
- 2011-2019: Fishes as water quality indicators in open waters of Serbia (OI173045) (Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia)
- 2011-2019: Monitoring and Modeling of Rivers and Reservoirs (MORE) – Physical, Chemical, Biological and Morphodynamic Parameters (ТР37009) (Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia)
- 2012-2016: Network Lake Observations in Europe (NETLAKE)
- 2012-2013: Investigation and evaluation of the state of fishery resources in the Danube and Sava rivers in Belgrade – basis for the monitoring program development (Institute for Multidisciplinary Research)
- 2012-2013: Harmonization of methods for the monitoring of qualitative and quantitative composition of the fish stock of large rivers (680-00-140/2012-09/02). Bilateral cooperation between the Republic of Serbia and the Slovak Republic
- 2009: Population research of alien, invasive fish species in Sava Lake.
- Lenhardt, M., Smederevac-Lalić, M., Hegediš, A., Skorić, S., Cvijanović, G., Višnjić-Jeftić, Ž., Đikanović, V., Jovičić, K., Jaćimović, M., Jarić, I. (2020). Human Impacts on Fish Fauna in the Danube River in Serbia: Current Status and Ecological Implications. In book: Human Impact on Danube Watershed Biodiversity in the XXI Century.
- Jaćimović, M., Lenhardt, M., Krpo-Ćetković, J., Jarić, I., Gačić, Z., Hegediš, A. (2019). Boom‐bust like dynamics of invasive black bullhead (Ameiurus melas) in Lake Sava (Serbia). Fisheries Management and Ecology 26(2), 153-164.
- Jarić I., Smederevac-Lalić M., Jovičić K., Jaćimović, M., Cvijanović G., Lenhardt M., Kalauzi A. (2016). Indicators of unsustainable fishery in the Middle Danube. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 25, 86-98.
- Jarić, I., Jaćimović, M., Cvijanović, G, Knežević-Jarić, J., Lenhardt, M. (2015). Demographic flexibility influences colonization success: profiling invasive fish species in the Danube River by the use of population models. Biological Invasions 17, 219-229.
- Jaćimović, M., Krpo-Ćetković, J., Lenhardt, M., Višnjić-Jeftić, Ž., Jarić, I., Gačić, Z., Hegediš, A. (2015). Elemental concentrations in different tissues od European perch and black bullhead from Sava lake (Serbia). Slovenian Veterinary Research 52(2), 57-65.
- Jovičić K., Lenhardt M., Višnjić-Jeftić Ž., Đikanović V., Skorić S., Smederevac-Lalić M., Jaćimović, M., Gačić Z., Jarić I., Hegediš A. (2014). Assessment of Fish Stocks and Elemental Pollution in the Danube, Sava and Kolubara Rivers on the territory of the City of Belgrade, Serbia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 7, 179-184.
- Lenhardt, M., Jarić, I., Višnjić-Jeftić, Ž., Skorić, S., Gačić, Z., Pucar, M. and Hegediš, A. (2013). Concentrations of 17 elements in muscle, gills, liver and gonads of five economically important fish species from the Danube River. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems 407(2), 1-10
