Olivera M. Stamenković was born in Sokobanja on March 11th, 1989. She earned bachelor's degree in Biology (general) and master's degree in Ecology and nature protection, and finally a PhD in Biology on March 11th, 2022, by defending her doctoral dissertation entitled "Effects of multiple stressors on multitrophic biodiversity of pond ecosystems" at Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš.

From 2015 to 2019 she was a scholarship holder of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological development. In January 2020, she started the position at Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Niš as a Research Assistant, and then in March 2023, as a Research Associate.

Her research focuses on the effects of human activities on biodiversity in small, standing water bodies.

 Projects:

-AUQACOSM-plus Transitional Access:

Flipping the system - Impact of and recovering from long-term eutrophication in shallow lakes, Aarhus, Denmark, Jun 2023

Multiple stressors in the Anthropocene: effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on planktonic and benthic pond metacommunities, Budapest, Hungary, Jul-Aug 2023

Impacts of salinization and eutrophication on the structure and function of aquatic communities across a climate gradient, Evora, Portugal, Feb 2024 

- EUROPONDS, 3^rd Fresh Project supported by the European Federation of Freshwater Sciences (EFFS), 2020-2022, participant

-COST action SMIRES (Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams): short-term scientific mission at INREA, Lyon, France, Jan-March 2019

-Establishing conservation management of salt marshes in Serbia based on monitoring of macroinvertebrate community, 2015-2017, project leader (financed by the Rufford Foundation UK, Grant No. 8197-1)