Biography
Dubravka Savic, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade (Serbia). She has great experience (27 years) in giving lectures in Vegetable Production at several Departments and levels of studies (Academic, Master and Doctorial) at the Faculty. She did her MSc and PhD theses in Plant Physiology. During her scientific and practical work, she has been connecting vegetable production (indoors and outdoors) and plant physiology. She has participated in numerous local and EU scientific projects, and has always improved her knowledge attending various trainings/courses/ seminars in the field she has been responsible for, and in the fields, which are indirectly related to her main research work. The main universities/scientific institutions/companies where she has been improving her knowledge are in the Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Germany and Greece. In 2007/08, she worked as Managing Director of Prime Agroconsult d.o.o. (branch of the company DLV Plant, from the Netherlands).At the same time, she successfully participated in official trade missions that were organizedby the Dutch Government, for Serbian vegetable and soft fruits sectors. Since 2004, she has been involved in implementation of standard EUREPG.A.P./GLOBALG.A.P. and in 2011, she became an approved GLOBALG.A.P. Train-The-Public-Trainerfor fresh fruits and vegetables (www.globalgap.org/uk_en/Profiles/Savic/). Her further goal is to become an auditor for an approved Certification Body.
Research Interest
· Plant productivity, Growth parameters (RGR, NAR, LAR, LAI, SLA, etc.), Photosynthesis, Photosynthetic active radiation, Light interception, Mineral nutrition.
· Research and regulation of climate control in greenhouse production of vegetables.
· Soilless production of vegetable crops (tomato, pepper, cucumber, lettuce).
· Monitoring growth parameters during vegetable production and, developing growth models.
· Food safety.
· Innovations in vegetable production and seedling production of vegetable species.
· Computer control, Monitoring and regulation of climatic conditions and mineral nutrition of vegetables in greenhouses.
· Enzyme activity in infected vegetable plants by viruses (as TMV virus).
· Partial root zone drying method at vegetables production.
