Jelena Gavrilov-+381 60 56 54 383
Education
2017 - 2018
Master Studies in the field of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology, University
of Belgrade
2012 – 2017
Graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department for Biology and
Ecology, Applied Biology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Working experience
June 2017 - Present
Production Editor at MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - an
academic open-access publisher, Belgrade, Serbia
2017
Social Media Manager for Claremont MakerSpace, USA
Volunteering experience
2016
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve, CA, USA
● Prepared plants for storage in herbarium and seeds for seed bank;
● Oversaw parts of the Coal Oil Reserve, educating the visitors on adequate
behavior in order to protect the area.
2016
Blog writer for www.startit.rs-
Coordinator of the research conducted in Natural Monument Sopotnica
● Determined 5 key areas of research related to myrmecology;
● Identified existent findings, and aligned research goals with this;
● Determined more than 200 individual ants, and created a database with their
characteristics and location-
President of the Josif Pancic Biology and Ecology Students’ Society, Novi Sad,
Serbia
● Managed the key activities of the Organization, overseeing budgeting,
programming and promotion;
● Community manager for Organization, regularly update of contents, writing posts
and notes, making Organization page more visible;
● Increased the number of Organization’s membership by 50% in one year;
● Stabilized Organizational income through novel partnerships.
Recognitions
Finalist in the competition for the best science and engineering communicator “FameLab
2011”
