CV

PhD in Demography

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

• Premature Mortality in Serbia

MSc in Social Sciences and Computing

The University of Belgrade, Serbia

• Application of the R Programming Language in Computer Analysis of Social Networks - Example of the 2016 Serbian Elections

MSc in Demography

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

• Mortality in Serbia and the European Union - A Comparative Analysis

BS in Demography

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

• Role of State in the Demographic Development - The Example of the United States

Senior Research Associate

Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade

• Conduct research on demographic and social issues.
• Publish peer-reviewed papers.

Research Associate

Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade

• Produced the Demographic Challenges in Serbia virtual exhibition.
• Conducted multiple research projects.
• Published peer-reviewed papers.

Director of Technology

Catalyst Balkans, Belgrade

• Directed technical strategy for the organization's regional platforms, including GivingBalkans, Donacije.rs, and Neprofitne.rs.
• Built and scaled the digital infrastructure behind regional civic mobilization campaigns.
• Led CiviCRM deployments for regional nonprofits, covering donor management, volunteer tracking, and communications.
• Integrated payment gateways and automated recurring-donation processing for online fundraising.
• Managed a cross-functional IT and data team, technology budgets, and vendor relationships.

Chief Data Scientist

Catalyst Balkans, Belgrade

• Member of the senior management in charge of strategic decisions, directing the data and IT teams.
• Led the development of the data pipelines behind the Giving Balkans database, structuring regional philanthropy data collected since 2014 for research and API access.
• Led the development of a media-article relevance classifier for regional languages, substantially reducing manual data entry.
• Led the integration of large language models into the classification and tagging of philanthropy and media data across the Western Balkans.
• Developed the interactive data visualization tools used in the annual regional philanthropy reports.

Research Assistant

Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade

• Published ten peer-reviewed papers.
• Defended a doctoral dissertation on premature mortality in Serbia.

CiviCRM Product Owner

Catalyst Balkans, Belgrade

• Developed and implemented CiviCatalyst, a SaaS CRM product for nonprofits in the Western Balkans, based on CiviCRM open-source project.
• Developed GivingBalkans web application, a philanthropy intelligence tool.
• Worked with dozens of civil society organizations across the Western Balkans on adopting the platform and adapting it to their donor management and communication needs.

Volunteer Researcher

Institute of Social Sciences and The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography

• Contributed to the project "Researching Demographic Phenomena for the Purpose of Public Policies in Serbia".

Demonstrator

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography

• Taught lab sessions in Business Statistics.
• Taught lab sessions in Computing.

Trust and Usage of LLMs in the BCMS Language Sphere

Open Society Foundations, Western Balkans

• Role: Principal Investigator.
• Outcome: Trust Over Creepiness — AI Chatbot Perceptions in Balkan Countries (International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction), with the four-country survey data, code, and materials openly released on OSF.

Social Sciences Advancement Initiative

The Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, through the Serbia Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (SAIGE)

• Role: Principal Investigator.
• Outcome: Generational Divide in AI Adoption for Academic Writing — Evidence From Serbian Social Scientists (Social Science Computer Review), based on a survey of social scientists in Serbia.
• Outcome: a training program for early-career social scientists in Serbia and the wider Balkans, combining online courses with one-on-one mentorship in academic writing, publishing, data visualization, and the responsible use of AI in research.

Alternative Energy in Serbia? - “Yes, but Not in My Backyard!”

Open Society Foundation, Serbia — “Serbia and Global Challenges: Towards Fairer and More Democratic Public Policies 2” program

• Role: Principal Investigator.
• Outcome: Public perceptions of fossil and alternative energy in Serbia — Between NIMBYism and nationalism (Energy Policy), together with a Serbian-language policy brief on the energy transition.

Predupredimo.rs

Open Society Foundation, Serbia — “Serbia and Global Challenges: Towards Fairer and More Democratic Public Policies” program

• Role: Principal Investigator.
• Outcome: predupredimo.rs, a public interactive tool mapping premature mortality and PM2.5 air pollution across Serbian municipalities.

Premature Mortality as a Neglected Demographic Challenge

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Belgrade

• Invited talk at the first panel convened by the Academy newly formed Board for the Study of Population.

Using R for Social Network Analysis of Philanthropy — Leveraging Relational Data for Smarter Giving

satRday Belgrade 2018, Museum of Science and Technology, Belgrade

• Conference talk on using R and graph theory with relational data to map donor and beneficiary networks in the Western Balkans.

Deputy Editor

Stanovništvo (Journal)

• Led the revision of the journal editorial policies and its successful application for indexing in Web of Science.
• Introduced anti-plagiarism screening into the peer-review workflow.
• Extended the journal online platform with full-text article display, automated reviewer certificates, a customized submission process, and theme improvements.

Member of the Ethics Committee

Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade

Member of the Presidium (Secretary)

The Association of Demographers of Serbia

• Organized the International Scientific Conference "Population in Post-Yugoslav Countries: (Dis)similarities and Perspective", held in Belgrade in April 2024 with participants from eight countries.

Member

The Association of Demographers of Serbia