[dr Petar M. Ristivojevic]

Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd
Department of Analytical Chemistry

Laboratory:   553, 551

E-mail:   ristivojevic@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal data

Born on March 20, 1985 in Valjevo, Serbia. Single. Speaks Serbian and English language.

Education and qualifications

2004-2009: Undergraduate studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2009-2014: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

2009-2010: Graduate researcher / Innovative Centre of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade, Ltd. (Belgrade, Serbia)

2011-2015: Associate researcher / Innovative Centre of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade, Ltd. (Belgrade, Serbia)

2015-2019: Scientific associate / Innovative Centre of the Faculty of Chemistry in Belgrade, Ltd. (Belgrade, Serbia)

2019-2020: Assistant with phd / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2020: Senior scientific associate / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2020: Assistant professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

Planar chromatography, bioautography, chemometrics, natural product research, food chemistry

Awards and merits

2014: Poster prize winner: International Symposium for HPTLC Lyon, France

2015: Research Grants - Short-Term Grants for Post docs by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2017: Travel grant for attending the International symposium for high-performance thin-layer chromatography, July 4-8th Berlin, Germany

2017: Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria for Post-docs by Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, (OeAD)

2018: National postdoctoral fellowship in 2018, awarded by Serbian Ministry of Education and Science

2020: COIMBRA Group Fellowship Award: Scholarship Programme for Young Researchers from the European Neighbourhood
University of Salamanca, Spain

Other activities

Member of Serbian Chemical Society.

Member of International scientific committee, HPTLC Conference Series member from November 1, 2022.

Member of Springer from January 1, 2023 - Springer. Editor in chief of the JPC - Journal of Planar Chromatography - Modern TLC (https://www.springer.com/journal/764/)

Member of the Committee for Promotion of the Faculty of Chemistry from October 10, 2019 till November 10, 2021.

Member of the Committee for Promotion of the Faculty of Chemistry from November 10, 2021 till November 9, 2023.

July, 2011; August/September, 2019: Research guest at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, in research group of prof. Gertrud Morlock, Germany

October 2015– March 2016: Postdoctoral researcher at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany in research group of prof. Gertrud Morlock.

March 2017-June 2017: Engaged as a teaching and research assistant at Ghent University Global Campus, South Korea in resarch group of prof. Tanja Cirkovic-Velickovic

2018-2019: Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna, Austria in research group of prof. Judith Rollinger.

Educational activities

Participation in research projects

Active projects:

  • 2018-2021: Twinning of research activities for the frontier research in the fields of food, nutrition and environmental 'omics (FoodEnTwin) – No. 810752
    project type:   Horizon 2020
    project is funded by: European Commission (Brusseles, Belgium)
  • 2021-2022: SKIN ANTI-AGEING POTENTIAL OF RUSSIAN AND SERBIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS (SAPORUS) – 6389927   (principal investigator)
    project type:   DIASPORA
    project is funded by: Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • 2021-2022: (Ă˝¸ź°Á) – 612-00-01187/2021-06
    project type:   MESTD Program Activities
    project is funded by: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia)

Finished projects:

  • 2011: – 172017
    project type:   National Fundamental Research Projects
    project is funded by: Ministry of Science and Technological Development (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • 2016-2019: Pattern recognition, classification and modelling of chromatographic and spectroscopic data in tracing biological activity and origin of foods
    project type:   International
  • 2016: Reinforcement of bilateral institution towards becoming a leading institution of bee products authenticity
    project type:   International
    project is funded by: Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa (Zagreb, Croatia), Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • 2016: Enhanced research capacity for reliable verification of bee products authenticity
    project type:   International
    project is funded by: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia), Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i sporta (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • 2018: New analytical approach to detect falsification of fruit products – 451-03-01732/2017-09-11   (principal investigator)
    project type:   International
    project is funded by: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia), DAAD (Berlin, Germany)
  • 2020: Natural, non-alcoholic propolis extracts for the prevention of upper-respiratory-tract infections and immune system boost in children – PoC-5699   (principal investigator)
    project type:   Proof of Concept
    project is funded by: Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia)

Author identification numbers

Representative references

Articles: 50 (20 as first or last author)

Citations (without self-citations): 1023

h-index: 20

Selected publications:

1. Aleksic I., Ristivojevic P., Pavic A., Radojević I., Čomić Lj. R., Vasiljevic B., D. Opsenica, Milojković-Opsenica D., Senerovic L., (2018): Anti-quorum sensing activity, toxicity in zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos and phytochemical characterization of Trapa natans leaf extracts. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 10, 148-158.

2. Ristivojević P., Dimkić I., Guzelmeric E., Trifković J., Knežević M., Berić T., Yesilada E., Milojković-Opsenica D., Stanković S., (2018): Profiling of Turkish propolis subtypes: Comparative evaluation of their phytochemical compositions, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. LWT- Food Science and Technology, 95, 367-379.

3. Ristivojević P. ,  Morlock G.E. (2018): Effect-directed classification of biological, biochemical and chemical profiles of 50 German beers. Food Chemistry, 260, 344-353.

4. Guzelmeric E., Ristivojević P., Trifković J., Dastan T., Yilmaz O., Cengiz O., Yesilada E., (2018): Authentication of Turkish propolis through HPTLC fingerprints combined with multivariate analysis and palynological data and their comparative antioxidant activity. LWT- Food Science and Technology, 87, 23-32.

5. Ristivojevic P., Trifković J., Stanković D. M., Radoičić A., Manojlović, D., Milojković-Opsenica D., (2018): Cyclic voltammetry and UV/Vis spectroscopy in combination with multivariate data analysis for the assessment of authenticity of poplar type propolis. Journal of Apicultural Research, 56, 559-568.

6. Trifković J., Andrić F., Ristivojević P., Guzelmeric E., Yesilada E., Analytical Methods in Tracing Honey Authenticity, (2017): J AOAC Int.. doi: 10.5740/jaoacint.17-0142.

7. Dimkić I., Stanković S., Nišavić M., Petković M., Ristivojević P., Djordje Fira, Tanja Berić, (2017): The Profile and Antimicrobial Activity of Bacillus Lipopeptide Extracts of Five Potential Biocontrol Strains, Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 925, 1-12.

8. Kustrin S., Morton D.W., Ristivojevic P., (2017): Probing into the Molecular Requirements for Antioxidant Activity in Plant Phenolic Compounds Utilizing a Combined Strategy of PCA and ANN, Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening, 20, 1-10.

9. Fichou D., Ristivojević P., Morlock G. E. (2016): Proof-of-Principle of rTLC, an Open-Source Software Developed for Image Evaluation and Multivariate Analysis of Planar Chromatograms. Analytical Chemistry, 88 (24), 12494–12501.

10. Ristivojević P., Morlock G.E. (2017): High-performance thin-layer chromatography combined with pattern recognition techniques as tool to distinguish thickening agents. Food Hydrocolloids, 64, 78-84.

11. Ristivojević P., Trifković J., Vovk I., Milojković-Opsenica D. (2017): Comparative study of different approaches for multivariate image analysis in HPTLC fingerprinting of natural products such as plant resin. Talanta, 162, 72–79.

12. Guzelmeric E., Ristivojević. P., Vovk I., Milojković-Opsenica, D., Yesilada E. (2017): Quality assessment of marketed chamomile tea products by a validated HPTLC method combined with multivariate analysis. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 132, 35–45.

13. Chasset T., Häbe T.T., Ristivojevic P., Morlock G.E. (2016): Profiling and classification of French propolis by multivariate data analysis of reversed phase planar chromatograms and scanning direct analysis in real time mass spectra. Journal of chromatography A, 1465, 197–204.

14. Dimkić I. *, Ristivojević P*., Janakiev T., Berić T., Trifković J., Milojković-Opsenica D., Stanković S. (2017): Phenolic profiles and antimicrobial activity of various plant resins and determination of botanical origin of Serbian propolis. Industrial Crops and Products, 94, 856-871. *equal contribution.

15. Agatonovic-Kustrin, S., Morton, D. W., Ristivojević, P (2016): Assessment of antioxidant activity in Victorian marine algal extracts using high performance thin-layer chromatography and multivariate analysis. Journal of Chromatography A, 1468, 228–235.

16. Agatonovic-Kustrin, S., Morton, D. W., Milojković-Opsenica, D., Ristivojević, P. (2016): Chemometric classification of wines according to their HPTLC fingerprints. European Food Research and Technology. First published online: September 1, 2016, 1-9.

17. Milojković-Opsenica, D., Ristivojević P., Trifković, J., Vovk, I., Lušić, D., Tešić, (2016): Ž. TLC fingerprinting and pattern recognition methods in the assessment of authenticity of poplar type propolis. Journal of Chromatographic Science, 54, 1077-1083.

18. Ristivojević, P.M., Morlock, G.E. (2016): The influence of pre-processing methods for multivariate image analysis in HPTLC fingerprinting. Journal of Planar Chromatography - Modern TLC, 29 (4), 310–317.

19. Ristivojević, P., Dimkić, I., Trifković, J., Berić, T., Vovk, I., Stanković, S., Milojković-Opsenica, D. (2016): Antimicrobial activity of Serbian propolis evaluated by means of MIC, HPTLC, bioautography and chemometrics. PLOS ONE., June 2016.

20. Ristivojević, P., Trifković, J., Gašić, U., Andrić, F., Nedić, N., Tešić, Ž., Milojković-Opsenica, D.M. (2015): Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UHPLC–LTQ OrbiTrap MS/MS) study of phenolic profile of Serbian poplar type propolis. Phytochemical analysis, 26 (2), 127-36.

21. Ristivojević, P., Trifković, J., Andrić, F., Milojković-Opsenica, D. (2015): Poplar type propolis: chemical composition, botanical origin and biological activity. Natural Product Communications, 10 (0), 1 – 2.