[dr Dusanka M. Milojkovic Opsenica]

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

Phone:   011-2639357, 011-3336733

Phone (local):   733

Office:   518

Laboratory:   519

E-mail:   dusankam@chem.bg.ac.rs

Personal data

Born on January 26, 1962 in Lebane, Serbia. Married. Speaks Serbian, English and Russian language.

Education and qualifications

1980-1985: Undergraduate studies - Chemistry / Prirodno-matematički fakultet (Belgrade, Serbia)

1988-1991: Master of science studies - Chemistry / Prirodno-matematički fakultet (Belgrade, Serbia)

1991-1993: Doctoral academic (PhD) studies - Chemistry / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

History of employment

1988: Graduate assistant / Prirodno-matematički fakultet (Belgrade, Serbia)

1988-1992: Graduate assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

1992-1996: Teaching assistant / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

1994-1999: Research associate / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

1998-2009: Assistant professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2009-2013: Associate professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2013: Full professor / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

2021: Principal research fellow / University of Belgrade - Faculty of Chemistry (Belgrade, Serbia)

Scientific interest

Analytical chemistry, Chromatography, Mechanisms of chromatographic separation, The application of statistical methods to analytical chemistry

Other activities

Member of Serbian Chemical Society from 1988 - Section for analytical chemistry.

Vice Dean for Finance from April 9, 2003 till January 30, 2005.

Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry from October 13, 2005 till September 30, 2009.

Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry from January 21, 2016 till January 20, 2019.

Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry from January 21, 2019 till January 13, 2022.

Member of the from December 10, 2020 till January 10, 2024.

Member of the Ethical Committee from July 12, 2021.

Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry from January 13, 2022.

Member of the Committee for Capital Equipment Management from November 10, 2022.

Member of the from January 11, 2024.

Educational activities

Participation in research projects

Active projects:

Finished projects:

  • 2010: Reinforcement of the Faculty of Chemistry, Uvinersity of Belgrade, towards becoming a centre of excellence in the region of West Balkans for molecular biotechnology and food research – FCUB-ERA 256716
    project type:   International
    project is funded by: European Union (Brusseles, Belgium)
  • 2011: – 172017   (principal investigator)
    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)
  • 2018: 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)
  • 2018: New analytical approach to detect falsification of fruit products – 451-03-01732/2017-09-11
    project type:   International
    project is funded by: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia), DAAD (Berlin, Germany)
  • 2019: Updating the course curriculum of Food Analysis in the direction of controlling food safety and quality as well as determining authenticity and content of phytochemicals – 451-02-02004/29/2019-06   (principal investigator)
    project type:   National Development Projects
    project is funded by: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • 2021: SKIN ANTI-AGEING POTENTIAL OF RUSSIAN AND SERBIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS (SAPORUS) – 6389927
    project type:   DIASPORA
    project is funded by: Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • 2020: Natural, non-alcoholic propolis extracts for the prevention of upper-respiratory-tract infections and immune system boost in children – PoC-5699
    project type:   Proof of Concept
    project is funded by: Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia)

Author identification numbers

Representative references

  1. Sandra Šegan, Jelena Trifković, Tatjana Verbić, Dejan Opsenica, Mario Zlatović, James Burnett, Bogdan Šolaja, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, Correlation between structure, retention, property, and activity of biologically relevant 1,7-bis(aminoalkyl)diazachrysene derivatives, J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 72 (2013) 231-239.  
  2. Kečkeš, S.,Gašić, U., Ćirković Veličković, T., Natić, M., Milojković-Opsenica, D., & Tešić, Ž. The determination of phenolic profiles of Serbian unifloral honeys using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography/high resolution accurate mass spectrometry. Food Chem., 138 (2013) 32-40.
  3. Maja Natić, Dragana Dabić, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, Biljana Dojčinović, Goran Roglić, Dragan Manojlović and Živoslav Tešić, Development and validation of a simple thin-layerchromatographic method for the analysis of p-chlorophenol in treated wastewater, J. Serb. Chem. Soc. 77(11) (2012) 1649–1659. 
  4. Tomislav Tosti, Maja Natić, Dragana Dabić, Dragana Milić, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, Živoslav Tešić, Structure-retention relationship study of polyoxygenated steroids, J. Sep. Sci. 2012, 35 (2012) 2693-2698.
  5. Khalil Salem A. M. Shweshein, Aleksandra Radoičić, Filip Andrić, Živoslav Lj. Tešić, and Dušanka M. Milojković-Opsenica, Hydrophilic interaction planar chromatography of geometrical isomers of selected Co(III) complexes, J. Liq. Chromatogr. & Rel. Technol., 35 (2012) 1289–1297.
  6. Kristina B. Lazarević, Filip Andrić, Jelena Trifković, Živoslav Tešić, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, Characterisation of Serbian unifloral honeys according to their physicochemical parameters, Food Chem., 132 (2012) 2060-2064.
  7. El Hadi M. A. Rabtti, Maja M. Natić, Dušanka M. Milojković-Opsenica,Jelena Đ. Trifković, Ivan M. Vučković, Vlatka E. Vajs and Živoslav Lj. Tešić, RP TLC-Based Lipophilicity Assessment of Some Natural and Synthetic Coumarins.  J. Braz. Chem. Soc., 23(3) (2012) 522-530.
  8. Radmila Stikic, Djordje Glamoclija, Mirjana Demin, Biljana Vucelic-Radovic, Zorica Jovanovic, Dusanka Milojkovic-Opsenica, Sven-Erik Jacobsen, Mirjana Milovanovic, Agronomical and nutritional evaluation of quinoa seeds (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) as an ingredient in bread formulations, J. Cereal Sci. 55(2) (2012) 132-138.
  9. Sandra Šegan, Filip Andrić, Aleksandra Radoičić, Dejan Opsenica, Bogdan Šolaja, Mario Zlatović, Dušanka M. Milojković-Opsenica, Correlation between structure, retention and activity of cholic acid derived cis-trans isomeric bis-steroidal tetraoxanes, J. Sep. Sci., 34(19) (2011) 2659-2667. 
  10. Dragana Dabić, Maja Natić, Zdravko Džambaski, Rade Marković, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, Živoslav Tešić, Quantitative structure–retention relationship of new N-substituted 2-alkylidene-4-oxothiazolidines, J. Sep. Sci., 34(18) (2011) 2397-2404. 
  11. Dragana Dabić, Maja Natić, Zdravko Džambaski, Milovan Stojanović, Rade Marković, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, and Živoslav Tešić, Estimation of lipophilicity of N-substituted 2-alkylidene-4-oxothiazolidines by means of reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography, J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Technol., 34 (2011) 791-804. T. Tosti, M. Natić, A. Smoliński, D. Milić, D. Milojković-Opsenica and Ž. Tešić, Study of retention of 31 polyoxygenated steroids by normal- and reversed-phase  thin-layer chromatography, Acta Chromatographica, (2011),  23(3),  429-445. 
  12. Sanja Ilić, Maja Natić, Dragana Dabić, Dušanka Milojković-Opsenica, and Živoslav Tešić, 2D TLC Separation of Phenols by Use of RP-18 Silica Plates with Aqueous and Non-Aqueous Mobile Phases, J. Planar Chromatogr., 24 (2011) 93-98. 
  13. Jelena Đ. Trifković, Filip Lj. Andrić, Petar Ristivojević, Deana Andrić, Živoslav Lj. Tešić and Dušanka M. Milojković-Opsenica, Structure-retention relationship study of arylpiperazines by linear multivariate modeling, J. Sep. Sci., 33 (2010) 2619-2628. 
  14. Filip Lj. Andrić, Jelena Đ. Trifković, Aleksandra D. Radoičić, Sandra B. Šegan, Živoslav Lj. Tešić, Dušanka M. Milojković-Opsenica, Detrmination of the soil-water partition coefficient (log KOC) of some mono- and poly-substituted phenols by reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography, Chemosphere 81 (2010) 299-305.