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Dr. Nastasijević received a PhD in food safety and epidemiology of foodborne diseases in 2008 at Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Novi Sad. He authored and co-authored 2 books, 2 book chapters, 54 journal papers, more than 40 conference papers, designed and delivered lectures at 25 international training courses in food safety management & zoonotic food borne diseases surveillance, monitoring and reporting under the auspices of WHO Mediterranean Zoonoses Control Centre (MZCC), Athens, Greece, WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO EURO), Copenhagen and EU Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection `Better Training for Safer Food` training programme,  1 patent. Dr. Nastasijević also received the IAFP award for prominent PhD scholars, and USDA ARS Norman-Borlaug Fellowship at US Meat Animal Research Center „Roman L. Hruska“, Clay Center, Nebraska.  Dr. Nastasijević was the project leader in three Serbian national projects funded by the Innovation Fund and Ministry of Science and Technological Development, leader of the work package in 4 national projects, Management Committee and Steering Committee member at 1 EU COST project related to development of meat safety assurance system (MSAS) founded on risk-based meat inspection, and also participated in capacity of Lead Researcher in a work package in the project of the EU Commission, 6^th Framework Programme. He led a regional Land`O`Lakes project regarding upgrading of the meat industry in North Macedonia and served as a Technical Officer, Food Safety and project manager at WHO Regional Office for Europe, being responsible for the implementation of the project related to capacity building of the national food control system in fisheries` sector in accordance with the EU acquis communautaire, in Albania. He also served as Associate Director and Head of Technology Transfer Department at the Institute of Meat Hygiene and Technology, Belgrade, and Secretary General of the national Council of Meat Technologists, being responsible for scientific-technical cooperation with meat industry stakeholders and applied research in food safety. Dr. Nastasijević is a member of the editorial board of 6 scientific journals and also served as a Lead Guest Editor for Special Issues of 3 prominent scientific journals. Reviewer in several high-caliber scientific journals: Elsevier Food Control, Elsevier Current Resarch in Food Science, Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, MDPI Foods, MDPI Animals, Taylor & Francis Food Review International, International Journal of Food Contamination. The main expertise of Dr Nastasijević is related to design and implementation of risk mitigation strategies and control measures for food(meat)borne pathogens in the meat production chain (including development and application of biosensors), foodborne diseases surveillance, monitoring and reporting, antimicrobial resistance, Longitudinally Integrated Safety Assurance (LISA) concept, meat hygiene, meat inspection, meat technology, veterinary public health, One Health, and capacity building of national food control system.