Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic
Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic (PhD) is Professor of Agricultural Engineering in the Department of Agricultural Mechanisation and Irrigation Technology (AMI), where she is working since its establishment. She has served as the Head of Department, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Dean of Students and Director of International Relationships and Advancement (DIRA) and as Deputy Director of WACWISA Center of Excellence in Irrigation, Drainage and Sustainable Agriculture, funded by the World Bank in 2019. She is serving University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana in these various capacities since 1995. She is currently teaching about seven (7) different undergraduate and postgraduate courses across three different Schools and Faculties (FOAFCS, Natural Resources and Engineering) and supervises numerous MPhil and PhD thesis. Her research work covers different areas related to wastewater use in agriculture, feasibility and other technical studies for irrigation projects, weather information provision to small-scale farmers using mobile devices, integration of local and technical knowledge, etc. Prof Gordana has been collaborating with many local and international partners, including World Bank, GEF, GiZ, UNU, EU, USAID, DANIDA, NORHED, JICA and universities and research institutions across the African continent, as well as world-wide. She has published articles in referred journals, books, chapters in books, etc.
Biljana Basarin
Dr. Biljana Basarin is Full professor at Chair of Physical Geography within the Department of Geography, Tourism, and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Main research fields are related to climatology, climate change and natural hazards. She is the coordinator of one twinning H2020project EXtremeClimTwin (GA 952348) and participant on numerous EU funded research projects focusing on climate change. She is co-author of more than 20 papers in international scientific journals with impact factor, co-author of 1 book, co-author of 1 contribution in book chapter, and more than 60 contributions in other journals, conference abstracts or conference proceedings.