Infrastructure for separation and analysis of essential oils and other extracts from aerial and underground parts of plants

DATA ABOUT RESPONDENT

Full name
Prof Dr Gordana STOJANOVIĆ
Name of your institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Nis
Institutions’s country
Serbia
Institution’s address
Visegradska 33 18000 Nis Serbia
Are you responsible on behalf of the institution
Yes
Your position in the institution
  • Research Infrastructure Manager (administrative)
Your telephone number
+381 18 533014
Your email address
gocast@pmf.ni.ac.rs
Institution's website address
http://www.pmf.ni.ac.rs

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Research infrastrcture website
http://www.pmf.ni.ac.rs
Organisation / institution type of RI
  • University/Higher education

Main scientificdomain: Life sciences

Category: Other Life Sciences RI

Other scientific and technological domains served by RI
  • Life Sciences
RI type
  • Single-sited
Short description

The Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics is scientific and educational institution that provides academic studies and develops scientific research and proficient work on natural sciences and mathematics fields.  The Faculty was founded in 1999 and it consists of five departments: Mathematics and informatics, Physics, Chemistry, Geography, Biology and ecology. Presently, Faculty employs 80 teachers and 75 associates.
Since its founding, the total number of 2070 students graduated at the Faculty, 155 students received their Magister degree and 77 students received their Ph.D.  degree.

The Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics prepares its students for the number of activities in the industry, IT companies, State bodies, stock exchanges, banks, tourist organizations, and for the variety of other activities.


The scientific research, besides the education, represents the fundamental part of the Faculty activities. The Faculty’s stuff is involved in many scientific projects.

OPERATION AND UPGRADE OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Years in operation
  • More than 25 years
Comment on cooperation
Even though the research infrastructure within the faculty is open to external users, the level of international cooperation is still not developed sufficiently. The contacts, especially with the countries from the region, exists, but the concrete cooperation is still not developed. Also, the cooperation with industry is rather low.

STAFF, INTERNAL USERS AND EXTERNAL USERS

FINANCE

Main sources of funding for setting up RI or important equipment
  • National public funding
Main sources of funding for operational costs
  • National public funding

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

RESEARCH SERVICES PROVIDED TO USERS AND RESEARCHERS

Research services provided to users and researchers
Main areas of research, conducted by the researchers of this institution are in the fields of Isolation, characterization and synthetic modification of some essential oil and extract constituents. As for the research equipment, it has at its disposal: GS/MSD and HPLC (Agilent Technologies, USA)

Entry created by Davor Kozmus on November 23, 2012
Modified on November 23, 2012