Mlađen Jovanović

Associate Professor

Short biography:

Date and place of birth: April 2, 1974, Novi Sad
Graduated in 2000, completed his Master's in 2005, and defended his doctoral dissertation in 2012 entitled Middle Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences of Vojvodina at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad.

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Academic ranks:

  • 2006 – Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad
  • 2013 – Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Research areas:

  • Loess-paleosol sequences
  • Quaternary paleogeography
  • Paleomagnetism
  • Large Quaternary vertebrates
  • Geology
  • Geomorphology
  • History of science

Other important information

  • Foreign languages: English, Russian, German

Membership in organizations:

  • INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research)
  • ProGEO (European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage)
  • EGU (European Geoscience Union)
  • Serbian Geological Society, President of the Quaternary Commission
  • Matica srpska, Committee for Natural Sciences

Teaching engagement

  • Geology
  • General geology with mineralogy (practical exercises)
  • Hydrogeology
  • Geomorphology (practical exercises)
  • Quaternary paleogeography
  • Field methods in geoecology
  • Geomorphological and pedological georisks
  • Climatic and environmental changes during the Quaternary

Selected references and projects

  • Jovanović, M., Gaudenyi, T., O'Hara-Dhand, Smalley, I. (2014): Karl Caesar von Leonhard (17791862), and the beginnings of loess research in the Rhine valley. Quaternary International 334-335: 4-9.
  • Marković, S.B., Timar-Gabor, A., Stevens, T., Hambach, U., Popov, D., Tomić, N., Obreht, I., Jovanović, M., Lehmkuhl, Kels, H., Marković, R., Gavrilov, M.B. (2014) Environmental dynamics and luminescence chronology from the Orlovat loesspalaeosol sequence (Vojvodina, northern Serbi). Journal of Quaternary Sciences 29 (2): 189-199
  • Gocke, M., Gulyás, S., Hambach, U., Jovanović, M., Kovács, B., Marković, S.B., Wiesenberg, G.L.B (2014): Biopores and root features as new tools for improving paleoecological understanding of terrestrial sediment-paleosol sequences. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 394:4258
  • Gaudenyi, T., Jovanovic M. (2011): Franz Ritter von Hauer's work and one of the first loess map of Central Europe. Quaternary International 234: 4-9, ISSN: 1040-6182
  • Antoine, P, Rousseau, D.D., Fuchs, M., Hatte, C., Gauthier, C., Markovic, S., Jovanovic, M., Gaudenyi, T., Moine, O., Rossignol., J. (2009): High-resolution record of the last climatic cycle in the southern Carpathian Basin (Surduk, Vojvodina, Serbia) Quaternary International 198: 19-36. ISSN: 1040-6182
  • Markovic, B.S., Hambach, U., Catto, N., Jovanovic, M., Buggle, B., Machalett, B., Zoeller, L., Glaser, B., Frechen, M. (2009): Middle and Late Pleistocene loess sequences at Batajnica, Vojvodina, Serbia. Quaternary International 198: 255-266. ISSN: 1040-6182
  • Markovic, S.B., Bokhorst, M., Vandenberghe, J., McCoy, W.D., Oches, E.A., Hambach, U., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanovic, M., Zoeller, L., Stevens, T., Machalett, B. (2008): Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences in the Vojvodina region, North Serbia. Journal of Quaternary Science 23, 73-84 ISSN 1099-1417
  • Markovic, S.B., Oches, E., Sümegi, P., Jovanovic, M., Gaudenyi, T. (2006): An introduction to the Upper and Middle Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences of Ruma section (Vojvodina, Yugoslavia). Quaternary International, 149, 80-86
  • Markovic, S.B., Oches, E.A., McCoy, W.D., Savic, S., Gaudenyi, T., Jovanovic, M., Stevens, T., Walther, R., Ivanisevic, P. and Galovic, Z. (2005): Paleoclimate record in the Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequence at Petrovaradin Brickyard (Vojvodina, Serbia). Geologica Carpathica 56, 6, 545-552
  • Markovic, S.B., Oches, E.A., Jovanovic, M., Gaudenyi, T., Hambach, U., Zöller, L., Sümegi, P., (2004): Paleoclimate record in the Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequence at Miseluk (Vojvodina, Serbia). Quaternaire 15, 4: 361-368.
  • Loess plateaus in Serbia (MNTR Project No 146019), Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management 2006-
  • Loess-paleosol sequences of Vojvodina – key to understanding paleoclimatic and paleoecological transition on the European continent. Project funded by the Provincial Secretariat for Science and Technological Development, 2006-
  • Atlas of Settlements of Vojvodina, Matica srpska, 2009-
  • Analysis of abrupt Dansgaard-Oeschger climatic fluctuations in loess-paleosol sequences of Serbia. French-Serbian bilateral program "Pavle Savić" MNTR and Recherche et Enterprises (EGIDE), France (2004-2005)
  • Geomorphological Map of Vojvodina project, Institute of Geography, 2002-2003.
  • Pedodiversity and pedotransfer functions in the soil resource management system of Serbia (MNTR Project No 1746), Institute of Soil Science, Belgrade, 2001-2004.