Dr. Nemanja Kuzmanovic

Positions

Leading the working group Phytopathology in Vegetable Crops, and investigation of fungal and bacterial pathogens in vegetable crops
Investigation and evaluation of vegetable variety resistances for the Federal Plant Variety Office (Bundessortenamt)
Development of sustainable crop protection concepts for vegetable production
DFG-project: “Interactions in the bacterial pathobiome associated with crown gall disease: coexistence or competition?”
Detection, identification and characterization of plant pathogenic bacteria
Epidemiology and ecology of plant diseases
Genetic diversity of and taxonomy of plant pathogenic bacteria

The German Phytomedicine Society (DPG)
The American Phytopathological Society (APS)
Subcommittee for taxonomy of rhizobia and agrobacteria (International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes)
Alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Associate Editor for the journals „Journal of Plant Pathology“, „Frontiers in Bacteriology“ and „Phytobiomes“
Review Editor for the Journal „Frontiers of Microbiology“
Ad-hoc Reviewer for various scientific journals

Born 1986 in Belgrade (Serbia)
2009 Diploma of Agricultural Sciences – Phytomedicine (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
2011-2012 JoinEU-SEE II Scholarship (Doctoral Student Exchange – 10 Months) of the European Commission, Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Programme, University of Bologna, Italy
2014 Doctoral Dissertation, Phytopathology (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
2014-2016 Research Associate (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
2017-2019 PostDoc/Humboldt-Scholar (Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig)
Since 2019 Senior Researcher (Julius Kühn Institute, Braunschweig)
Since 2023 Guest Lecturer at the Georg-August-University Göttingen (Module: Plant Pathogenic Bacteria)