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Igor Tomašević is a Serbian food scientist who is a Full Professor at University of Belgrade and Faculty of Agriculture (Serbia) and Guest Professor at University of Life Sciences in Lublin (Poland). He is an elected fellow of the American Meat Science Association and Institute of Food Technologist (IFT). He is also a certified Lead (external) Auditor for Quality management (ISO 9001) and Food Safety management (ISO 22000) systems and is presiding a ISO/Technical Committee 34/SC (Management systems for food safety) at a Institute for Standardization of Serbia.

Early life and education
He was born in Belgrade (1974), capital city of the Republic of Serbia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade with a bachelor's degree in 2000, magister’s degree in 2007 and a PhD in Food Science in 2011. He spent a year (2009) at University of Ghent (Belgium) conducting experimental part of his PhD thesis as a Erasmus Mundus Basileus PhD scholarship fellow. He also received MASHAV fellowship in 2005 visiting The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) / Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences and a USDA Borlaug Fellowship continuing his academic mobility at Texas AM University (USA) / Animal Science Department. He advanced his knowledge about food safety systems at University of Wageningen (Holland) in 2007. His fluency in foreign languages is certified by University of Cambridge (English) and Institute Cervantes (Spanish).

Career
Following his graduation, Igor Tomašević spent 2 years working as food technologist ate the largest Serbian meat producing facility “Carnex” in Vrbas. He was hired as an assistant at the University of Belgrade in 2003. He was promoted to assistant professor in 2012, associate professor in 2017 and full professor in 2021. During his career he also worked as a Guest Professor at University of East Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Following his PhD, he had spent a number of short scientific missions at IRTA Institute of Food Technology (Spain) and University of Valencia (Spain). In 2022/2023 he spent a year as an Research Associate at German Institute of Food Technology in Quakenbrück (Germany).

Research and publications
Prof Tomašević researches novel food technologies and how bio-active ingredients and processing manipulate the quality and safety of foods. He paid special attention to sensory analysis of food and have successfully implemented a computer vision system for this purpose. His work significantly contributed to the improved sustainability and life cycle assessments of food production. He is an avid advocate of the societal role of livestock and importance of meat in human diet. He has published numerous (200+) peer-reviewed scientific articles and detailed overviews of his main research projects and publications can be seen on his ORCID, SCOPUS and ResearchGate pages.

Invited lectures
He was an invited speaker at International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) in Copenhagen (Denmark 2009), Melbourne (Australia 2018), Potsdam (Germany 2019) and Padova (Italy 2023). In 2019 he was also a guest speaker at the Flemish Ministry of Environment in Brussels (Belgium) talking about Eastern European consumer’s attitudes and beliefs on animal welfare and the perspective on ending piglet castration, and at the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia regarding necessities for food safety knowledge and skills at EU level. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Göttingen (Germany 2019), “V.M.Gorbatov” Federal Research Center of Food Systems (Russia 2018,2020 ,2022) and the South China University of Technology (China 2023).

Mentoring and Editorial activities
He (co)supervised ten PhD thesis at University of Belgrade (Serbia) and one at University of Hohenheim (Germany). He also served as the member of PhD thesis examination committee at University of Vigo (Spain), University of Milano (Italy), University of Hohenheim (Germany) and University of Novi Sad (Serbia). Tomašević also serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Theory and Practice of Meat Processing and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. He is also an Editorial board member of numerous scientific journals including Meat Science, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation , Foods , Current Research in Food Science and Meat Technology.

Awards and honors

 * Best poster presentation award at the 49th International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (2003) in Campinas, Brazil.


 * “Gold Medal for The Best in Agribusiness” for the Magister Thesis work awarded at the 74th International Agricultural Fair (2007).


 * Publons' global Peer Review Awards Winner (2017) Top Reviewer for University of Belgrade.


 * Publons' global Peer Review Awards Winner (2018) Top Reviewer in Agricultural Sciences.


 * Publons' global Peer Review Awards Winner (2019) Top 1% Reviewers in Cross-Field.


 * Publons' global Peer Review Awards Winner (2019) Top 1% Reviewers in Agricultural Sciences.


 * Top 2% Scientist Worldwide Ranking by Stanford University (2021).


 * Top 2% Scientist Worldwide Ranking by Stanford University (2022).


 * University of Belgrade Acknowledgement for extraordinary scientific achievements (2023).

Personal life
He is married to Ivana Tomašević and they have two sons.