Dr. Vladimir P. Beškoski, PhD in Biochemistry, completed his PhD at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Chemistry (UBFC) in 2011. His thesis focused on the activities of microorganisms in soil contaminated by crude oil and their application in bioremediation across laboratory, pilot, and industrial scales.
As an Invited Foreign Researcher supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), he spent over two years within the last decade at Kobe University, Japan, specializing in the biodegradation of persistent organic pollutants, particularly per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Since 2012, he has held academic positions at UBFC, starting as an assistant professor, progressing to associate professor, and being elected as a full professor in 2022.
He currently serves as the President of the Environmental Chemistry Division of the Serbian Chemical Society and as the National Representative in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Division VI: Chemistry and the Environment. He has coordinated and served as Principal Investigator on more than ten major international and national initiatives, funded by Horizon Europe (European Commission), Science Fundof Serbia, Innovation Fundof Serbia, Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy S.p.A. and multiple projects funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
His scholarly output includes authoring over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 3 book chapters, with more than 1600 citations and an h-index of 23 according to the Scopus database. He was associate editor of the Journal of Serbian Chemical Society and is associate editor in the Environmental Monitoring & Contaminants Research journal.
Dr. Beškoski research spans several facets of environmental biotechnology and microbial ecology, including the application of green chemistry principles using microbial processes, microbial activities and their applications in biogeotechnology, bioremediation, and agriculture. He also focuses on microbial consortium dynamics, changes in microbial diversity during bioremediation, the genetic and biochemical basis of bacterial degradation of oil hydrocarbons and persistent organic pollutants, and the application of products of microbial metabolism, such as exopolysaccharides and rhamnolipids.
He served as a mentor for 100 BSc, more than 40 MSc thesis and 8 PhD dissertations, finished under his supervision.