Ljiljana S. Brbaklić was born in Sombor, Republic of Serbia in 1982. She has got her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade in 2015. She is a Research Associate from Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Novi Sad (IFVCNS) with 14 years of work experience in classical and molecular breeding on small grains. From the 2018 she is working as a barley, oat and rye breeder. She is/was a participant in 9 international (FP7-ADAPTAWHEAT, IPA, COST, SEE-ERA-NET and two ACCESS projects, H2020, and FAO) and 5 national projects. She was attended international and national conferences, workshops, and courses. She was awarded by short-term research grant (2020) funded by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). She has published 14 scientific papers from the SCI list journals and 5-year h-index is 3.