Svetlana Soković Bajić is an Assistant Research Professor at the Group for Probiotics and Microbiota-Host Interaction, Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology (LMM). She has been employed at the Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE), University of Belgrade since 2014, where she obtained the Assistant Research Professor position in 2020. She completed her Ph.D. studies in Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering at the University of Belgrade. She is a member of the Serbian Society of Microbiology, the Serbian Society for Molecular Biology, and the Serbian Society for Extracellular Vesicles. Her research interests are molecular microbiology, molecular genetics of lactic acid bacteria, biotechnology, microbiome, host-microbiome interaction, and immunology.