Dr. Natalija Atanasova-Pancevska is a highly motivated, dedicated, creative, organized, and hard-working Biochemistry & Physiology Graduated, with a Ph.D. in Microbial Biotechnology who is keen run lifelong research career in the field of Biological Sciences. 1998 - 2006- Postgraduate studies: Biochemistry - Physiology major; Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje, University "Sts. Cyril and Methodius". Field of study: Microbiology; Average mark 10.00 out of 10.00. 30.06.2006– M.Sci. thesis ”Anaerobic fungi from monogastric and ruminant herbivorous- morphological and enzyme characteristics”. 09.11.2011 – Ph.D. thesis “Biodegradation of hardly degradable cellulose substrates with enzyme complex from anaerobic rumen fungi”. Title of present position: Associate professor at the Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Dr. Natalija Atanasova-Pancevska research interests include Microbial biotechnology, Secondary metabolites from microorganisms, Antimicrobial activity of secondary metabolites, Probiotic microorganisms, Biology of anaerobic zoosporic fungi, Food Safety, Environmental biotechnology, Probiotics and prebiotics, Microbial ecology, Food biotechnology, Biology of aerobic fungi, Hidromicrobiology, Food microbiology, Biological treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater with the technology of bioaugmentation and MCE-IT technology, Bio oxidation of nitrogen compounds with filamentous fungi, Molecular microbiology.