Biography

She was born in 1989 in Čačak, where she finished elementary school and high school. Undergraduate and master studies in Spatial Planning at University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography attended in the period from 2008 till 2013, when she successfully defended master’s thesis entitled “Čačak as a regional center within the West Morava development axis”. The same year enrolled in PhD studies in Geoscience. Became associate at the Department of Spatial Planning in 2014. In 2015 was elected to the position of teaching assistant at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography. From 2014 till 2019, participated in the scientific project “The role and implementation of the national spatial plan and regional development documents in renewal of strategic research, thinking and governance in Serbia” at the Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS). In IAUS, as a member of the team, worked on several planning documents. Participated in several scientific conferences and summer schools in the country and abroad, and participated in the organization of three international scientific conferences (DailyMeteo.org/2014, MedCLIVAR 2018 and CATference 2019).

Awards and honours

Scholar of Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia (2008), Republic Foundation for the Development of Scientific and Artistic Youth (2010), Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia (2012) and Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (2014).

The best student of Spatial Planning (2013).

Membership in foreign and domestic associations

• Serbian Geographical Society
• Serbian Spatial Planners Association
• Center of Russian Geographical Society in Serbia

1. Živanović, Z., Tošić, B., Nikolić, T., & Gatarić, D. (2019) Urban System in Serbia – The Factor in the Planning of Balanced Regional Development. Sustainability, 2019, Volume 11, Issue 15, 4168. doi:10.3390/su11154168
2. Nikolić, T. (2019) Urban development in Serbia: between “urban sprawl” and “urban shrinking”. 8th International Urban Geographies of Post-communist States Conference, book of abstracts (189). Belgrade: University of Belgrade – Faculty of Geography. ISBN 978-86-6283-081-4
3. Nikolić, T., & Mirić, N. (2018) Dnevne migracije ekonomski aktivnog stanovništva – indikator funkcionalnih veza i odnosa u mreži naselja Republike Srbije. Zbornik radova / Lokalna samouprava u planiranju i uređenju prostora i naselja (581-589). Beograd: APPS, Univerzitet u Beogradu – Geografski fakultet. ISBN 978-86-6283-061-6 (GF)
4. Jeftić, M., Tošić, D., & Nikolić, T. (2018) Resilient Functional Urban Regions: Spatial Planning in the Light of Climate Change. Climate Change Adaptation in Eastern Europe Managing Risks and Building Resilience to Climate Change (113-126). Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-03383-5
5. Nikolić, T., Petrić, J., & Bajić, T. (2017) Impact of population dynamics on spatial development of Belgrade urban region. Proceedings of the International Conference on Changing Cities III (861-871). Greece: Department of Planning & Regional Development, University of Thessaly. ISBN 978-618-5271-12-1
6. Tošić, B., Živanović, Z., & Nikolić, T. (2017) Function Equilibrium in the Medium and Large Urban Settlements of Serbia. Collection of Papers, Vol. LXV, No. 1 (73-93). Beograd: Univerzitet u Beogradu – Geografski fakultet. doi:10.5937/zrgfub1765073T
7. Bajić, T., Petrić, J., & Nikolić, T. (2016) Fuel poverty and perception on housing and environmental quality in Belgrade’s informal settlement Kaluđerica. Spatium, No. 35 (1-9). Beograd: Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Srbije. doi:10.2298/SPAT1635001B
8. Николић, T. (2015) Просторно-функционална организација у мрежи насеља западноморавске осовине развоја. 4. српски конгрес географа, поводом 150 година рођења Јована Цвијића – зборник радова, књига 2 (227-233). Београд: Универзитет у Београду – Географски факултет, Српско географско друштво. ISBN 978-86-6283-033-3
9. Petrić, Ј., & Nikolić, Т. (2014) Razvoj urbane matrice Beograda: kompaktnost, nekontrolisano širenje i fleksibilnost. Obnova strateškog prostornog mišljenja, istraživanja i upravljanja u Srbiji – knjiga 2, Posebna izdanja br. 74 (179-204). Beograd: Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Srbije. ISBN 978-86-80329-80-2
10. Nikolić, T. (2013) Spatial organization of the settlement network of the municipality of Čačak and tendencies of its development. Glasnik Srpskog geografskog drustva, Vol 93(2) (113-130). https://doi.org/10.2298/GSGD1302113N