Biography

Jelena B. Luković

 

Affiliation:             University of Belgrade Faculty of Geography

Address:                Studentski trg 3, 11000 Beograd, Serbia

E-mail:                   jelena.lukovic@gef.bg.ac.rs

Web -page:            https://gef.bg.ac.rs/en/nastavnik/ph-d-jelena-lukovic/

Orcid ID:         https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8967-3495

 

Date of birth:   July 14, 1979

Place of birth:  Belgrade, Serbia

EDUCATION

2014	PhD in Physical Geography University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia PhD thesis: Spatial pattern of recent climate change in Serbia
2008	MSc in Geography University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia MSc thesis: Temperature change in Serbia based on satellite derived data
2004	BSc in Geography University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia BSc thesis: The impact of climate on farming in Pešter Plateau, Serbia

PRIMARY APPOINTMENTS 

March 2024-present: Full Professor, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia.

June 2019-March 2024:Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia.

June 2014-May 2018: Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

June 2011-May 2013: Senior Teaching Assistant, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

April 2008-May 2011: Junior Teaching Assistant, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

March 2005-March 2008: Researcher, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, Serbia

Sept 2005-June 2010: Geography teacher, Britannica International school of Belgrade, Serbia.

FELLOWSHIPS AND VISITS

2024: Research visit: Department of Geography University of California Berkeley, Host: Prof. John Chiang

2015-2016: Fulbright Fellowship on Spatial Pattern of Recent Observed Regional Rainfall Trends in USA (1960-2010),

Host: Prof. John Chiang, Department of Geography University of California Berkeley.

2014: Research visit: Department of Geography University of California Berkeley, Host: Prof. John Chiang

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Climate variability and change; Hydroclimate seasonality changes; Understanding of mechanism of rainfall changes.

COURSES

2018-present: Methodology in Physical Geography (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, graduate course)

2016-present: Climate change (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, undergraduate course)

2016-present: Environmental Conservation (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, undergraduate course)

2014-present: Applied climatology (Department of Spatial Planning, undergraduate course)

2016-2021: Climatology (Department of Geography, undergraduate course)

2013: Hydrology (Department of Geography, undergraduate course)

As a professor Dr. Luković understands education as a never-ending process. During her career, she was deeply involved in teaching as well as in design and implementation of new courses at the Faculty of Geography University of Belgrade. She had a rare opportunity to attend and create some of the research related courses (GEOG N1 and GEOG 257) at the leading universities such as University of California Berkeley and got inspired by different schools of thought and various teaching methodologies and approaches.

GRANTS

2021-2022:      U.S. Federal Assistance Award – Individual: Use of IoT sensing in high schools for addressing the air pollution in Serbia (PI), US$: 24,475.

2011-2019:      CCIAM: Studying climate change and its influence on the environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation (National project-III 43007, Member), EUR 1.225,432.

2018-2022:      International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) grant: Climate of the SEE region – from global to local climate impacts (co-PI), EUR: 30,000.

2015-2016:      Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow (PI), US$: 20.845

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2021-present: Academic Chair on Climate at the Circle U Alliance on the behalf of University of Belgrade

2015-present: National Representative to the International Geographical Union-IGU

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2015-present: Member of Editorial board of Bulletin of the Serbian Geographical Society

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP ORGANIZING (selected)

2018: Chair of the MedCLIVAR 2018 conference “Bridging the Mediterranean Climates”, Belgrade, Serbia.

2015: Organizing Committee member of GEOMLA workshop and conference on Geostatistics and Machine

Learning Applications in Climate and Environmental Sciences, Belgrade.

INVITED TALKS (selected)

Feb 2024:   The impact of climate change on aviation, Course: CE257, UC Berkeley, USA.

Feb 2024:   The first climate model-Milankovitch Hypothesis, Course: CE257, UC Berkeley, USA.

Aug, 2022:  Climate change impacts, Circle U Summer School, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

May 2022:  Climate change and its effects on the Western Balkans, National Defence Academy, Vienna, Austria.

GRADUATED STUDENTS:

Dejan Doljak (Ph.D. 2020): currently Research Associate at Institute of Geography Serbian Academy of Art and Sciences.

Aleksandar Sekulić (Ph.D. 2021): currently Assistant Professor at University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering.

Slobodan Gnjato (Ph.D. 2022): currently Assistant Professor at University of Banja Luka Faculty of Geography.

Ljubica Duškov (Ph.D. 2024): currently Teaching assistant at University of Belgrade Faculty of Geography.

Current PhD students: Milica Marčeta, Nina Čegar.

RECENT CONFERENCES (selected)

• Luković J, Chiang J, Blagojević D, Sekulić (2024): A later onset of the rainy season in California, EGU 2024, 14-19 April 2024, Vienna, Austria. (oral talk)
• Luković J, Chiang J, Blagojević D, Sekulić (2023): Changing climate seasonality in California, Berkeley Atmospheric Center (BASC), 23-24 February, Berkeley, USA; (poster)
• Rakas J, Luković J (2022): Impact of Climate Change on Runway Length in the US, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Abstract ID1201634, 12-16 December, Chicago, USA; (poster)
• Jelena Luković, John Chiang (2021): Changes in the onset of the rainy season in California, AGU 2021, 9-13 December 2021, San Francisco, California; (oral talk)

METRICS (Google scholar)

Citations  865

h-Index   14

i10-Index  20

Awards and honours

Стипендиста Фонда Краљевског Дома Карађорђевића (2002), Фондације “Студеница”- Конгреса српског уједињења (2004), Града Београда (2004), Амбасаде Краљевине Норвешке у Београду (2004) и. Министарства науке и заштите животне средине ( 2005).

Membership in foreign and domestic associations

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Serbian Geographical Society (SGD)

Young Researchers of Serbia

PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (selected)

• Tarín-Carrasco P, Petrova D, Chica-Castells L, Lukovic J, Rodó X, Cvijanović I (2024): Assessment of Future Precipitation Changes in Mediterranean Climate Regions from CMIP6 ensemble (submitted to International Journal of Climatology under JOC-24-0648).
• Seager R, Wu Y, Cherchi A, Simpson I, Osborn T, Kushnir Y, Luković J, Nakamura HL (2024) Recent and near-term future changes in impacts-relevant seasonal hydroclimate in the world’s Mediterranean climate regions. International Journal of Climatology 44 (11). pp. 3792-3820. ISSN 0899-8418.
• Petrova D, Tarin-Carrasco P, Sekulić A, Luković J, Gali Reniu M, Rodo X, Cvijanović I (2024) Future precipitation changes in California: Comparison of CMIP5 and CMIP6 intermodel spread and its drivers. International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8449.
• Luković, J., Burić, D., Mihajlović, J. et al. (2024) Spatial and temporal variations of aridity-humidity indices in Montenegro. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-024-04893-y.
• Buric D,  Mihajlovic J,  Luković J, Jandžiković B; Dragojlović J, Lukovic J (2024) Deciphering the breaking points and spectral periodicities of mean air temperatures and precipitation sums in Montenegro, Environmental Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s12665-024-11666-3
• Luković J, Chiang J, Blagojević D, Sekulić (2021). A later onset of the rainy season in California. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090350. https://doi. org/10.1029/2020GL090350.
• Rakas J, Luković J (2021): DOT/FAA/TC-21/41 Future Climate Scenarios for Runway Length: Assessment of Wet/Dry Runway Surface Conditions with Observational Precipitation Data, December 2021, Final FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Report;
• Cvijanovic I, Luković, J, Begg JD. (2020) “One hundred years of Milanković cycles”. Nature Geosciences 13, 524–525 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0621-2

BOOKS

[1] Luković J and Burić D (2023) Climate Change, Faculty of Geography University of Belgrade, ISBN 978-86-6283-147-7, Belgrade, pp. 1-148.

[2] Luković J (2018) Geography Textbook for Primary School, Freska, Belgrade, pp. 1-155.

[3] Burić D, Ducić V, Luković J (2011) Climate change in Montenegro in second half of XX century, Montenegrin Academy of Art and Science, Podgorica, pp. 272

 

MEDIA OUTLETS ABOUT LUKOVIĆ’s RESEARCH (selected)

[1] Politika: https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/473491/srpski-naucnici-utvrdili-uzroke-kalifornijskih-pozara

[2] AGU News: https://news.agu.org/press-release/californias-rainy-season-starting-nearly-a-month-later-than-it-did-60-years-ago/

[3] The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/02/09/california-rainy-season-wildfires/

[4] Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-13/californias-rainy-season-is-starting-about-a-month-later-than-it-did-in-the-1960s-researchers-say

[5] ABC10 TV News: https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/california-rainy-season/103-7cbff7a6-9e82-4445-893f-b34fdc03cba1