Institute for Medical Research
Center of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism
Cara Dušana 6
11 000 Belgrade
phone: +381-11-4061747
mobile: +381-64-2474135
e-mail: vuk.stevanovic@imi.bg.ac.rs

Education

• Physical therapist high school diploma (2004)
• Professor of sport (bachelor degree), Faculty of sport and physical education (FSFV), Belgrade University (2008)
• Master of sport degree, Faculty of sport and physical education (FSFV), Belgrade University (2010), Master theme: „Physiological aspects of the basketball game“
• PhD in Sports Science and P.E., Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University in Novi Sad (2016), PhD thesis: “Acute effects of different types of warm-up and stretching on motor abilities and neuromuscular adaptation in basketball players”

Work experience

• Scientific Associate – Institute for Medical Research, Center of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism
• Research assistant – Institute for Medical Research, Center of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism
• Research assistant – Institute for Medical Research, Belgrade – Laboratory for neurophysiology
• Research at Center for Health, Exercise and Sport Sciences, Belgrade
• Coordinator of recruitment and selection in Volunteers department, Universiade Belgrade 2009
• General director of Basketball club Probasket since 2008.

Projects

• Employed on the project funded by Ministry of Education and Science (No. 41030): „Biological effects, nutritional intake and status of folate and polyunsaturated fatty acids: The improvement of nutrition in Serbia”. 2014 –
• Employed on the project funded by Ministry of Education and Science (No. 175012 Basic research): “Non-invasive modulation of cortical excitability and plasticity-Development of the methods of non-invasive neuromodulation of the central nervous system in testing physiological mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment”.2011 – 2014.

Reference

• Jelic MB, Stevanovic VB, Milanovic SD, Ljubisavljevic MR, Filipovic SR. (2013). Transcranial magnetic stimulation has no placebo effect on motor learning. Clin Neurophysiol, 124:1646–51 (M21).
• Konstantinovic LM, Jelic MB, Jeremic A., Stevanovic VB, Milanovic SD, Filipovic SR. (2013). Transcranial application of near-infrared low-level laser can modulate cortical excitability. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 9999:1-6 (M21).
•  Radjo I, Stevanovic V, Beretic I, Radanovic D, Galovic Z, Kajmovic H. (2013). The effects of different exercise workloads on the cardiovascular response between judokas and nonathletes. Technics, technologies, education, menagement, 8 (3), 1318-1324 (M23).
• Stevanović, VB, Jelić, MB. (2014). Ubrzavanje motoričkog učenja neinvazivnom neurostimulacijom – budućnost sportskog treninga? 12. godišnja međunarodna konferencija “Kondicijska priprema sportaša 2014”; Zagreb, Hrvatska (M33);
• Jelic MB, Stevanovic VB, Milanovic SD, Filipovic SR. (2013). Bilateral Sequential motor cortex stimulation improves skilled task learning. 5th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation; Leipzig, Germany. (Meeting Abstract) (M34);
• Filipovic SR, Jelic MB, StevanovicVB, Kacar A, Konstantinovic Lj, Milanovic SD. (2013). Modulation of motor cortex excitability and skilled task learning. 5th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation; Leipzig, Germany. (Meeting Abstract) (M34);
• Filipovic SR, Jelic MB, Jeremic A, StevanovicVB, Milanovic SD, Konstantinovic Lj. (2013). Transcranial Laser Stimulation – A New Method for Non-Invasive Modulation of Cortical Excitability. 5th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation; Leipzig, Germany. (Meeting Abstract) (M34);
• Filipovic SR, StevanovicVB, Avramovic I, Jelic MB, Avramovic I, Jeremic A, Kacar A, Milanovic SD, Konstantinovic Lj, Vuksanovic J. (2013). Improvement of language functions in a chronic non-fluent post-stroke aphasic patient following sequential bilateral non-invasive neuromodulation by theta burst magnetic stimulation. 5th International Conference on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation; Leipzig, Germany. (Meeting Abstract) (M34);
• Jelic M, Stevanovic V, Milanovic S, Filipovic SR. (2012). Speed of Skilled Task Learning and Changes in Motor Cortex Excitability – Effects of Transcranial magnetic Stimulation Protocols. Motor Control Summer School – IX; Tihany, Hungary. (Meeting Abstract) (M34);
• Stevanović V. (2013). Relationship between anthropometric characteristics and motor abilities of young judoists. Research in Kinesiology, 1, 76-82 (M52).