STED 2024

PhD Božana Odžaković, moderator

Associate professor at the Faculty of Technology, University of Banja Luka, Food Technology and Industrial Biotechnology study program, Banja Luka, BiH

Božana Odžaković obtained her PhD degree in the field of Food Engineering at the Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad. She completed a one-year specialist distance learning course „Food Technology and Food Safety“ and did research at Portuguese Catholic University School of Biotechnology.

She is the author of the university book “Nutrition and nutritive quality of food” and fifty-eight scientific/professional papers published in reference journals and proceedings. She is the co-author of chapters in the books: Selected Topics on Food Science and Technology and Advances in Applications of Industrial Biomaterials. She has held lectures at Faculty of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Creta, Greece and Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal.

Merlinda Đešević

Health food manufacturer, Podgorica, Montenegro

Merlinda Đešević is engaged in research on how to prepare healthy meals for people with health problems, starting with diabetes, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, cancer, through reactions to gluten, milk and dairy products.

For years, she has been researching the ingredients of plant-based food and how to prepare meals from whole foods. She has practical experience in restaurants and hotels as well as in her own kitchen preparing healthy meals for her family.

She is the founder of the company “Monty Chveese” d.o.o. from Podgorica, which is engaged in the production of plant-based cheeses, bakery products without gluten, additives, yeast and artificial additives.

She believes that the production of a healthy program is necessary primarily for people who have health problems, as well as for people who, due to their personal beliefs, do not want to consume foods of animal origin.

Nemanja Milović

Fitness personality of the year, Novi Sad, Serbia

Professional sports coach and educator. As a conditioning coach, he worked with top athletes such as: Darko Miličić (NBA player), Dušan Domović Bulut (the best player in the world in 3×3 basketball), Bojan Veličković (the first Serbian MMA fighter in the UFC organization) and others. He also worked as a fitness coach of the senior Belarusian tennis team.

Nemanja is a certified nutritionist and TRX instructor.

Lecturer on courses for personal and operational trainers level III organized by the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education and the Association for Recreation and Fitness of Vojvodina.

Dr Bojan Stojnić

A common sense nutritionist, Zagreb, Croatia

Born in Rijeka in 1989, he received his master’s degree at the Faculty of Food and Biotechnology of the University of Zagreb. He received his doctorate in the field of Nutrigenomics and Personalized Nutrition at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain.

Served as president of the Croatian Association of Nutritionists, the first association of nutritionists in Croatia, with which he shares the goals of promoting nutritionism and protecting the nutritionist profession. President of the organizing committee of the International Congress of Nutritionists in 2015.

Founder and owner of the largest Croatian nutrition counseling center nutricionizam.hr. Through expert articles, free nutrition analysis, individualized services and education, he tries to demystify nutrition, simplify nutritional advice and direct the focus to truly important nutritional factors.