Jelena Radovanović was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1973. She received the B.Sc. degree (five years program) in 1997, the M.Sc. degree (two years program) in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in 2001, all in electrical engineering, from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia, where she is currently employed as a Full Professor. She has coauthored 87 articles in refereed international journals, more than 100 conference papers presented at international and national conferences, including several invited lectures, two monographs, one book chapter, and two university textbooks. Her research interests include optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, modelling of quantum cascade lasers and semiconductor-based metamaterials, as well as photonic heterostructures. She is one of the founders and currently a President-Elect of the Optical Society of Serbia.