Aleksej Tarasjev, PhD is an evolutionary biologist from the Department of Evolutionary Biology in Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he works in the fields of ecological genetics and evolutionary ecology of plants. He is also interested in conceptual issues of evolutionary biology.
Since 2004, he has been the Chair of the Serbian Expert Council for Biosafety (until 2009 – National Biosafety Council). Aleksej Tarasjev has worked and is currently working for various UN agencies on biosafety and capacity building issues.