Marija Mitrović Dankulov is assistant research professor at the Scientific Computing Laboratory and deputy head of Innovation Centre at the Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade. She has extensive knowledge and experience in theoretical and computational physics. Her main research interest are statistical physics of complex systems, with the emphasis on physics of socio-economic systems, and theory of complex networks. She completed her PhD in statistical physics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade in 2012. After her PhD studies, during which she was employed at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute Jožef Stefan, Slovenia, she undertook postdoctoral work at Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Finland.