Professor Dr Marina Stefova

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Office 312 Direct phone +389 2 3249934 Email marinaiv@pmf.ukim.mk

Biography

Education:

- 1988 - 1993 – Bachelor of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (FNSM), Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje

- 1997 – Master of Science in Chemistry (MSc thesis: ”Determination of vitamin B12 in multivitamin preparations using atomic absorption spectrometry and high-performance liquid chromatography”), FNSM, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje 

- 2001 – PhD in chemistry  (PhD thesis: ”Development of HPLC methods for identification and quantification of flavonoids in plant materials and plant products”), FNSM, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje

 Employment:

- 1993 – 2000 – young researcher at the Inst. chemistry, FNSM, Ss Cyril and Methodius University

- 2003 – assistant professor at the Inst. chemistry, FNSM, Ss Cyril and Methodius University

- 2007 – associate professor at the Inst. chemistry, FNSM, Ss Cyril and Methodius University

- 2012 – full professor at the Inst. chemistry, FNSM, Ss Cyril and Methodius University

Teaching:

- Instrumental analytical methods, Chromatographic methods, Forensic chemistry

- Methodology of scientific research, Trace analysis

- Methodics in chemistry

Books

1.  Ivanova V, Stefova M. Fruits&Cereal Bioactives, Sources, Chemistry, and Applications. Chapter 24: Analytical methodology for characterization of grape and wine phenolic bioactives. Taylor & Francis, 2011.

2.  Stefova M., Ivanova V. 2010. Fruits&Cereal Bioactives, Sources, Chemistry, and Applications. Chapter 11: Phenolic bioactives in grapes and wines. Taylor & Francis, 2011.

Articles and Conferences

Scientific papers published in the last 5 years (in peer-reviewed journals):

  1. V. Ivanova, M. Stefova, B. Vojnoski, T. Stafilov, I. Bíró, A. Bufa, A. Felinger, F. Kilár, VOLATILE COMPOSITION OF MACEDO­NI­AN AND HUNGARIAN WINES ASSESSED BY GC/MS, Food and Bioprocess Technology 6(6), 1609-1617 (2013).
  2. I. Cvetkovikj, G. Stefkov, J. Acevska, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Karapandzova, M. Stefova, A. Dimitrovska, S. Kulevanova, POLYPHENOLIC CHARACTERIZATION AND CHROMATO­GRA­PHIC METHODS FOR FAST ASSESSMENT OF CULINARY Salvia SPECIES FROM SOUTH EAST EUROPE, Journal of Chromatography A, 1282, 38– 45 (2013).
  3. J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, ASSAY OF URINARY EXCRETION OF POLYPHENOLS AFTER INGESTION OF A CUP OF MOUNTAIN TEA (Sideritis scardica) MEASURED BY HPLC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 61, 10488-10497 (2013).
  4. V. Ivanova-Petropulos, H. Wiltsche, T. Stafilov, M. Stefova, H. Motter, E. Lankmayr, MULTI-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF MACEDONIAN WINES BY INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA–MASS SPECTROMETRY (ICP–MS) AND INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA–OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY (ICP–OES) FOR THEIR CLASSIFICATION, Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 32, 265–281 (2013).
  5. R. Gulaboski, I. Bogeski, V. Mirceski, S. Saul, B. Pasieka, H.H. Haeri, M. Stefova, J. Petreska Stanoeva, S. Mitrev, M. Hoth, R. Kappl, HYDROXYLATED DERIVATIVES OF DIMETHOXY-1,4-BENZOQUINONE AS REDOX SWITCHABLE EARTH-ALKALINE METAL LIGANDS AND RADICAL SCAVENGERS, Scientific Reports  3:1865 (2013), DOI: 10.1038/srep018651.
  6. V. Ivanova Petropulos, Á. Dörnyei, M. Stefova, T. Stafilov, B. Vojnoski, L. Márk, I. Hermosín-Gutiérrez, F. Kilár, APPLICATION OF A NOVEL SMALL-SCALE SAMPLE CLEANUP PROCEDURE PRIOR TO MALDI-TOF-MS FOR RAPID PIGMENTS FINGERPRINTING OF RED WINES, Food Analytical Methods 7, 820-827 (2014).
  7. G. Stefkov, B. Miova, S. Dinevska-Kjovkarovska, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, G. Petrusevska, S. Kulevanova, CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF Centaurium erythrea L. AND ITS EFFECTS ON CARBOHYDRATE AND LIPID METABOLISM IN EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 152, 71-77 (2014), doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.11.047.
  8. I. Mitreski, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, G. Stefkov, S. Kulevanova, POLYPHENOLS IN REPRESENTATIVE Teucrium SPECIES IN THE FLORA OF R. MACEDONIA: LC/DAD/ESI-MS(n) PROFILE AND CONTENT. Natural Product Communications 9, 175 – 180 (2014).
  9. V. Ivanova Petropulos, E. Bogeva, T. Stafilov, M. Stefova, B. Siegmund, N. Pabi, E. Lankmayr, STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF MACERATION TIME AND OENOLOGICAL PRACTICES ON THE AROMA PROFILE OF VRANEC WINES, Food Chemistry 165, 506-514 (2014).
  10. Gj. Stefkov, S. Hristovski, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, L. Melovski, S. Kulevanova, RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF BILBERRIES (Vaccinium myrtillus AND Vaccinium uliginosum) ON OSOGOVO MTN., R. MACEDONIA, Industrial Crops and Products 61, 145–150 (2014).
  11. A. Ibraliu, A. Trendafilova, B. D. Anđelković, B. Qazimi, D. M. Gođevac, D. Shengjergji, E. Bebeci, Gj. Stefkov, G. Zdunic, Ina I. Aneva, I. Pasho, J. Petreska Stanoeva, K. I. Alipieva, K. Savikin, Lj. N. Evstatieva, N. Menkovic, M. Stefova, M Popova, M. B. Jadranin, M. N. Todorova, P. Denev, S. Kulevanova, V. S. Bankova, V. Gurazi, V. Papajani-Toska, COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BALKAN Sideritis SPECIES FROM ALBANIA, BULGARIA AND MACEDONIA, European Journal of Medicinal Plants, 2015, 5, 328-340.
  12. O. Tusevski, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, S. Gadzovska Simic, AGROBACTERIUM ENHANCES XANTHONE PRODUCTION IN Hypericum perforatum CELL SUSPENSIONS, Plant Growth Regulation, 2015, 76, 199–210.
  13. M. Karapandzova, Gj. Stefkov, I. Cvetkovikj, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, S. Kulevanova, FLAVONOIDS AND OTHER PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN NEEDLES OF Pinus peuce AND OTHER PINE SPECIES FROM THE MACEDONIAN FLORA, Natural Product Communications, 2015, 10, 987–990.
  14. J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, Gj. Stefkov, S. Kulevanova, K. Alipieva, V. Bankova, I. Aneva, Lj. N. Evstatieva, CHEMOTAXONOMIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE Sideritis SPECIES DILEMMA ON THE BALKANS, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 2015, 61, 477–487.
  15. V. Ivanova-Petropulos, I. Hermosín-Gutiérrez, B. Boros, M. Stefova, T. Stafilov, B. Vojnoski, T. Dörnyei, F. Kilár, PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF MACEDONIAN RED WINES, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 2015, 41, 1-14.
  16. M. Najdoska-Bogdanov, J.B. Bogdanov, M. Stefova, SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF ESSENTIAL OIL COMPONENTS AND FATTY ACIDS IN FENNEL USING GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH A POLAR CAPILLARY COLUMN, Natural Product Communications 2015, 10(9), 1619-1626.
  17. M. Najdoska-Bogdanov, J.B. Bogdanov, M. Stefova, CHANGES IN VOLATILE COMPOUNDS DURING AGING OF SWEET FENNEL FRUITS-COMPARISON OF HYDRODISTILLATION AND STATIC HEADSPACE SAMPLING METHODS, Natural Product Communications 2016, 11(3), 423-429.
  18. K. Tašev, V. Ivanova-Petropulos, M. Stefova, OPTIMIZATION AND VALIDATION OF A DERIVATIZATION METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF BIOGENIC AMINES IN WINES USING RP-HPLC-DAD, Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 2016, 35(1), 19-28.
  19. A. Petkovska, V. Gјamovski, M. Stefova, COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT EXTRACTION SOLVENTS FOR ASSAY OF THE POLYPHENOL CONTENT IN THE PEEL AND PULP OF APPLE CULTIVARS FROM MACEDONIA, Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 2016, 35(1), 29-38.
  20. R. Gulaboski, I. Bogeski. P. Kokoskarova, H.H. Haeri, S. Mitrev, M. Stefova, J. Petreska Stanoeva, V. Markovski, V. Mirčeski, M. Hoth, R. Kappl, NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CHEMISTRY OF COENZYME Q-0: A VOLTAMMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY, Bioelectrochemistry 2016, 111, 100-108.
  21. O. Tusevski, J.P. Stanoeva, E. Markoska, (...), M. Stefova, S. Gadzovska Simic, CALLUS CULTURES OF Hypericum perforatum L. A NOVEL AND EFFICIENT SOURCE FOR XANTHONE PRODUCTION, Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 2016, 125, 309–319.
  22. O. Tusevski, B. Vinterhalter, D. Krstić-Milošević, M. Soković, A. Ćirić, D. Vinterhalter, S. Zdravković Korać, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, S. Gadzovska Simic, PRODUCTION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS, ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITIES IN HAIRY ROOT AND SHOOT CULTURES OF Hypericum perforatum L., Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 2017, 128(3), 589–605.
  23. A. Petkovska, V Gjamovski, J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, CHARACTERIZATION OF THE POLYPHENOLIC PROFILES OF PEEL, FLESH AND LEAVES OF Malus domestica CULTIVARS USING UHPLC-DAD-HESI-MSn, Natural product communications 2017, 12(1), 35-42. 
  24. J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, K. Bačeva Andonovska, T. Stafilov, LC/DAD/MSn AND ICP-AES ASSAY AND CORRELA­TIONS BETWEEN PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND TOXIC METALS IN ENDEMIC Thymus alsarensis Ronniger FROM THE THALLIUM ENRICHED ALLCHAR LOCALITY, Natural Product Communications 2017, 12(2), 167-170.
  25. M. Stefova, A. Petkovska, S. Ugarkovic, J. Petreska Stanoeva, STRATEGY FOR OPTIMIZED USE OF LC-MSn FOR DETERMINATION OF THE POLYPHENOLIC PROFILES OF APPLE PEEL, FLESH AND LEAVES, Arabian Journal of Chemistry 2017 (available online 26 December 2016).
  26. J. Petreska Stanoeva, M. Stefova, K. Bačeva Andonovska, T. Stafilov, PHENOLICS AND MINERAL CONTENT IN BILBERRY AND BOG BILBERRY FROM MACEDONIA, International Journal of Food Properties 20, S863-S883, (2017). 

 

Other activities

- author/co-author of 89 scientific articles (55 in peer  reviewed journals with impact factor).

- author/co-author of 104 presentations at various scientific conferences and invited lecture at the XXI Congress of chemists and technologists of Macedonia with international participation (2010)

- short stays at the Institute of organic chemistry with Center of phytochemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Department of Food Science and Technology, National Centre for Scientific Research (Murcia, Spain); Joint research unit “Science for Oenology”, National Institute for Agricultural Research-INRA (Montpellier, France); Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Shanghai, China)

- supervisor of five defended PhD theses and 14 defended MSc theses, 58 diploma works of students of chemistry

- 2013 - 2020 – Head of the Institute of chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

- 2020 - present - Head of the Laboratory for chromatographic analysis

- 2006-2014 membеr of the Editorial board and from 2014 – deputy editor of Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering published by the Society of chemists and technologists of Macedonia (from 2009 with ISI impact factor: http://www.mjcce.org.mk/) and Head of the Section for Chemical education within the Society of chemists and technologists of Macedonia 

Проекти

  • Chemotaxonomic, phytochemical and pharmacognostic investigation of the species: TEUCRIUM, CALAMINTHA, ACINOS, SATUREJA, CLINOPODIUM and MICROMERIA (LAMIACEAE) in the flora of Republic of Macedonia, national project (1999-2001), participant.
  • Chemical characterization of wild-growing medicinal and aromatic plants from Lamiaceae family and evaluation of the possibilities for their cultivation, Macedonian-Bulgarian bilateral research project (2005-2007), coordinator.
  • Development of analytical methods for determination of traces of metals and drugs in biological samples, national project (2006-2009), participant
  • Teaching and learning bioanalysis, CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies) CII-HU-0010-01-0607, 2006-2007, participant.
  • MK CHEMREFORM: Reforms and Upgrade Chemistry Undergraduate Studies in Macedonia (TEMPUS JEP  41144 2006), participant
  • CHROMLAB-ANTIOXIDANT: Reinforcement of the WBC research capacities for food quality characterization, (FP7), 2008-2011, http://chromlab.pmf.ukim.edu.mk, coordinator
  • SWOT-CHEMISTRY-FOOD: Evaluation of the research capacity in chemistry and development of strategy for further growth with ambition in food science, (FP7), 2008-2011, http://www.chemistryfood.pmf.ukim.edu.mk, coordinator
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