Ivana Milić Žitnik is a research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and serves as the chair of the Group for dynamics of planetary and stellar systems. She obtained her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Belgrade in 2018, with a dissertation titled "Numerical analysis of the dynamics of resonant asteroids under the influence of the Yarkovsky effect." Her primary research expertise lies in the orbital dynamics of main-belt asteroids and the Yarkovsky effect, with broader scientific interests in celestial mechanics, planetary science and astrometry.