Dr Janoš Berenji was born in 1954 in Torda (municipality of Žitište). He graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Novi Sad in 1979 with a grade point average of 9.69. In 1985, he received his MSc degree in plant genetics and breeding from the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, and five years later, in 1990, he successfully defended his PhD thesis at the same faculty. Dr Berenji has been employed at the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad since 1979 working on the genetics, breeding and seed production of sorghums, millets, hemp, tobacco and pumpkins. He is Head of the Institute’s Department of Hops, Sorghums and Medicinal Plants as of 1990 and was elected Scientific Advisor in 2002. During 1985, Dr Berenji made a six-month visit to the U.S. for the purpose of specialization at several universities, while in 1987 he attended the international course on applied plant breeding at Wageningen in the Netherlands. In 2001, he made a four-month study trip to the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Since 1987, Dr Berenji has been President of the sorghum group of the EUCARPIA Maize and Sorghum Section. He takes part in the teaching activities of the faculties of agriculture in Novi Sad, Zemun and Budapest. Dr Berenji has been member of the Presiding Council of the Serbian Genetic Society since 2004. He was Vice-President of the Section on Breeding of Organisms between 1994 and 2006 and was elected the Section’s President in 2006.
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