Nina Nikolić (PhD in vegetation ecology, University Hohenhem, Germany) is Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, with expertize in ecological restoration of post-mining land and biological processes important for the remediation and environmental safety of metal mine tailings. Her peer-reviewed publications have been cited 740 times with an h index of 13 (Google Scholar). She is a member of Society for Ecological Restoration Еurope and The International Society for Silicon in Agriculture and Related Disciplines. In the REASONING project Nina will contribute with advanced multielemental analyses of different chemical fractions of tailing samples by ICP-OES, and complex multivariate statistical analyses of the project data.