Aleksandra Lazić holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Belgrade (Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia), where she also completed her BA and MA. Her work has consistently focused on advancing open, collaborative, and globally inclusive research practices.
She co-founded and managed REPOPSI (2020–2025), the first open repository for psychological instruments in Serbian, growing it into a FAIR-aligned infrastructure of 250+ instruments and leading a €50K Horizon 2020 project to scale it further. She has written and spoken about open science widely, including in Nature.
Since 2023, Aleksandra has served on the Executive Committee of ABRIR, working to improve representation of Majority World researchers in open and big-team science. She also contributed to FORRT (Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training) and OSCS (Open Science Community Serbia).
Over six years as a Research Assistant at the LIRA Lab, University of Belgrade, she conducted quantitative research in social psychology and public health communication, integrating open science practices at every stage of her work.
In 2024, she received the inaugural Sarah Jones Award for Exceptional Contribution to Fostering Collaboration in Open Science from the Research Data Alliance.
In her spare time, she enjoys doing data viz in R, drawing, and running.