Slavica Jonic

Slavica Jonic is a Research Director at CNRS, affiliated with Sorbonne University at the Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics, and Cosmochemistry (IMPMC-UMR 7590) in Paris, France. She obtained her PhD in Image Processing from EPFL (Switzerland) in 2003 and a Research Director Habilitation from UPMC (France) in 2015. She leads the 'Image analysis for biomolecular structural and dynamics studies' subgroup under the BiBiP team and co-leads the IMPMC transversal axis on 'Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data.'

Her research focuses on developing algorithms that integrate image analysis, molecular mechanics simulation, and artificial intelligence to explore conformational dynamics of biomolecules via in vitro and in situ cryo-EM and cryo-ET. Key software contributions include ContinuousFlex, HEMNMA, StructMap, MDTOMO, and MDSPACE, which are used to study complexes like nucleosomes, ribosomes, SARS-CoV-2 spike, and ATPase p97.

Her work is supported by ANR, CNRS, Sorbonne University, and GENCI. She mentors PhD students and Master interns and serves on editorial boards for journals like BMC Methods and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. She also organizes workshops on cryo-EM and AI.