Aleksandra Stupar graduated at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, where she also obtained MSci and PhD degree in architecture and urbanism. She has participated in numerous national and international research projects, workshops and conferences and published articles and chapters in national and international journals and books focusing on problems of cities and their identity. Her research interests are technological, political and cultural aspects of urban environment, urban morphology and transformations.

Aleksandra is currently engaged in two projects financed by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia – “Studying climate change and its influence on the environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation” and “Spatial, ecological, energy and social aspects of the development of settlements and climate changes – interrelations’.  In 2012 she was the guest editor of the thematic issue of the Serbian Architectural Journal (‘City vs. Innovation’). Since 2013 she has been responsible for the content and structure of the track ‘City and Society’

(with Ivan Kucina), representing a part of lecture series ‘Architecture-Utopia-Realism’, conducted at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture .

Aleksandra is the winner of Gerd Albers Award 2008, given by ISOCARP for the best published article on urbanism.