Snežana Stanimirović ia a Serbian-American radio astronomer whose research focuses on the interstellar medium and intergalactic medium, including neutral hydrogen clouds[1] and the production of cosmic dust by supernovae.
[3] She is also the author of a comic strip aimed at encouraging children to become scientists, Galaxy Scouts: Space-Ventures with Stella and Riley.
[4][5] Stanimirović is originally from Kruševac, now in Serbia, moved to Surdulica as a child,[1] and was a high school student at the Jovan Skerlić Gymnasium in Vladičin Han.
[7] Her research involves the use of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a radio telescope array in Australia, and forms part of the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS) project using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in the southwestern US.
[4] Stanimirović was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016, "for pioneering radio studies of interstellar gas in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Cloud and improving understanding of transitions between phases and the role of interstellar turbulence".