He received his BS and MsC degrees at University of Novi Sad (Yugoslavia), PhD in Developmental Biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) in 1995 and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) until 1998. He became Assistant Professor at Western University in 1998. Dr. Grbic led the first chelicerate genome sequencing project funded by the USA department of Energy and is a leader of the Genomics in Agricultural Pest Management (GAP-M) consortium, funded by Genome Canada and Ontario Research Fund focused on agricultural pest genomics. Dr. Grbic was awarded the Marie Curie visiting professor fellowship, Premier’s Research Excellence Award in 2000 (Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology Ontario Canada) and is currently Section Editor, Journal Arthropod Structure and Development.