Vice-Rectors Vice-Rector for Finance, Investments and Development

Prof. Dr. Lazo Pendovski was born in 1975 in Skopje.

He enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje in the 1994/95 academic year and graduated in 2001.

Since 2005, he has been employed as a Junior Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, where he has advanced successively through all academic ranks, from teaching and research associate positions to the highest academic rank of Full Professor, to which he was appointed in 2021, in the field of Veterinary Medicine.

He completed his postgraduate master’s studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in 2007, obtaining the academic degree of Master of Medical Sciences.

He completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje at UKIM in 2011, obtaining the academic degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Sciences.

From 2013 to 2017, he was elected twice to serve as Vice-Dean for Teaching at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje.

In 2017, he was appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje by the Rector of UKIM, and in June 2017, he was elected Dean by the Faculty’s Teaching and Scientific Council. In 2021, he was re-elected for a second term as Dean and served in this capacity until 2023, when he was elected Vice-Rector.

From 2023 to 2026, he served as Vice-Rector for Finance, Investment and Development at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM).

In addition to his teaching activities at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje at the undergraduate level, he has also been engaged, pursuant to decisions of the Faculty’s Teaching and Scientific Council, in teaching the first cycle of studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food at UKIM, where he teaches the compulsory course Animal Anatomy within the Animal Production study program. He is also an accredited doctoral supervisor for the doctoral programs in Veterinary Medicine and Food Safety at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje.

In 2004, he organized the International Seminar on Plastination, held in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of Macedonia and the Ministry of Education of Austria. At the 12th International Conference on Plastination, held in Spain in 2004, he received the first prize for the best scientific paper. At the 8th International Conference on Plastination, held in 2005, he was elected Secretary-General of the conference. In 2007, he completed the 7th Postgraduate Course in Tissue Plastination using polyester P40 in Murcia, Spain.

Prof. Dr. Pendovski has participated in numerous international academic and professional events and has also been invited as a guest lecturer. He has received acknowledgements for his significant contributions to the scientific committees of numerous professional and scientific events with international participation, including conferences, congresses, symposia, and similar gatherings.

He has received several grants and fellowships for education and research, including a COST grant for a scientific visit to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb; a one-month CEEPUS fellowship at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria; a fellowship from the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia for a research stay at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb; and a ten-month research fellowship at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Ljubljana, Slovenia, under the Erasmus Mundus programme.

He has led and actively participated in the implementation of more than 25 research projects funded through various programs, including Tempus Joint European Projects (JEP), COST, SEE-ERA-NETs, the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, FP7 and FP6, Erasmus+, FAO, and others, in cooperation with foreign universities and international institutions.

Prof. Dr. Lazo Pendovski has published more than 125 scientific and professional papers to date in journals with international editorial boards, journals indexed with an impact factor, and conference abstracts published in North Macedonia and abroad. He is also the author or co-author of seven books and teaching materials in the fields of animal morphology, embryotechnology, and animal welfare. He has served as editor of ten books of abstracts from annual conferences and two monographs published by the Faculty.

Since 2013, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Macedonian Veterinary Review, which is indexed in leading international scientific databases. Under his leadership, the journal received its first Journal Impact Factor (JIF 0.4) for 2022, as reported by Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science.

Since 2023, he has been appointed Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Macedonian Veterinary Review by the Teaching and Scientific Council of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje.

He is also a member of the international editorial boards of the scientific journals Veterinary Journal of Ankara University, Meat Technology, Veterinary Journal of the Republic of Srpska, and Archives of Veterinary Medicine.

Dr. Lazo Pendovski has been actively involved in the work of numerous committees and working bodies. His roles have included serving as a member of the Sectoral Commission for Agriculture and Fisheries within the National Qualifications Framework Board at the Ministry of Education and Science; a member of a working body responsible for reviewing projects submitted to the UKIM Commission for Culture and Sports; a member of the Board for the Selection of UKIM Scientists Demonstrating Outstanding Achievements in Research; a member of the Expert Council for Doctoral Studies at UKIM; and a member of the working group for Chapter 12, “Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Policy,” in the negotiations for the accession of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union. He also served as Chair of the Board for Trust and Public Relations from 2013 to 2017 and as a member of the Programme Committee for the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme at the Ministry of Education and Science in 2021, with responsibility for the “Research Infrastructures and Capacities” programme, among other roles.

In 2021, Prof. Dr. Lazo Pendovski received a special recognition as Dean, named “Best in Agribusiness,” for his contribution to the development of educational and research capacities and laboratories accredited in accordance with the ISO 17025 standard. The recognition was presented at the traditional 88th International Agricultural Fair held in the Republic of Serbia, co-organized with the partner country, the Czech Republic, and attended by numerous businesses, food producers, research centers, agencies, and higher education institutions from the fields of agriculture and veterinary medicine.

Since 2023, he has been an Honorary Member of the Academy of Veterinary Medicine (AVM) within the Serbian Veterinary Society in the Republic of Serbia.

Prof. Dr. Lazo Pendovski’s areas of scientific research and professional interest include the functional morphology of animals, with a particular focus on the expression of genes encoding factors that influence muscle growth in animals.