Mirjana Rašević graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Belgrade, earned her master’s degree at the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies of the University of Belgrade, and defended her doctoral dissertation at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her scientific interests include fertility, reproductive health and political solutions to demographic challenges.

Rašević has been a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) since 2024 and President of the SASA Board for the Study of Population. She conducted research for more than 30 years at the Center for Demographic Research of the Institute of Social Sciences. She was the Director of the Institute of Social Sciences from 2002 to 2015. From 2002 to 2023, she was a professor in the Department of Demography at the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade. She also taught in the master’s programs at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, as well as in the Migration Studies program at the University of Belgrade.

Mirjana Rašević is the author or co-author of 13 books, including Towards an Understanding of the Childbirth Crisis in Serbia (Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, 2025), numerous chapters in monographs and thematic volumes, and a large number of articles published in national journals and in journals indexed in major international databases. She has participated in many national, European, and word conferences.

She was editor of Stanovništvo (Population), one of the oldest demographic journals in Europe, from 1996 to 2010.

She has managed more than 20 research projects, including several of a strategic importance. She was also co-coordinator of two European projects: Managing Migration and its Effects in South-East Europe—SEEMIG (2012–2014) and Improving Institutional Capacities and Fostering Cooperation to Tackle the Impacts of Transnational Youth Migration—YOUMIG (2017–2019). In 2024–2025, she is leading the project Towards the Improvement of Family Planning of Young Roma Women in Serbia, funded by the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health.