Darko Jovanović was born in 1996 in Innsbruck.

He enrolled in basic academic studies in 2015 at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Belgrade in the Phytomedicine module and graduated in 2020 by defending thesis "Critical time of weed control in the soybean crop" in the same year.

During his five-year studies, he spent nine months at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he had two projects regarding critical timing of weed control in soybean and corn crops. In November 2020, he is enrolling in master's studies. In October 2022, he successfully completed his Master's academic studies, defending his master's thesis entitled "The influence of the type of sprayer and adjuvants on the effectiveness of nicosulfuron in the control of weeds in the corn crop".

In November 2022, he enrolled in the first year of doctoral academic studies at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Department of Phytomedicine. At the momet he works at the Institute for Vegetable Crops as a Junior Research Assistant