Prof. Aleksandra Duda is a full Professor at the Department of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology, University of Agriculture in Krakow (since 2021). She earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology, and physiology from the Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University in 2002. From 2003 to 2006, she worked as an assistant at the Akademia Rolnicza. In 2006, she joined the University of Agriculture in Krakow as an Assistant Professor. Her research interests include polyphenols, antioxidants, gastroenterology, gut microbiota, microbiology, applied microbiology, bio, acrylamide, lactic acid bacteria, and probiotics.