Yasmina Marin-Felix has more than 10 years of experience in the mycological field. During her Ph.D. at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain), she studied the diversity of ascomycete fungi from soil. Her experience in the cultivation and polyphasic characterization of these organisms allowed her to obtain financing to develop different postdoc projects focused on fungal diversity at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (the Netherlands) and at the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (South Africa). Due to her motivation to further expand her basic knowledge to a more applied one, she moved to the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Germany) when she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. During this period, her focus was the isolation of bioactive secondary metabolites produced by fungi belonging to the order Sordariales. Recently, she was funded by the DFG for a project based on the biological and chemical diversity of coprophilous fungi. She continues with a strong focus on the secondary metabolism of the Sordariales, which have been demonstrated to be prolific producers of bioactive compounds.