Lidija Svečnjak graduated in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia. At the same University, she obtained a PhD in 2015 in the field of Agricultural sciences. Since 2016, she worked as an assistant professor and from 2022 as an associate professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture. Her main research interest is apiculture, the analysis of bee products (FTIR-ATR spectroscopy, physical–chemical analysis, and sensory analysis), as well as the biology and ecology of honey bees and other pollinators, as well as chemical fingerprinting of various biological samples by FTIR spectroscopy, She gained experience at several institutions abroad: Wellington, New Zealand; Bologna, Italy; Greifswald, Germany; Bern, Switzerland). Currently, she is involved in several scientific projects that include FTIR-ATR spectroscopic profiling of various biological samples. She is an active member of two working groups (Authenticity of Bee Products and Sensory analysis) within the International Honey Commission (IHC), the COLOSS Honey Bee Research Association, and a member of the Croatian Metrology Society (HMD). She participated in the work of WG beeswax of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on the risk assessment of beeswax adulteration for humans and animals (honey bees) in the mandate period 2019/2020. A list of publications is available at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9pQsplsAAAAJ&hl=en