Dr. Katarzyna Kała is a PhD at the Department of Medicinal Plant and Mushroom Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her skills and expertise include mushroom science, mushroom cultivation, fungal biology, fungal biotechnology and fungal diversity. The scientific achievements fall within the discipline of pharmaceutical sciences. She has an impact factor (IF) of 176.82 and a Hirsch index of 16 (source: Web of Science). She has co-authored 63 publications, 11 book chapters, 1 monograph, 2 popular science articles, and numerous conference abstracts (>90). In 2023, she obtained the title of specialist in pharmaceutical analytics.