Dr. Ivana Kušan is a Research Associate in the Laboratory for Biological Diversity at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia. She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Department of Biology at the University of Osijek, Croatia. Dr. Kušan’s research interests primarily encompass fungal diversity, mycology, fungal biology, ecology of fungi, biodiversity distribution, systematics, taxonomy, and molecular mycology.