Maja Ižaković is an assistant at the University of Osijek. In 2015, she graduated with a Masters of Process Engineering at the Faculty of Food Technology in Osijek. She is a Ph.D. student at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study of Molecular Biosciences, the University of Osijek, and the Dubrovnik and Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2016, she has been an employee at the Faculty of Food Technology, Department of Food and Nutrition Research, Sub-department of Biology and Microbiology. She did her professional training at the Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals in Prague, Czech Republic. Later, she continued her professional development through collaborating with the Centre for Agricultural Research, Department of Plant Physiology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Martonvasar, Hungary. Her scientific work is directed towards investigations related to abiotic stress in plants and searching for various alternative application techniques of physical nonharmful methods to improve the stress tolerance of plants. She has published four scientific and professional papers and has participated in many scientific conferences.