Antonio Vidaković, MFE, born on March 16, 1995, in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany. I completed both primary school and general high school in Bjelovar, Croatia. After I completed my undergraduate studies in 2016, I pursued a graduate degree in Urban Forestry, Nature Conservation and Environmental Protection at University of Zagreb Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, which I completed in 2019. During graduate studies, I spent six months on an Erasmus student exchange at BOKU University in Vienna, Austria. In 2019, I began working as a research assistant at the Department of Forest Genetics, Dendrology and Botany at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology. In the academic year 2019/2020, I enrolled in the doctoral program in Forestry and Wood Technology at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology. During doctoral studies, I co-authored 23 scientific and professional papers and participated in four national and four international scientific conferences. In 2025, I defended my PhD thesis titled "Morphological and genetic diversity of the populations and chemical composition of the fruits of European wild pear (Pyrus pyraster (L.) Burgsd.) and almond-leaved pear (P. spinosa Forssk.) in Croatia".