Mateja Breg Valjavec is a research fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She received a Ph.D. in karstology from the University of Nova Gorica (2012). She (co-)authored several research papers and is involved in national and EU projects dealing with karst geomorphology, biogeography and remote sensing. Currently, she is involved in several studies as an expert in environmental protection, acquisition of field data with TLS, and geophysical measurements. She is head of GIS department, member of editorial board of the journal Acta Geographica Slovenica, and Symposium GIS in Slovenia. She received the Melik award for the best young scientist, awarded by the Association of Slovenian Geographers (Slovenia, 2015) and the Scholarship of the Research Center on Karst under the Auspices of UNESCO (China, 2018).