Dr. Igor Križaj (1963) obtained his PhD from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana (JSI), the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, and Imperial College in London, UK. He also received a PhD from the University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute Pasteur in Paris. He has headed the research programme “Toxins and Biomembranes” since 2004, and the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences at JSI since 2007. He is a full Professor of Biochemistry at the UL and at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School in Ljubljana. His major research topics include (1) toxinology; (2) secreted phospholipases A2, their inhibitors and activators, and physiological and pathological roles; and (3) proteomics and protein structure: structure–function relationships. So far, he has published 167 papers in SCI-ranked journals (PubMed and Cobiss) and 5 chapters in scientific monographs. He has led 30 national, international, or industrial research projects; is a member of several professional societies, and served as an officer in several; and served as the Secretary of the European Section of the International Society on Toxinology (IST) and as a Member of the IST Council from 2004 to 2012. He is an editorial board member at several international scientific journals, including Toxicon. For his scientific achievements, he received the Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize, the Zois Distinction, the Lapanje Award, and the Zois Award.