Prof. Ivona Bago is a specialist in Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry and a full-time assistant professor at the Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb. She graduated from the School of Dental Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia in 2005 and earned a PhD in the field of laser use in endodontics at the same school in 2013. She obtained a two-year postgraduate master's degree in EMDOLA (European Master Degree in Oral Laser Application, 2012–2014) at the Sophia Antipolis University in Nice, France. Since 2010, she has been working at the Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb. In 2013, she was awarded by the Society of University Teachers and Scientists in Zagreb for the best study published in an international journal in 2012. For the same study, she was awarded the Annual Award of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb. In 2013, she won the prize for the best scientific study and oral presentation at the European Congress of the World Federation of Laser in Dentistry, Brussels, Belgium. From 2020, she has been head of the scientific project in the field of laser use in endodontics financed by the Croatian Science Foundation. She is the president of the Croatian Endodontic Society.