Ivana Plazonić is an associate professor at the Department of Fundamental and general knowledge, University of Zagreb Faculty of Graphic Arts, where she has been teaching since 2007. She graduated from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, in 2006. In 2014, she received her Ph.D. degree on the topic of her doctoral dissertation, “Grain straw as an alternative source of fibers for coldset paper production”. Currently, she is an active researcher on the project “Printability, quality and utilization of substrates with non-wood fibres” (UIP-05-2017), supported by the Croatian Science Foundation (2018-2023). As part of the COST project E48 during STSM training in 2009, she spent 3 weeks in the INGEDE International Association of the Deinking Industry in Bietigheim-Bissingen, where she contributed today's INGEDE Method 16-1. To date, she has published 113 scientific papers, 32 of them in peer-reviewed journals. She is a member of numerous scientific and technological committees at international scientific conferences. She received the IAEERR award as the best reviewer of the CoMSE2021 conference in 2021, the Award for Science Technology Transfer from WAIT in 2017, and the Best Presentation Award of the ICSMA2022 Conference in 2022.