Dr. Ivana Atanasovska is a full research professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art (MISANU). She graduated in mechanical engineering and received her M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Kragujevac. She is the chair of the permanent seminar "Mechanics of Machines and Mechanisms - models and mathematical methods" at MISANU since 2019 and deputy head of the Department of Mechanics since 2021. Since 2019, she has been an evaluator of the international EU project “Marie Skłodowska-Curie” (MSCA) and has held the position of associate editor in the “Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science,” SAGE, UK. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. She has very active internationally and has been involved in the realization of PhD dissertations in Serbia, India, France, and Algeria. She is the founder and chairman of a series of International Conferences on Mathematical Modeling in Mechanics and Engineering (ICME). She is a member of the Serbian Society of Mechanics, UTAM, and the deputy president of the Scientific Society for Engineering Design, Simulations and Innovations – EnDIS, Belgrade. Since 2007, she has been actively involved in the standard adoption through the Institute for Standardization of the Republic of Serbia.