Dr. Jovana Vunduk works as a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of General and Physical Chemistry in Belgrade. Throughout her academic and private sector career, she finished specializations at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany), the EFSA (Italy), the Biotechnical Faculty in Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva (Israel). She participated in several international projects, including two Horizon 2020s, two national projects, one collaboration project between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Serbia, and one bilateral as well as the national project of the Argentinian government "Plan A". She is also experienced in international cooperation with the producers of mushroom dietary supplements. In Serbia, she cooperated with local start-ups and developed the first mushroom-based dietary supplements approved by the Serbian Ministry of Health. She also holds three technological solutions dealing with mushroom cultivation and mushroom-based functional foods and animal feed. She is active in national associations for the promotion of mushrooms.