Dr. Bačeva Andonvska works as a Senior Research Associate in the Research Center for Environment and Materials at the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of North Macedonia – MANU, Skopje, in the field of Environment. The scientific and research activities of Dr. Katerina Bačeva Andonovska focus on the areas of analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, hyperaccumulator plant-distribution, metal accumulation potentials, and practical applications and geochemistry, particularly in environmental pollution of various types of samples (air, soil, and water) with spectroscopic techniques for elemental composition (with atomic absorption spectrometry, atomic emission spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma, mass spectrometry, etc.).