Peter Capek, PhD, completed his studies in the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava. He completed his scientific and research education in the field of macromolecular chemistry, focusing on the structure, properties, and use of polysaccharides of medicinal plants, at the Chemical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, where he later held the position of representative of the Department of Glycomaterials. He gradually gained scientific experience during postdoctoral stays at York University in Canada, the University of Nagoya, Japan, and INRA, Nantes, France. He has worked extensively with university workplaces in Korea, India, Poland, and the Czech Republic. He was co-researcher and researcher of APVV, VEGA, and COST projects, as well as foreign Italian and English applied projects. He is the author and co-author of 150 scientific papers with a citation index of more than 3000.