Berenika Hausnerova is a full professor of the technology of macromolecular compounds at the Centre of Polymer Systems, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic. She holds a 1989-2008 Engineer's degree, and a PhD in the Technology of Macromolecular Compounds from Brno University of Technology. Her area of expertise is the processing of highly filled polymers used in powder injection molding and additive manufacturing, and waste polymers for energy harvesting. Her work has been acknowledged with the “Werner von Siemens Excellence Award” (1999) and a stipend “For Women in Science” from L'Oréal, UNICEF, and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2006). She is a member of the Society of Plastics Engineers (since 2001).