Dr Ilija Djekic is a full professor at the Faculty of Agriculture—University of Belgrade. His teaching portfolio covers the quality and environmental topics in food science and he lectures various courses at all three levels of studies. To date, he has lectured to over 1,200 students and supervised 30+ PhD and Master's theses. During his research and scientific consulting activities, he participated in 15+ (inter)national scientific projects and his contracted scientific consulting was performed in 100+ food companies. His scientific portfolio is deployed for evaluating food industry performance by using existing and / or developing new diagnostic models and tools for analyzing food quality / food safety / food sustainability performance at the product, process, and company level, and identifying improvement possibilities throughout the food supply chain. Ilija Djekic has (co-)authored more than 250 full papers, out of which 170+ are in journals included in the © ISI Web of Knowledge, as well as ten chapters and five books. He has international experience in over ten countries and serves as an Editor in different peer-reviewed journals. He has appeared in the years 2021, 2022, and 2023 on the Stanford list of top 2% world’s most-cited scientists.