Dr. Saša Đurović is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of General and Physical Chemistry, Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, with a B.Sc. (Honors) in 2011 and a Master in Science in 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Engineering at the Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, in 2019. His areas of expertise are the application of GC/MS, extracting natural compounds using conventional and nonconventional extraction techniques, biological activities of extracts and natural compounds, and formulation of functional food products. Dr. Saša Đurović was elected as an invited professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 2022, 2023, and 2024. In 2023, he was nominated and elected as a Full Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, for contributing to science.