Prof. Helena Bujdáková, PhD, is a full professor of Microbiology and the Head of the Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. She is an expert in long-term research focused on microbial biofilms, particularly those formed by yeasts of Candida spp. and bacteria of Staphylococcus aureus. In recent years, her work has expanded to a study of photodynamic inactivation, an alternative strategy against microbial biofilms. She has led numerous national and international projects through bilateral EU partnerships. She has also been awarded Fulbright and JSPS fellowships for research and teaching stays in the USA and Japan. Since 2023, she has served as delegate of the Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology (CSSM), a joint organization of microbiologists from the Slovak and Czech Republics that is affiliated with FEMS, and since 2025, she has been a member of the committee of the biofilm group established at ESCMID.