Maja Trstenjak graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in 2016, majoring in Industrial Engineering and Management with the highest honors (summa cum laude), for which she was awarded the Faculty Medal for academic achievements. In the same year, she was employed as an assistant at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. The areas of her research are technological process design, multi-criteria decision making and optimization, human factors and ergonomics, and sustainable production. She acted as a part of the organizing committee of the International Scientific Conference MOTSP (Management of Technology Step to Sustainable Production). She won a scholarship for a prestigious doctoral school organized by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), where she received an award as one of the best participants. She is a member of the EIT Manufacturing Hub Croatia.