Damjana Drobac Backović, Ph.D. is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where she received her Ph.D. in field of Hidrobiology in 2015. Her research primary focuses on cyanobacteria, harmful algal blooms, cyanotoxins, bioaccumulation, human exposure, public health risk, environmental toxicology, water quality & safety. Over the course of her career, she has gained extensive experience through participation in several national and international scientific projects including: Republic project - Transformation of Serbian Geospace – lessons from the past, contemporary problems and possible solutions; Bilateral project Serbia – Hungary Invasive and blooming cyanobacteria in Serbian and Hungarian waters; Erasmus + Training mobility for staff at the Department of Aquaculture, Szent István University in Gödöllő, Hungary and at the Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland; and Research network on the metabolome of cyanobacteria – CyanoMeta, Visegrad + Grants, supported by Visegrad Fund. Her research output includes over 25 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating more than 1400 citations with an h-index of 18 (Scopus). Dr. Drobac Backović is currently awarded and ranked among the top 10% of scientifically excellent researchers in Serbia, according to the official evaluation by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation.