Eugene Yurchenko (Yauheni Yurchanka) is an Associate Professor at Bialystok University of Technology, Poland. He graduated from Belarusian State University in 1996, majoring in botany. In 2001, he earned his doctorate (Candidate of Biological Sciences) from V.F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany in Belarus. Throughout his career, Dr. Yurchenko has worked at Institute of Experimental Botany (1996-2010, 2011-2012), Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science (2010-2011), and Polessky State University in Belarus (2012-2021). His research was focused on mycology, forest pathology, plant molecular genetics, and plant ecology. Since 2021, he has been conducting studies on the biodiversity of wood-inhabiting fungi and the antibacterial activities of their metabolites at Bialystok University of Technology. His main research interests lie in the taxonomy, ecology, and geography of corticioid fungi (Basidiomycota). Dr. Yurchenko is a founder member of the European Mycological Association.