Andjelija Ilić (Dipl. Eng. electrical engineering, M.Sc. electrical engineering, Ph.D. electrical engineering) is currently a senior research associate with the Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade. In 2013 and 2014, she was also a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the School of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London, UK. Her research interests are in the fields of applied physics and applied electromagnetics, including numerical methods in physics / electromagnetics, microwave components and circuits, biomedical engineering, novel materials in electrical engineering, and ion beam dynamics. She holds two patents in biomedical engineering. She is currently serving as a Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Fractal and Fractional Analysis in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering” in the journal Fractal and Fractional (IF: 5.4). Dr. Ilić is the Senior Member of IEEE. In 2016, she was the recipient of the “Prof. Aleksandar Marinčić” Award given annually by the IEEE MTTS chapter, for the best journal paper, as well as the 2006 Young Scientist and the 2014 Best Paper ETRAN Awards.

Andrea Radalj is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Belgrade. She is a lecturer in undergraduate and postgraduate programs and does scientific work in Microbiology and Immunology. She conducts research in the field of veterinary virology and specializes in the biology of various DNA and RNA viruses of veterinary importance. She has extensive experience with conventional and molecular methods of virological diagnostics. She completed her training in diagnostic virology at the Institute of Virology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and the Veterinary Specialist Institute "Kraljevo". Andrea is a member of the editorial board of the journal Acta Veterinaria and a member of the Serbian Society of Microbiology, the Serbian Veterinary Chamber, and the Serbian Veterinary Society. She is the author and co-author of a number of publications in journals of national and international importance.

Irena Arandjelović is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. She is a specialist in Medical Microbiology and PhD in Molecular Medicine. Her research is focused on the molecular epidemiology of mycobacteria, primarily the evolution of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. She has been a member of the National Reference Laboratory for Tuberculosis since 2009. In 2013, she was granted by FEMS (Federation of European Microbiology Societies) Research Grant for research and training on the performance of spoligotyping, MIRU-VNTR and whole genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis strains at the Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology Group, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Arandjelović was engaged in the project “Control of Tuberculosis in Serbia”, implemented by the Ministry of Health, Republic of Serbia, and supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Since 2017, she has been engaged as a contributor to the whole genome sequencing data on multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains isolated in Serbia in realization of the CRyPTIC (Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis: an International Consortium) project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust/MRC Newton Fund. Dr. Arandjelovic was the Principal Investigator of the IN-DEPTH project (An evolutionary insight into molecular diversity of emerging pathogens in Serbia through a phylogenetic approach) funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia from 2020 to 2023. Since 2023, she has been engaged as coordinator of the WP2 (Influence of ionization on airborne and cultured bacteria) during the realization of the project IonCleanTech.

Silvio R. De Luka (MD, MSc and PhD at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade) is Full Professor and Head of the Institute of Pathological Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. His research interests are in the field of biomagnetism, aging and trace elements alteration in various pathological conditions. Prof De Luka has been participant on 6 projects, the last one funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. Thus far, he published 41 scientific papers in international peer-review journals, 30 chapters in international and national monographs and textbooks, and more than 50 presentations of his research at international and national scientific conferences.

Dr Mira Aničić Urošević is a Principal Research Fellow employed in Environmental Physics Laboratory, Institute of Physics Belgrade since 2005. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology, the University of Belgrade in 2002, while her MSc and Ph.D. degrees were received at the Faculty of Chemistry, the University of Belgrade in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Her research interest is multidisciplinary tackling biology, chemistry, and physics in the area of environmental pollution − detection and control. She has experience in the research of (bio)monitoring of pollutants (particles, potentially toxic elements, organic compounds, microplastics) in the environment. Thus far, she published 43 scientific papers in international peer-review journals, 10 chapters in international monographs, 2 edited monographs, and more than 50 presentations of her research at international scientific conferences. Her h-index is 24, and the number of citations is more than 1500. Mira is a member of the Council of the International Association for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollution (IABEP).

Prof. Dr. Jelena Ajtić is a full professor in Physics and Biophysics at the University of Belgrade–Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. She graduated physics from the University of Belgrade, completed her PhD studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and her postdoctoral studies with the Service d'Aéronomie in Paris, France. She is the Head of the Department of General Education at the Faculty where she teaches physics-based courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her main research interests are: radioactivity in different environmental samples, atmospheric processes, ultraviolet radiation in the environment, and biometeorology. She has participated in international and national research projects, and is currently the principal investigator in a bilateral research project. Her bibliography includes more than 100 bibliographic items and 11 textbooks. She has served as a member of scientific committees of national and international conferences and as a reviewer for scientific journals and conference proceedings. She is a Fulbright visiting scholar 2023–2024 at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, USA.

Jelena Trajković (B.Sc. physics, M.Sc. physics) is currently a junior research assistant with the Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in physics and is currently participating in three research projects. In 2018/2019, she also performed student research at Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Her research interests include applied physics / electromagnetics, ionic physics, mathematical and computer modeling, as well as biomedical image analysis. Her role within this project includes experiments, data analysis, computer modeling.