**About the Editor**

#### **Sabina Fijan**

Sabina Fhas been employed at the University of Maribor since May 1999, first as a researcher at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering on various EU projects in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework programs of the European Commission. During this time, she has completed her Master thesis (2003) and Doctoral thesis (2005), followed by a postdoctoral project (2010) in the field of determining the influence of various antimicrobial procedures against pathogenic microorganisms.

Since 2011, she has been engaged as a university professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia. She is the coordinator of the elective units: Beneficial foods and beneficial microbes (postgraduate students of nursing, course Preventative and Clinical Nutrition), Impact of beneficial microorganisms on health (postgraduate students of nursing, course Public health), Chosen chapters of Microbiology and Biochemistry (for postgraduate students of Bioinformatics) and Project acquisition, management and execution (undergraduate students of Nursing).

She has published research in several recognised international journals. Her research involves studying how pathogenic microorganisms are influenced by beneficial microorganisms, mainly probiotics.
