Željana Fredotović completed her postgraduate studies in Biology at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb in 2017. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Split. She conducts research in the field of biological activity of phytochemicals and phytonutrients, genotoxicity and cytotoxicity invitro, organization and evolution of genome in higher plants: polyploidy, repetitive and mobile DNA sequences, the molecular basis of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, and genetics and molecular phylogeny of invasive species. She is part of the Croatian Science Foundation research project entitled "EcologyofAerobicAnoxygenicPhototrophsinthe Adriatic Sea" (UIP-2019-04-8401).