Dr. Kristian Pastor is holding a PhD in food engineering, and currently serves as a senior research associate at the Department of Applied and Engineering Chemistry, Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He is very passionate about food forensics and data science – developing methods for food authentication and fraud detection, employing novel data treatment tools, and studying proper human nutrition and health beneficial effects of various foods and beverages. The participation in seminars, trainings, projects and mobility programs in various cultural and professional surroundings such as Iran, Austria, Oman, Germany, Turkey, India, Greece, Morocco and others, significantly influenced his personal and professional development. Having a wide-ranging research interests, he worked in various fields including food analysis and technology, nutrition, environmental monitoring, bioenergy and biofuels, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, data science and applicative machinelearning.