**Meet the editors**

Prof. Goran S. Nikolić was born in Knez Selo (Niš, Serbia) on 1 November 1966. He received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering (2001) from the University of Niš. Currently, he is working as a full professor at the same university, on pharmaceutical-cosmetic engineering group of subjects at the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac. His research activities are development of pharmaceutical products and quality control of drugs. His competences are experience in project management and managing of academic institution at different levels. He is a member of several national projects in the technological development area and member of numerous TEMPUS Joint European projects of sustainable technologies, environmental application, and management courses. He has authored more than 300 scientific papers, numerous technological solutions for pharmaceutical industry, national monographies, international patents, university textbooks, and invitation lecturers. He is the editor of two international monographs on FTIR spectroscopy (InTech Open).

Prof. Milorad D. Cakić was born on 26 May 1951 in Leskovac, Serbia. He finished his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry in Skopje (Macedonia) in 1975. He completed his master studies in the field of molecular spectroscopy in 1978. His PhD thesis was defended at the same university in 1984. He was elected in 1985 as assistant professor at the University of Niš, Faculty of Technology in Leskovac, where he works today as a full professor. His main scientific interest is structure-spectral correlation investigations by different spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. He had published a number of articles in the field of synthesis and characterization of compounds with proven or potential pharmaceutical activity. He was an editor of many scientific publications and reviewer in a number of journals. His competences are experience in project management and managing of academic institution at different levels (dean, vice dean, head of the department, head of the laboratory, member of the senate, and deputy president of the Expert Board for Natural Sciences and Mathematics). Prof. Cakić is a member of the Board for the Accreditation of Scientific-Research Organizations of the Republic of Serbia.

Prof. Dragan J. Cvetković was born on 26 June 1977 in Leskovac. He finished elementary and high school in Lebane, and then he completed his studies at the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac in the year 2002.He finished his PhD thesis in the year 2012 at the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac. Dragan Cvetković participated in the realization of numerous projects funded by the Ministry of Science, Republic of Serbia. He was engaged on the project "Folding and Stability of Phycobilisome Proteins" at the Institute of Biology and Technology of Saclay, France. He also participated in realization of the project entitled "Contribution of Chemical Quenching of Singlet Oxygen to Pro- and Antioxidant Activity of Carotenoids," funded by the Polish Ministry of Science. He was elected as a teaching assistant in the year 2008on Physical Chemistry, Colloid Chemistry, and Instrumental Analysis, but in the year 2012, he was elected as an assistant professor on physicochemical group of subjects at the Faculty of Technology in Leskovac.
