Associate professor Ivana Špelić, Ph.D. was born in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2009 she became the research associate at University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology and finished postgraduate scientific doctoral study in 2016. From 2019, she works at the Department of Basic natural and technical sciences at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Textile Technology. The areas of special research interest are textile technology and engineering, clothing technology, energetics, technical thermodynamics, energy management in industry and new and renewable energy sources. In 2015 she finished three months research training at University of Maribor Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Slovenia. She published 1 scientific monography, 2 book chapters, 1 university textbook, 11 original scientific papers, 20 scientific papers at international conferences, and several professional and scientific papers at national conferences. She worked as member of organisational, technical and implementing committees at several international scientific conferences and received 2 scientific awards (Certificate of award Gold medal at Kaohsiung International and Design Expo, World Invention Intellectual Property Associations (WIIPA) in 2017, as well as Certificate awarded as member of ITC&DC 2014 Team in 2014, organized under the auspices of DAAAM International Vienna, Austria).