Professor Babić has been employed at the Faculty of Food Technology in Osijek since 2002 where he graduated and earned his Ph.D. in 2007. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Food Technology in Osijek since 2017. His professional activity includes teaching at the Faculty of Food Technology in Osijek, and as a visiting professor, at the Faculty of Tourism and Rural Development in Požega and at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Technology in Mostar.

He has published more than 140 scientific and professional papers. He is the co-author of one university textbook and the editor of one scientific monograph. He is also the author/co-author of 14 book chapters. He has actively participated in 22 scientific and professional projects.

Professor Babić has received several awards for his achievements in scientific research: the State Prize for Science in 2019, the annual Vera Johanides Award of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences for young scientists in 2007, and the Rikard Podhorsky Award in 2017.

In 2013, he became the associate member of the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences, and since 2015 he has been its full member.

Doctor of Biotechnical Sciences (PhD awarded in 2003) from the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, where she has been employed since 1994.

She is a Full Professor with tenure and has served as Dean of the Faculty since 2024. She has participated in numerous international and national scientific research projects, for which she has received multiple awards. She is an active member of several scientific and professional associations.

As a lecturer, she has taken part in many international and domestic professional conferences, congresses, and workshops, and has also undertaken study visits to related institutions in Austria and Hungary.
She is the author or co-author of approximately sixty scientific and professional papers.

She is a member of editorial boards and a guest editor for several international professional journals and publications.

After completing his studies and obtaining the title of Food Technologist from the Faculty of Food and Biotechnology in Osijek, he founded Carica nova in 2008. This company specializes in management and business consulting in the food industry sector with the main focus on technical and technological supervision of quality control in hotel and catering facilities.

He completed training at the Technischer Überwachungsverein (TÜV),Thüringen, Germany – where he received the title of Technical Expert for the Quality Management System in 2011, International Auditor for OHSAS 18001, EN ISO 14001, 2012, EOQ, Quality Manager (according to ISO 9001) and Energy Efficiency Manager (according to EN ISO 50001) in 2013.

He is a licensed international auditor with ample experience; he has been introducing quality management systems for twenty years. He completed numerous training workshops and invested in his own education in the field of standardized management systems. He is also an auditor of management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, HACCP, etc.) in various catering and hotel facilities and industrial sectors.

In 2015, he was awarded the Charter of the “Croatian Society for Quality” for stimulating and adopting quality systems in the Croatian economy.

He is one of the five Master Chefs in the Croatian Master Chefs Association (part of the World Master Chefs Society founded by Jean Conil, French chef of the Buckingham Palace in 1947). This association with branches all over the world promotes high-quality cuisine and the adoption of the highest standards according to very strict criteria. Savanović’s brilliant career, which has lasted more than thirty years, has been crowned with many awards – gold medals from national and international competitions. Throughout this time, he has consistently honed his culinary skills using authentic Croatian ingredients.

In fact, he knew from an early age that he would be a chef since he grew up in a gourmet family headed by his grandfather the butcher. After elementary school, he gained his first professional experience at the Park Hotel in Split. He was such a good student at the school specializing in hospitality and tourism that he was exempted from taking the compulsory state leaving exam. In 1992, he went to Germany where he worked as a chef in Italian restaurants. There, he particularly studied the preparation of steaks and the best cuts of meat, probably because of his grandfather’s heritage. For a year, he worked as a chef at Esplanada Hotel in Wegberg, where he cooked for prominent guests. He came back to Croatia in 1995 and became a lecturer at the Culinary Academy of the Association of Chefs from Mediterranean and European Regions (Cro. SKMER). He is one of the founders of the Chefs Club Croatia, with which he participates in many competitions and education programs, thus promoting Croatian gastronomy.

Ivica Katić graduated from the secondary school specialising in tourism and hospitality in 1999. Ten years later, he became a Master Chef. He completed training courses in a wide range of cooking styles; from Indian, Japanese, Cantonese, Italian to German cuisine. In 2008, he participated in a course at Jumeirah Resort in Dubai. From 2000 to 2002, he first worked as a cook and later as chef in charge of a shift in Supetrvs hotels. He held the same position in the Bota Šare restaurant in 2003, and a year later in the Bačvice restaurant in Split. In February 2004, he moved to Germany, to the Ventura restaurant in Frankfurt, where he became a chef. After returning to Split, he was the executive chef at the Atrium hotel in Split, and then at the ZOI restaurant. His career continued to move upward at the Ambasador Hotel in Split. He was part of the team who prepared the opening of the hotel where he later worked as the executive chef. With the cooking brigade Katić formed, the restaurant soon became one of the leading gourmet addresses in Split. At the end of 2023, he moved to Aminess Khalani Hotel in Makarska, again as executive chef. In 2017, the Croatian Chamber of Trades and Crafts awarded him with the Charter for Promotion and Implementation of Quality in the Croatian economy.