Tijana Martinović currently works at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and is an external associate of the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI). She is a member of the research group on the scientific project " Environmental drivers of fungal community composition in the Mediterranean region of Croatia (FunMed)" HRZZ-IP-2022-10-5219, led by Armin Mešić, PhD. Her stay at the IRB is funded "by the European Union - NextGenerationEU" through support from the internal competition Mobility of Researchers (MZ2-24) under the Program Agreement of the Ruđer Bošković Institute and The Ministry of Science, Education and Youth of Croatia (2024-2027).