Irina Ontel currently works within the Remote Sensing & Satellite Meteorology Lab of the National Meteorological Administration, Bucharest. Irina conducts research in remote sensing using statistical methods and GIS techniques. Additionally, she focuses on the development of remote sensing applications in climatology, agrometeorology and environment protection. She graduated with a PhD in Geography at the Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest in 2018. Her PhD thesis was related to the study of severe meteorological events (drought and dryness) using satellite data, and one important chapter was about the impact of drought on yield crops.