Ştefan Marincea, a senior research scientist at the Geological Institute of Romania, has led this 112-year-old institution since 2006. Doctoral and post-doctoral studies in Bucharest and Saint Etienne, research stays in Saint Etienne, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Liège. Doctoral degrees in Génie des Procédés at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), and in Geology at the University of Bucharest (1998). He is an honorary collaborator at the University of Liège from the year 2004. Current research focuses on the mineralogy of magnesian skarns, high-temperature calcic skarns as well as on cave and pegmatite mineralogy.