Romana Vulturar is a lecturer in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at the "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy. She received her M.D. in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Medicine—Cell and Molecular Biology in 2004, both from the “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy. She also holds an M.Sc. degree in Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience, and she completed her medical residency (2000–2005) in the field of medical genetics. Since 2011, she has been a senior physician (the highest degree for physicians in Romania) in medical genetics, being involved in the diagnosis of certain rare genetic disorders like inborn errors of metabolism. She joined the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in 2008, where she supervised the development of laboratory protocols for genetic association studies and contributed to gene-environment interaction studies on emotion and emotion regulation.