Dr. Maria Mitu is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry - Ilie Murgulescu (ICF). She studied chemistry at the University of Bucharest and obtained the Ph.D. title in the field of Chemistry from University of Bucharest in 2004. Dr. Maria Mitu has her main expertise in chemical kinetics in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, combustion and flames of gases, flammability of gaseous/vapours mixtures in air, safety characteristics for deflagration regime. Since January 2020 she is leader of a project in ICF. Dr. Mitu was team member of 11 national grants and a national research program and participated to 5 research projects and 16 research themes during the stages at PTB-Braunschweig in the field of gaseous explosions. She disseminated original results in more than 84 ISI-papers (ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1825-3984), and has an H-index of 27 (according to Scopus). She won the “Nicolae Teclu” Award of the Romanian Academy in 2012.