Petronela Cozma is currently Lecturer at the Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, “Cristofor Simionescu” Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University Iasi (TUIASI), Romania. She holds a PhD degree in Environmental Engineering (2013), Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Management (2008), Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering (2007), all from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania. Her research interests are: sustainable industrial production; bioremediation of environmental components contaminated with heavy metals(phytoremediation/biosorption/bioaccumulation); risk estimation and management; chemical and biological process engineering with applications in environmental engineering; modeling, simulation and process design. Membership in organizations and professional groups: Member of Academic Organization of Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development; Member of Environmental Engineering and Impact Assessment Research Center; Member of FEMS (Federation of European Microbiological Societies); Member of EFB (European Federation of Biotechnology). The scientific activity consists in: •authorship of 10 books/chapters, 47 papers in WoS journals (22) + proceedings (25), 20 papers in other journals included in international databases (others than WoS), 2 national patents; • International prizes (14); •Awarding of research results- PRECISI (7).