Dana Alina Magdas is Head of the Mass Spectrometry, Chromatography, and Applied Physics Department at the National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Romania and a Habilitated Professor in the Faculty of Physics at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University. She has published more than 125 research articles in international refereed journals, one book, and four book chapters as the main author and has a Hirsch index of 23 according to WOS. Her fundamental and applied research activities are oriented to the field of food science. In this regard, her research employs the application of mass spectrometry techniques (Isotope Ratio MS, Inductively Coupled Plasma MS) and spectroscopies (IR, Raman, fluorescence, NMR) in corroboration with artificial intelligence or chemometrics for food and beverage authentication and label validation. The 15 national and international projects she has coordinated were conducted in cooperation either with academic or economic entities. She has been a Guest Editor of multiple Special Issue volumes in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Analytical Letters, Applied Sciences, and Molecules.