Dr. Alina Nicolescu is a Senior Researcher at the "Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry. She received her PhD in Chemistry in 2016 from the Romanian Academy Doctoral School and her current research interests include structural and stereochemical studies for organic, organometallic, and macromolecular compounds, as well as NMR metabolomics in life sciences. She is currently the manager of the NMR facility in the "Petru Poni" Institute. She was awarded the “Costin D. Nenitescu” Medal of the Romanian Chemical Society in 2015. She won the Prize of the Romanian Academy in 2018 and the "Researcher of the Year Trophy for Women" in Science of UNESCO and L'Oreal in 2012. She is also a Founding Member of the Romanian Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Member of the Romanian Chemical Society.