Prof. Dr. Ion N. Mihailescu received his Ph.D. from the Central Institute of Physics, Bucharest, in 1982. From 1969 to 1975, he served as a Physicist at the Lasers Department, Institute of Atomic Physics. From 1975 to 1989, he worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Physics and Technology of Radiation Devices, Central Institute of Physics. Now he is the head of the "Laser-Surface-Plasma Interactions" laboratory, Professor at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, and Senior research scientist 1-st degree at National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics. His current research interests include pulsed laser deposition (PLD); modification and characterization of nanostructured thin coatings; matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE); laser surface studies and processing; biomaterials thin layers; tissue engineering; biomimetic metallic implants; and optoelectronics and sensors. He is also a member of the Optical Society of America, European Physical Society (Quantum Electronic Division), Romanian Physical Society, and International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE). He is the winner of the 1994 "Galileo Galilei" Award of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) and the 1975 "Constantin Miculescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy. From 2019 he has been OSA fellow.