Dr. Cristina Elisabeta Pelin is a Science Researcher at the National Institute for Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli”- INCAS since 2011 and Head of the Materials Team since 2023. She received her BSc (2010) and MSc (2012) in Polymer Science and Engineering and a PhD (2015) in Chemical Engineering at University Politehnica of Bucharest-Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science. Her thesis received the 2nd place at the ICAS-IFAR Award in 2018. She is member of the EREA Future Sky Circular Aviation Theme, representing INCAS. She is the guest editor for a special issue in the Polymers journal from MDPI.  Her research interests include polymeric composite materials, nanocomposites, fiber-reinforced composites, fibers, ablative materials, carbon-carbon composites, mechanical properties, and thermal properties of materials from aeronautics and aerospace.