Caraba (Filimon) Marioara Nicoleta, a graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, and Geography, specializing in microbiology and human and animal physiology, is an associate professor at West University from Timisoara. Her research areas are soil, air, and water microbiology, environmental science, ecotoxicology, medical bacteriology and virusology, and cell cultures. She has published more than 100 scientific papers (43 ISI and ISI Proceeding, 69 BDI) and 5 books in the job field. She participated in 8 research grants, of which 2 involved her role as a project manager. She is a reviewer for numerous journals.