Dr. Anica Otilia PLACINTA is a 43 years old physicist engineer, senior researcher third degree, in the Seismological Department of National Institute for Earth Physics. She graduated the Faculty of Physics, Bucharest University (2002), obtained her MSc in 2004 and the PhD in 2015. The title of her PhD thesis is: “Study of seismic source and wave propagation based on the waveform analysis of Vrancea earthquakes”. She is member of the Romanian Society of Geophysics and European Geosciences Union. The main fundamental research activities were primarily focused on fields of seismology, seismic sources and seismic sequences (H index 5) (Web of Science Researcher ID GBR-1589-2022).