Prof. Dr. Gabriela Vlase is an Associate Professor of the Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, and Geography at the West University of Timisoara. She completed her Ph.D. studies in Chemistry at the West University of Timisoara and served as a Doctoral supervisor since 2015. Her interests include materials, kinetics and non-isothermal kinetics, thermal analysis, and spectrophotometry, and her research focuses on science materials, thermal analysis (TG/DTG/DTA/EGA, DSC, TMA), lifetime prediction, heterogeneous catalysis, and FT-IR spectroscopy and microscopy.