Ana Cornelia is an Associate Professor at the Manufacturing and Industrial Management Department, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Pitești University Center. She has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pitesti (2011). She served as the Director of the Technology Transfer Center from 2018 to 2020. Currently she serves as the Director of Research, Development, and Innovation at the Technology Transfer Center (since 2020). She has taught supply chain management, modeling and simulation (Arena, Promodel, PlanSimulatin software), and the ERP system – MFG and ABAS. Her research interests include production and logistics processes and systems, modelling and simulations with discrete events, and the lean manufacturing method. She is a member of the Professional Association in Modern Manufacturing Technologies, Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile, and the Romanian Association of Economist Managers and Engineers (AMIER).