Ruxandra Angela Pirvulescu, MD, PhD is currently Associate Professor at the Ophthalmology Department, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. Her main interests are Basic and Clinical Ophthalmology Research. Dr. Pirvulescu has been participating in long-term interdisciplinary projects within the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele and the Pathology Department of the Emergency University Hospital in Bucharest. Her PhD thesis, defended in 2010, contributed to these valuable team projects. Dr. Pirvulescu combines teaching Opthalmology to sixth-year students with both clinical and scientific work.