Associate professor at the University of Piteşti (Romania), and head of the Department of Natural Sciences. She received her PhD in 2006 from the University of Bucharest working on fern embryogenesis. She has been researching in the pteridology field for 20 years and has a background in leading and managing large, multidisciplinary, multi-partner research projects. In the last decade, she has worked in two main fields: the biological activity and toxicity of plant extracts and the use of ferns in ecotoxicology.