Emanuela Carmen Beldean is lecturer at the Faculty of Furniture Design and Wood Engineering from Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. She completed her PhD studies in 2004 with the subject: “Contributions to the Study of Dimensional Instability Improvement of Beech Wood by Surface Treatments” and has been awarded with title Magna cum Laudae. She is currently engaged in COST Action 22155 EU-PoTaRCh grant, representing Transilvania University.  Her interests include: forest sustainability, wood preservation: technology development and products testing by field tests, developing new laboratory methods and techniques, wood anatomy, wood finishing and gluing: products development and testing, including new ecological products, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (wooden heritage): concept and intervention, experimental techniques for wood investigation: microscopy, colour measurements in CIELab system, XRF investigation of wooden artefacts.