Liana Toderean received her master’s degree in computer science from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, in 2022, where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree, with a focus on targeting technological enablers for decentralized demand response considering small-scale prosumers and energy communities. She is a Teaching Assistant at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Distributed Systems Research Laboratory and involved in European research projects on decentralized energy systems using blockchain technology and machine learning.