Gimi Aurelian Rîmbu graduated from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest as a Chemical Engineer in 1998 and the PhD program in Chemical Engineering in 2004. He started his professional career in 1998 as a research assistant at the Institute for R&D in Electrical Engineering (SC ICPE SA Bucharest) and later at the National Institute for R&D in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA in Bucharest (2004), finally becoming the first-grade Senior Research Scientist by 2011. He has been an elected Member of the Institute’s Scientific Advisory Board since 2014 and appointed as the Head of the Department for Environment, Energy, and Climate Change since 2019. His scientific activity is mainly focused on applicative research. During his professional work, he has conducted extensive research on developing products and applications in energy-related technologies like batteries (e.g. Redox Flow and Li-ion), fuel cells (e.g. PEM and Direct Methanol), biotechnologies (e.g. Microbial Fuel Cells for wastewater treatment and energy harvesting) and also hydrogen production by electrolysis and hydrogen storage technologies. During his career, he used to run successful research programs at different prestigious universities like the University of Bucharest (2005), the Newcastle University (UK) (2003-2004 and 2006), and the University of the West of England—Bristol Bio-Energy Centre (UK) (2016-2017). He acted as a project director in national and international calls.