Gratiela TIHAN has been an associate professor at the Department of General Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnologies, University Politehnica of Buchares since 2017. She pursued her Ph.D in Chemistry at the Department of General Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest from 2001 to 2007. She is a member of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences-EuCheMS, the European Federation of Biotechnology, the Society of Chemistry (Romania) (SRCh), the Society for Biomaterials (Romania), and SPIE (the International Society for Optical Engineering). Her research interests include collagen-based biomaterials and delivery systems for active agents.