Purcărea Cornelia is an Associate professor at the Food Engineering Department, Faculty for Environmental Protection, University of Oradea. She completed her PhD studies in biology at the University of Oradea. She recently led research topics in projects in bioeconomy, agriculture, and functional foods. She has published 60 papers in various journals. Her teaching disciplines include biochemistry, contaminants in food, and secondary products of metabolism, and her interests include bioactive compounds, antigenotoxicity, biotic and abiotic stress markers, and the Comet assay.