Mariana Busila has a B.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering („Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Faculty of Metallurgy and Materials Science), a M.Sc. degree in Chemistry („Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Faculty of Chemistry) and a PhD. degree in the field of Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering Materials and Environment, University "Dunarea de Jos" in co-tutelage with "University of Applied Sciences", Mönchengladbach, Germany). She is currently Assistant Professor of Engineering in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering „Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. She has experience in the following areas: obtaining of nanostructures by chemical methods from solution with antibacterial and photocatalytic properties; obtaining of nanomaterial-based coatings for glass, metal and textile substrates by spin-coating, dip-coating, ultrasonic and pad-dry-cure methods; morphological and structural characterization of micro - and nanostructured materials (interpretation of results obtained by (TEM), (SEM- EDAX), (XRD), (FTIR); and the evaluation of antibacterial and photocatalytic properties for nanostructures and textile materials.