Dr. Iolanda-Gabriela Craifaleanu is an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (UTCB) and a Senior Researcher at INCD URBAN-INCERC. She graduated from UTCB and earned her PhD at the same university, focusing on the nonlinear behavior of reinforced concrete structures subjected to seismic actions. From 1991 to 2003, she was a researcher and building design software developer at IPCT. Later, she served as Head of the Earthquake Engineering Division and Scientific Council member at the National Building Research Institute (INCERC) from 2006 to 2010, and she has been a PhD Supervisor (Habilitation) since 2017. She served as the Romanian Project Director for the NATO Science for Peace project SfP-980468 "Harmonization of Seismic Hazard and Risk Reduction in Countries Influenced by Vrancea Earthquakes" (2005–2008) and the European Commission (DG-ECHO) project “E-PreS” (Monitoring and Evaluation of Natural Hazard Preparedness at School Environment) (2015–2016). Her scientific output includes over 140 papers (53 Clarivate WoS-indexed), 100+ research reports in earthquake engineering, structural analysis, seismic hazard, and signal processing, and 8 books/chapters in Romanian, English, and French, including volumes with Springer and Taylor & Francis. She serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Constructii (CNCSIS B+), a national/international project evaluator, and a peer reviewer for WoS-indexed journals.