Luminița Bejenaru, Dr. habil., is Professor of Biology at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, where she has been a faculty member since 1992 and currently serves as Director of the Doctoral School of Biology. She holds a Bachelor’s degree and a PhD in Biology (Comparative Anatomy) from the same university and completed postgraduate specialization in palaeontology and archaeozoology at the University of Liège. Her research interests include archaeozoology, comparative anatomy, and paleoanthropology. She is a Scientific Researcher II at the Olga Necrasov Anthropological Research Center of the Romanian Academy – Iași Branch and a member of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) and the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA).