Cristiana Vîlcea has a PhD in regional geography. She has been part of the Geography Department at the University of Craiova since 2009. She is interested in the field of spatial analysis, GIS and regional geography and recently she has conducted her research in statistical analysis using R and Python. She has published eight research articles in ISI journals and 19 research articles in journals indexed in other international databases. She published two books and two chapters in nationally and internationally published books.