Dorel Ureche is an associate professor at ”Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Romania. He is also the director of the Institute for Research, Development, Innovation, Consultancy and Technology Transfer at the same university. He has a Ph.D. in Ichthyology. His research interests are best summarized in the fields of aquatic ecology, fish biodiversity, monitoring of fish populations, and invasive fish species. He works on the structure of fish communities in different aquatic basins in Romania, and for more than 20 years, he was the project manager for many research projects in this field. He has over 50 published papers on fish ecology, and in the last few years, he has collaborated on different studies of invasive fish species as well as toxicological studies. He is a member of the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) and Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL).