Marin Monica is a professor in the Faculty of Animal Production Engineering and Management at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, and a Vice Dean with faculty research activity and holds a Ph.D. in the animal production field. Marin's thematic research directions are reflected in Marin's participation as a member, expert, working group coordinator, and lecturer and for bearing responsibility for the research teams of 30 research projects which were won through competition. Marin has been published as the author or co-author of 16 books and articles published in national and international journals or conference proceedings which have been indexed by ISI and can be found in international data bases (158); these publications were aimed at the optimization of nutritional factors to obtain functional foods (eggs, meat, and milk), the optimization of technologies for achieving food safe for human consumption, as well as the application of nutritional technologies for species of animals and birds of zootechnical interest in order to improve productive performance and carcass quality and reduce environmental pollution.