Prof. Dr. Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Robotic Theory at the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest. He received his PhD in 1982 from the Department of Road Vehicles, School of Transportation, Bucharest Polytechnic University. His research areas include industrial design, mechanical design, engine design, mechanical transmission, dynamics, vibration, mechanisms, machines, robots, automobiles, vehicles, aircraft, aerospace, physics, nuclear physics and quantum physics. He is Vice-President of ARoTMM (Bucharest Chapter of the Romanian Association for the Theory of Mechanisms and Machines) and a member of the Board of Directors of IFToMM (International Federation for the Theory of Mechanisms and Machines).