Ion Vasile Vancea received his/her PhD in Physics from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania in 1998. He did postdocs at University of São Paulo, Brazil, Institute of Theoretical Physics of State University of São Paulo, Brazil, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He worked at Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, as Lecturer and Institute of Isotopic and Molecular Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as Researcher. He visited Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF) Brazil. He is member of the Department of Theoretical Physics of Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2020. His research topics mainly include: Classical and Quantum Field Theory; String Theory; General Gravity; Mathematical Physics; Particle Physics.