Ioana Ionel is a professor in the field of mechanical engineering at the Politehnica University of Timisoara, specializing in environmental protection and the management of clean technologies, with strong economic and applicable perspectives. She supervises PhD candidates and mentors early-career researchers from different countries. She has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in Germany and Austria, and she is a fellow of the outstanding Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, having conducted research at Technical University of Munich, where she also obtained her habilitation in air quality (environmental protection). She leads an accredited laboratory and is dedicated to guiding and supporting students in highly relevant fields, especially clean energy and its applications and implications. Personal data available on Scopus Author ID: 6602334631, ResearcherID: G-1021-2016, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2999-1210. She has published over 36 monographies and student books (in Romanian, German, or English) and more than 300 articles (approx.160 WOS articles), has coordinated more than 450 national and international founded research projects, and is coauthor of 10 patents. She also organized several traditional technical conferences in her position as a Humboldt fellow and an AGIR, VDI, and ARA member. She is a reviewer for several international journals, as well for programs of the EC.