Florina Dranca, Food Engineer, Lecturer at Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, PhD in Food Products Engineering (since 2020). Areas of expertise: food science and pectin extraction; characterization; biodegradable films formulation; honey authentication and adulteration detection; analysis of bee products (honey, bee bread, pollen and propolis); and development and validation of analytical methods. Experience in analytical instrumentation, food chemistry, and statistical analysis (response surface methodology, principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis) and the use of different methods for food characterization (FT-IR, DSC, HPLC, SEM etc.). ►16 papers published in WoS indexed journals – 8 Q1 articles and 4 Q2 articles; ►4 articles in International Data Bases journals; ►6 communications at national and international conferences; ►3 projects as researcher. Hirsch factor: 8/8/10 (WoS/Scopus/ Google Scholar),https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ro&user=linLEQcAAAAJ