Mircea Cristian Dudescu graduated as a Fine Mechanics engineer in 1995, received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2001, and finished his habilitation thesis in 2015 at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Currently, he is a full professor in the Mechanics of Materials at the same university. He was granted two post-doctoral research fellowships in Germany: 2001–2003 Marie-Curie Industrial Fellowship at Dantec-Dynamics GmbH in Ulm and 2005–2006 as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Chemnitz University of Technology, Chair of Experimental Mechanics. He coordinates the experimental and computational solid mechanics laboratory at TU. His research activity was in the field of mechanics of materials, optical methods of experimental mechanics, material testing and characterization, finite element simulations and structural analysis, and numerical simulations of microstructures (MEMS).