Prof. Rares Ionut Stiufiuc is a Full Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmacy, UMF Cluj. He received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Physics/Pharmaceutical Sciences from Babes-Bolyai University/University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, and his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics Physics from UBB Cluj. During his thesis he was a Marie Curie Ph.D fellow at Universite Paris Sud XI, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France. He performed research activities in the field of Nanotehnology as a PostDoctoral Research Associate at Institute d'Electronique, Microelectronique et Nanotehnologie (IEMN), Villneuve d'Ascq, France. He worked as a Coordinator of the Department of NanoBioPhysics within the MedFUTURE Research Institute, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He obtained his Habilitation Degree in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences, at UMF Cluj. His research topics mainly include nanomedicine, ultrasensitive vibrational Raman/SERS analysis of biofluids, development of multifunctional hybrid nanostructures (magnetic, plasmonic, magneto-plasmonic, lipidic, etc.) for different biomedical applications.