Nicoleta Nedelcu has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Romanian Academy in 2019. Her doctoral research focused on thin film deposition and surface characterization. She graduated in 2008 from the Faculty of Physics at Ovidius University and, in 2009, graduated with a Master's in condensed matter physics and nanostructure systems. She started to work as a Research Assistant in 2010 at the Institute of Chemistry Physics “Ilie Murgulescu.” In 2011, she worked as an engineer physicist and an optical coating designer for the UV-VIS-NIR-IR spectral range at the OphirOptics brand of NewPort Corporation. She worked from 2017 to 2018 in scientific research to develop national, primary, and reference standards and traceability to SI units at the National Institute of Metrology. She then started, in 2019, to work at the Institute of Solid Mechanics of the Romanian Academy. Nicoleta was awarded in December 2023 with a Romanian Academic Award in the category of Best Physician for the 2021 Henri Coanda prize award. This was awarded for group work; methods and advanced models in analytical techniques; and material characterization with different technological applications. During her career, Dr. Nedelcu published over 20 scientific articles, and this year, her first book, “Thin films—Process and Characterization Techniques”, was published by Springer.