Elena Cristina Rada graduated in Environmental Engineering in 2002 from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (energy and economics specialisation). Since 2005, she received three PhD titles from Italian and Romanian universities: a PhD in Environmental Engineering, a PhD in Energy Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering and Management. In 2013, she obtained the Italian National Qualification to function as Associate Professor in the sector of Environmental and Sanitary engineering, confirmed in 2018 and valid until 2027. In 2023, she obtained the Italian National Qualification to function as Full Professor in the same sector, valid until 2034. In 2016, she received the Eminent Scientist Medal from the Wessex Institute of Technology. A member of tens of scientific committees of international conferences, she is author or co-author of more than 300 articles in conferences and journals (more than 230 articles are indexed in the SCOPUS® database, giving an H index = 37). She is the editor of many Special Issues in international journals with high and medium impact factor from Elsevier and MDPI. Presently, she is senior researcher in the University of Insubria, Italy. Recently she was ranked in the top 2% scientists list of the World Ranking published by Stanford University (the last four years).