Prof. Dr. Titus Vlase is a Professor at the Research Centre for Thermal Analysis in Environmental Problems, West University of Timişoara. He also works at the Institute for Advanced Environmental Research, West University of Timişoara (ICAM–WUT), Timişoara, Romania. He studied Materials Chemistry major at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara in 1985–1990, and Physical Chemistry major at the West University of Timisoara in 1996–2003. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Award for chemistry “Ghoerghe Spacu” in December 2005. He has 220 publications with more than 2000 citations and an h-index of 26 (12 March 2024). His current research interests mainly include drug delivery systems, ancient artifact studies, interactions between active substances and drug delivery systems, composites, reaction kinetics, material characterization, heterogeneous catalysis, and spectroscopy.