Doru Bănăduc is an Associate Professor at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu in the Faculty of Sciences, Sibiu, Romania. His teaching activities include courses, laboratories, seminars, and field projects and activities in the fields of ecology, environmental protection, biology, anthropogenic systems and risk assessment; principles of taxonomy and systematic management of biological resources; ecological systems analysis; etc. His research activities include fundamental and applied ichthyology; fish ecology, taxonomy, and systematic aquatic systems assessment, monitoring, and management; ecological monitoring; water; sediment; macroinvertebrates; fish toxicology; etc. He graduated in Ecology from the Ecological University of Bucharest, Bucharest, RO, in 1995. He earned his PhD in Biology at the Bucharest Institute of Biology, Bucharest, RO, in 2003 and finished his post-doctoral research at the Romanian Academy Institute of Economic Research, National Institute Costin C. Kiriţescu, Bucharest, Romania. He is a member of the Romanian Limnological Society, the Romanian Ecological Society, the Romanian Society of Ichthyology, and the Ecotur Sibiu Association.