Mihaela Racilă is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Mechanics, University of Craiova. She graduated the Faculty of Mathematics in Craiova in 1995 and Maîtrise de Mathématiques – mention Ingénierie Mathématique at the Jean Monnet University in Saint Etienne, France, in 1994. In 1996 she completed her master's degree in dynamic systems, modeling and variational methods at the University of Craiova. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2005 at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, France. Between 2004 and 2006 she was an ATER (Attaché Temporaire à l'Enseignement et à la Recherche) at the UFC, Besançon, France. She is the author of over 65 scientific articles, 10 books and chapters in scientific books, as well as of 3 university textbooks. She has participated in 8 research projects, in two of them being director and 5 of them are international research projects. She has also been a member of the program committees and a scientific reviewer at various international conferences and a scientific reviewer for journals in the field of Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering. She is a member of the Romanian Mathematical Society, European Women in Mathematics, Société de Mathématiques Appliquées and Society of Automotive Engineers of Romania.