Gabriel Ciobanu is a researcher at the Romanian Academy of Sciences (Iasi branch) and at A.I. Cuza University of Iasi. His research articles are in mathematics, logic, semantics, distributed systems and natural computing (membrane systems). For his scientific contributions, he received awards from the Romanian Academy (2000, 2004 and 2013), Ad Astra Association (2018) and International Membrane Computer Society (2019). He is the editor-in-chief of the Scientific Annals of Computer Science, and a member of Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe).