Dana Ortansa Dorohoi Editor

Dana Ortansa Dorohoi is Professor Emeritus at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Faculty of Physics. She obtained her PhD in Physics in 1978 and gained the academic title of Professor in Department of Optics and Spectroscopy at the same university in 1998. Subsequently she worked on her habilitation and to-date has supervised around 25 PhD theses. In 2012, she was awarded with the title of Professor Emeritus of the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University. In parallel with her didactic activities she conducted scientific research on various topics, including liquid crystals, simple liquids, optics of crystals and liquid crystals, intermolecular interactions in solutions, and electro-optical parameters of the molecules. Professor Dorohoi’s scientific contributions developed over 43 years include interdisciplinary research for theoretical and experimental substantiations of the processes occurring in anisotropic media under electromagnetic radiations, thus developing new optical and spectral analysis methods of optical properties of materials in solution or solid state. She has published well over 165 ISI-indexed articles in the fields of physics of liquids and anisotropic media, macromolecular science, photochemistry, and radiation chemistry and is the author of 3 patents, over 10 books or books chapters, and over 35 research projects. Professor Dorohoi is referee for several scientific journals in the area of optics and molecular spectroscopy.

Andreea Irina Barzic has been a scientific researcher in the Department of Physical Chemistry of Polymers at the "Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania, since 2005. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the Romanian Academy, Bucharest in 2009 and her PhD in Physics from the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in 2014. Her major fields of interest include liquid crystals, optics of polymers, and structuring of materials under electromagnetic and shear fields. She has published over 35 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is author of 12 books or book chapters. She is also a member in several research projects and referee for a number of prestigious journals in the fields of physics and material science.

Magdalena Aflori is a scientific researcher at Department of Polymer Materials Physics at "Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Romania. She received her PhD in Physics in 2005 from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University. She has remarkable scientific contributions in plasma physics, X-ray diffraction, small angle x-ray scattering, polymer chemistry, and surface science. Her interdisciplinary research is quantified in more than 65 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 7 books or book chapters, and 1 patent. She is a member in many research projects with national and international funding and referee for a number of international journals with high impact factor.