Meet the Volume Editors

Professor Lavinia Cosmina Ardelean, DMD, Ph.D., is a professor and head of the Department of Technology of Materials and Devices in Dental Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania. She has authored/co-authored 16 books, 10 book chapters, and 120 peer-reviewed papers. She is an editorial board member of numerous journals and a member of reviewer/topic boards of Materials, Prosthesis, Metals,

and Polymers, and an academic editor for Scanning. She has guest-edited five special issues in different journals and is an active reviewer, with more than 200 reviews to her credit so far. Her research interest includes most areas of dentistry, with a focus on dental materials/biomaterials, dental alloys, resins, ceramics/bioceramics, CAD/ CAM milling, 3D printing/bioprinting in dentistry, laser welding, scanning, and oral health care.

Professor Laura Cristina Rusu, DMD, Ph.D., is the mother of two lovely boys and a full-time professor and head of the Oral Pathology Department, Faculty of Dental Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania. Her Ph.D. thesis was centered on allergens in dental materials. In 2017 she obtained a Dr. Habil and was confirmed as a Ph.D. coordinator in the field of dental medicine. She took part in 10 research projects,

including FP7 COST Action MP 1005, and authored 140 peer-reviewed papers. She has published eight books and book chapters as an author and co-author. Her main scientific interests are oral pathology and oral diagnosis in dental medicine, with a focus on oral cancer.
