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, 13 book chapters, and more than 120 peer-reviewed papers. She is an editorial board member of numerous journals and a member of reviewer/topic boards of the journals

*Materials*, *Prosthesis*, *Metals*, and *Polymers*. She has guest-edited eight special issues in different journals and four books. She is also involved in an ongoing book editing project. Dr. Ardelean is an active reviewer with more than 200 reviews to her credit who was recognized as a top reviewer in "cross-field" and "materials science" in 2019. She currently holds two patents. Her research interests include 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 Ph.D. coordinator in the field of dental medicine. She took part in 10 research projects,

including FP7 COST Action MP 1005, and authored more than 140 peer-reviewed papers. She has published ten books and book chapters as author and co-author. She has guest-edited four special issues in different journals and edited or co-edited four books. She is also involved in an ongoing book editing project. She currently holds three patents. Dr. Rusu is a member of the editorial board of the *Journal of Science and Art* and *Medicine in Evolution*. She is a topic editor for the journal *Materials*. Her main scientific interests are oral pathology and oral diagnosis in dental medicine, focusing on oral cancer.

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