Cecilia Cristea
Professor in Analytical Chemistry, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Biography
Prof. Cristea is the Director of the Drugs Bioanalysis and Nanotechnologies Research Center – BioNanoMed. The Research center is using an interdisciplinary approach to identify and analyze drugs, metabolites, biomarkers, drugs of abuse, and pathogen bacteria from biological fluids, and environmental and food samples. In this regard, different analytical and physical techniques are used. After graduating from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Babes Bolyai University, she also graduates from the Faculty of Pharmacy from “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry at the Rennes 1 University, France, and Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Professor Cristea is a member of the Scientific Council of the Bioelectrochemical Society (BES) and Associate Editor of the Microchemical Journal. Her research interests are in the development and implementation of advanced molecular materials for electrochemical sensing devices for biologically relevant molecules and the design of new (bio)sensors and biomimetic approaches for biomedical applications, pharmaceutical, food, and environmental analysis. The selection of aptamers for biosensing purposes but also for targeted drug delivery is a new research direction of her interest.