Research Interest

• Electrochemical sensors: potentiometric and voltammetric sensors, miniaturized sensors.
• Analytical applications (extractions and ion selective electrodes) of macrocyclic ligands.
• Determination of contaminants in food, waters, soils and fertilizers.
• Determination of organic pollutants in atmospheric environment .
• Carbon nanostructures and their food and environmental applications.

Scientific referent at Rev. Roum. Chim. from 2005 - scientific secretary of the Chemical Section of Romanian Academy 2004 -2006 - member in the editorial board of Academica – journal of the Romanian Academy from 2004 - member in the editorial board of UPB Sci. Bull., Chem.and Materials Sci.Series, from 1998 - evaluator of the national programmes CEEX (from 2005), CNCSIS(from 2001) and Romanian Academy (from 2007) - member of Medical Research Initiative in South Eastern Europe from 2006 - member of ETP European Nanomedicine platform from 2006 - editor of the volume “Progress in nanoscience and nanotechnologies”, Micro and Nanoengineering series, 2007, 11, Editura Academiei Romane and of the volume „New applications of nanomaterials”, Micro and Nanoengineering series, 2014, 22, Editura Academiei Romane - scientific referent at Mat. Sci. Eng. C (MSEC) (Elsevier) from 2007 - scientific referent at International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (Elsevier), from 2009 - Editor at IJVEE from 2009 (International Journal of Vocational Engineering Education) - Instructor of environmental analytical chemistry at MSU international training courses, from 2010 - member of the Environmental Engineering Commission CNATDCU from 2016 - Co-ordinator of Erasmus bilateral agreements UBP (Romania) – RWTH Aachen (Germany) (2014- 2021) and UPB (Romania)– Tuebingen University(Germany) (2017-2023)