Simona Badilescu is a senior scientist with a background in physical chemistry and a rich experience in teaching and research. She received her PhD from the University of Bucharest (Romania) and specialized in molecular spectroscopy, surface science, and analytical applications of infrared spectroscopy in an industrial environment. After three years of teaching in Algeria as an associate professor at the University of Blida, she joined the Spectroscopy Laboratory of the Université de Montréal in Canada, and later on, a multidisciplinary research group at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick. Since 2006, she has been part of the Optical-Bio Microsystems Lab at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interest is focused on nanomaterials, plasmonic sensing, interaction of nanoparticles with cells, Indian traditional medicines, etc. Badilescu is the author of several books and book chapters and almost 300 articles and conference papers