**About the Editor**

### **Alina Barbulescu**

Alina Barbulescu is a Full Professor at the Transilvania University of Bras ˘ , ov, Department of Civil Engineering. She graduated from the University of Craiova (Romania), Faculty of Mathematics, and from the Petre Andrei University of Ias, i (Romania), Faculty of Law. After a MSc in Mathematics at Bucharest University (Romania), she obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi (Romania), a Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Economic Statistics from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest (Romania), and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, with Magna cum Laude, at the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest (Romania). She obtained her habilitation in Civil Engineering in 2014, with the thesis "Modeling the spatially distributed precipitations, and in Cybernetics and Economics Statistics" in 2019, with the thesis "Contribution to statistical analysis and modeling in economics and finance."

Before her current position, she taught at the Ovidius University of Constant,a, Romania, Higher Colleges of Technology, U.A.E, and was a visiting professor at Abu Dhabi University. Her research interests span applied statistics, econometrics, hydrological modeling, water, and air pollution. She has authored over 200 articles, 30 books, and book chapters, was a coeditor of 20 Special Issues of scientific journals and conference proceedings and presented invited lectures at international conferences. She is a member of IAHS, IAENG, and SSMR and a topic editor at different journals, including "Water" and "Atmosphere".
