**About the Editors**

#### **Costica Bejinariu**

Professor Ph.D. Eng. Costica Bejinariu is a full professor and researcher at the "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania, with over 35 years of academic experience. He has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering and doctoral supervisor since 2009, with five completed doctoral theses and 10 ongoing doctoral students. His main field of expertise is materials engineering. He has published a total of 25 books, chapters, and monographs, over 250 research papers with more than 1000 citations, and an H index of 19-WoS/21-Scopus. He worked on over 50 contracts for scientific research and development, for five of which he was project director and for two of which he was responsible. Furthermore, he owns 12 invention patents in the field of materials engineering, which were presented at numerous invention salons and won medals. He is an active member of professional associations in the field, a reviewer for scientific journals, and a member of scientific committees at different congresses. He is a member of the Committee of Materials Engineering, Domain Engineering, and Materials Science of the National Council for Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas, and Certificates (CNATDCU), which is an independent consulting entity at a national level in Romania.

#### **Nicanor Cimpoesu**

Prof. habil. phd. eng. Nicanor Cimpoesu has 18 years of experience in the research and development of materials, including non-ferrous and ferrous materials and shape memory alloys (SMAs), including five national research projects as coordinator. He has published 155 ISI-indexed articles and proceedings papers and has an H-index of 17. He is part of a team with 18 years of experience in the study of SMAs, 15 years of electron microscopy and EDS/EBSD analysis, and 8 years in the biodegradable metallic materials field.
