**Irina Cristea**

Irina Cristea is an associate professor in Mathematics and head of the Centre for Information Technologies and Applied Mathematics at the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She is conducting research in Hypercompositional Algebra, having published more than 70 articles indexed by WoS and Scopus, one book in Springer and two edited books for MDPI. In addition, Dr. Cristea has served as a reviewer for more than 60 international journals and currently is chief editor of the Italian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, associated editor for Heliyon Mathematics, Elsevier, and member of the editorial board of Mathematics, MDPI, and seven other international journals. She is a guest editor of several Special Issues related to algebraic structures and graph theory.
