Liliana CepoiDr. Liliana Cepoi serves as the Director of The Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Technical University of Moldova. Her expertise lies in the field of biotechnology, specifically focusing on microalgae and cyanobacteria. Her primary rsearch interest centers around oxidative stress and its potential applications in biotechnology, particularly in remediation techniques for water contaminated with heavy metals. Dr. Cepoi’s work involves studying the bioaccumulation of pollutants through iterative processes utilizing cyanobacteria from the Arthrospira and Nostoc genera. She has authored 15 chapters in books published by prestigious scientific publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wales and has coedited a book on the bioremediation of contaminated water. Additionally, Dr. Cepoi has contributed as an author and coauthor to numerous articles in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. She holds more than 30 invention patents, which encompass various strains of microorganisms with biotechnological significance, their cultivation processes, and methods for quality control of biomass. Furthermore, she actively supervises doctoral students in the fields of biotechnology and ecology Read More Read Less