She received a BS in Chemical Engineering, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania. She worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Krzysztof Matyjaszewski’s and Richard McCullough’s research groups at Carnegie Mellon University. She joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas in August 2007. Since 2007 she has attracted 9 graduate students, 31 undergraduate students, and 3 summer high school student into her research lab. Currently, 6 graduate students and 6 undergraduate students are working in her lab. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers out of which 19 were published after joining UTD.