Dr Maria-Iuliana Dascalu is associate professor and vice-dean at the Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages of Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English and French. She has a degree in computer science from Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, and both a master in software project management and a PhD in economic informatics from Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti (ASE), with a thesis on 'E-Assessment in E-learning Platforms, with Applications to Project Management'.