Clara Mihaela Ionescu is professor at Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, at Ghent University, Belgium since October 2016. She is a research-member of the laboratory of Dynamical Systems and Control. She holds a master degree is Automation and Applied Informatics in 2003 from Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania, and a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Ghent University in 2009. She was recipient of prestigious excellence scholarship for top-students going abroad from the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation during her master Studies at Ghent University in 2002. She was also recipient of prestigious excellent post-doctoral scholarship of Flemish Research Foundation, of Belgium for 6 years, from 2011 - 2017. She is an ERC Consolidator Grant fellow: AMICAS, Adaptive Multi-Drug Infusion Control System for General Anesthesia during Major Surgery. She is member of several valorization and innovation platforms in Belgium: Flanders Make, Centre for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Engineering, etc. She has more than 100 scientific publications in Web of Science with h-index of 30, and equal number of indexed conference proceedings. She is a IFAC TC member of TC 2.1, 6.4, 8.2, all involving modelling, identification and control of chemical, biological, medical processes. She is appointed during 2021-2024 as associate editor of all technically sponsored IEEE Control System Society conferences. She organized two IFAC conferences: Advances in PID control in 2018 and Biology and Medical Systems in 2021. Her research interests include fractional order systems modelling and control, predictive control and related multi-objective optimization algorithms. Application areas are prevalent in biomedical systems, chemical and manufacturing processes.