Prof. Univ. Dr. Laura Rusu

Laura-Cristina Rusu, DMD, PhD, is a full-time professor, Head of Oral Pathology Department at the “Victor Babeş” University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Timisoara, Faculty of Dentistry.

In year 2017 – she obtained the degree of doctor habilitatus and was confirmed as PhD coordinator in the field of dental medicine.

She is a member of several dedicated associations like Romanian Society of Lasers in Dentistry (SRLS), Swiss Society of Biomaterials (SSB), IADR, IEEE, Romanian Society of Biomaterials (SRB) and SPIE. She has been also involved in the organisation committee for several scientific events in 2015-2019 (“Zilele Stomatologice Banatene“ Conference).

Her main scientific accomplishment is focused on oral pathology, oral diagnosis in the dental medicine domain, and new trends in dental treatments with an accent on oral cancer.

She was a member in the research team of 10 projects, in 5 of them as PI and also a member in the working group of the FP7 COST Action MP 1005.

The disemination of the her research was accomplished through 12 published books as author and co-author, four of them being in a prestigious international publishing house and also through the participation at 88 congresses and symposiums.

Her scientific activity is proven in a total number of over 170 papers (from which 146 indexed ISI Web of Science) and four patents. According to Web of Science, her Hirsch index is 17.