Carmen Socaciu studied Chemistry at Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and is an emeritus professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) Cluj-Napoca. For more than 40 years, she was actively involved in Plant & Food Biochemistry and Biotechnology, coordinating BSc, MSc courses and being PhD supervisor in Biotechnology. She coordinated many International and National Research projects and was honored as Doctor Honoris Causa of the University “Dunărea de Jos” Galati.  She published more than 250 scientific papers in ISI-ranked journals, together with her PhD students (more than 40), who are well-recognized scientists nowadays. Metabolomics represents one of her main research topics with impact on food, nutrition and health and contributed essentially to the creation and endowment of the Institute of Life Sciences in USAMV Cluj-Napoca. Besides her academic activity, she is currently coordinating the private Biodiatech – Research Center on Applied Biotechnologies in Diagnostics and Molecular Therapies. The scientific performance was honored recently, by her nomination for the FEBS – Samuel Pecht award “for the entire activity and essential contributions in the field of molecular biosciences”.