Dr. Mihaela Niculae is a lecturer at University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. She graduated Veterinary Medicine Faculty (2005), and she obtained Master degree in “Animal Pathology and Public Health” (2007), Ph.D. degree in Medical Sciences (Veterinary Medicine) (2011) with the topic: „ Assessment of the bioavailability of some immunomodulatory and / or antimicrobial herbal extracts for the therapy of canine otitis externa”, and Postdoctoral research degree (2015) at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

She is Reviewer for: Journal of Central European Agriculture, International Journal of Ecology and Ecosolution, Journal of Agriculture Research, World Journal of Microbiology, Microbiology Research Journal International, Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca.  She is Member of European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Association for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Southeast European Countries, L'Association pour l'Étude de l'Épidémiologie des Maladies Animales, Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research. She has published 17 research articles in international high impact journals and 2 chapters in international books.

·         Zoonosis, herbal medicine.

·         Medicinal plants.

·         Antimicrobial efficacy of natural products.

·         In vitro cytotoxicity.

·         Infectious diseases.

·         Antimicrobial resistance.