Claudia Martis was born in 1967 in Macin, Romania. She started her university studies in 1985 at the Polytechnic Institute in Cluj-Napoca and she graduated Electrical Engineering in 1990. After three years working as engineer at SINTEROM SA Cluj-Napoca, she joined the Chair of Electrical Machines, Marketing and Management, at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, first as associated assistant and, since 1996, as full-time teaching and research assistant. In 1994 she enrolled also as PhD student at the same Chair, under the coordination of professor Karoly-Agoston Biro. She graduated in 2001 after the public defense of the PhD thesis entitled: “Contributions to the study of doubly-salient permanent magnet reluctance machines”. Currently she is full professor at the Department of Electrical Machines and Drives, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.