Florentina Maxim is currently working at Institute of Physical Chemistry as Senior Researcher. Florentina's main research fields of interest are: materials science and thermodynamics. Florentina is specialized in hydrothermal methods of synthesis and electron microscopy techniques. Florentina's current work is related to design and development of functional materials using supercritical water as reaction medium. This work is done under the collaboration with group of Prof. Christian Ludwig from Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.