Cristina Ioana Muntean is a Senior Researcher at the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo” (ISTI-CNR) in Pisa, Italy, where she works within the High Performance Computing (HPC) Lab focusing on Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and related applications. Cristina contributed extensively to research on information retrieval models focusing on the intersection of efficient data processing, intelligent search models, and conversational systems. Her contributions include work on efficiency, caching, and query performance prediction in conversational search settings. Cristina is an active participant in leading information retrieval research communities. She has published extensively in venues such as SIGIR, ECIR, CIKM, and ACM Transactions, and is actively involved in the IR research community through program committee service. She has served in organizational roles for workshops focused on mixed-initiative conversational systems and reproducibility studies in IR.