Vasile Tronciu received the bachelor’s degree in physics from the State University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova, in 1990, and the Ph.D. and Dr.hab. degrees in physical and mathematical sciences from the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Science of Moldova, in 1995 and 2013, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Physics, Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau. From 2008 to 2011, he was a Senior Research Associate with the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany. From 2007 to 2008, he visited the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, University of the Balearic Islands Palma de Mallorca, Palma, Spain. From 2001 to 2003, he was with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. Before that, he held a Royal Society/NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Durham, U.K. From 1998 to 1999, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Photonics Group, Institute of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin. During his research career, he has worked on a number of topics, including optical bistability, switching, self-pulsation, excitability, and chaos in various optical devices. In recent years, he has concentrated his attention on the dynamics of semiconductor lasers.