Viorel Ungureanu is Full Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Department of Steel Structures and Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, and Executive Director of the Research Institute for Renewable Energy of the Politehnica University of Timisoara. He is also Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Steel Structures of the Romanian Academy, Timisoara Branch. He is engaged in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and is a PhD. supervisor.

His main research area is in the field of structural engineering with particular expertise in steel structural members and systems, cold-formed steel structures, structural analysis and stability, numerical modelling, and sustainable constructions. He is the chairman of TC14 for Sustainability and Eco-Efficiency of Steel Construction and a member of the technical committees the TC7 for Cold-formed thin-walled sheet steel in buildings of the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS), and is also a member of the Management Committee of the COST CA 20109 action: "Modular energy islands for sustainability and resilience" and the COST C25 action: "Sustainability of Constructions - Integrated Approach to Life-time Structural Engineering".