Liviu Ornea (born 1960) is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bucharest and a senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow" in the Romanian Academy. His main fields of interest include differential geometry of complex manifolds, with a special focus on locally conformally Kähler manifolds. He is the (co)author of more than 90 published papers and two research monographs. He has visited MPIM Bonn, ICTP Trieste, IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo Institute for Technology, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), Università di Firenze, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", etc.