Cornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory.

in Mathematics from the University of Iași, where besides attending the core courses she received extra curricular teaching in geometry and topology from Professor Liliana Răileanu.

[4] She then joined the University of Lille 1 as Maître de conférences (MCF).

She visited the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge as holder of a Simons Fellowship.

[7][8] In 2009, Druțu was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society for her work in geometric group theory.