Personal

Biographical data

  • Born on August 13, 1968 in Hîrlău, Romania.

    • Language skills

  • English (excellent level), French (medium), German (improving), Romanian (mother tongue).

    • Studies

  • National College, Iaşi, graduated in 1986
  • “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, Faculty of Physics, graduated in 1992, with an average grade 9.94 from 10.
  • “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, Faculty of Chemistry, graduated in 1996, with an average grade 9.85 from 10.

    • Academic record

  • 1993-1996: Research Assistant, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania;
  • 1996-1998: Assistant Professor;
  • 1998-2004: Lecturer;
  • 1998-2000: Roman Herzog Fellow (The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and Fellow of the Romanian Government at the Institute of Physical and Applied Chemistry (IAPC), University of Bremen (16 months).
  • 2000: Ph. D. degree in Chemistry, with the thesis “Nonlinearity and Self-Organization in Far From Equilibrium Chemical Systems” , defended with the mention “Very well”.
  • 2001-2003: Postdoctoral Humboldt Fellow (14 months) at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin and employee (3 months) of the Faculty of Physics, Technical University München.
  • since 2004: Associate professor, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Al. I. Cuza University.
  • 2005: Humboldt Fellow (3 months) at the Faculty of Physics, Technical University München.
  • 2006: Visiting scientist (1 month) at the Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
  • 2008: Humboldt Fellow (3 months) at the Faculty of Physics, Technical University München. 
  • 2009: Visiting scientist (2 months) at the Faculty of Physics, Technical University München. 

    • Scientific activity

  • Research grants: 2 international, 7 national (two as director);
  • Papers: 11 in mainstream international journals, 12 in Romanian ISI-indexed journals, 6 in international or national journals without ISI index.
  • Published books: 2;
  • Citations: 55 in mainstream journals, 3 in international monographs;
  • Presentations at international or national conferences: 38.

    • Membership in professional associations

  • Member of the Romanian Society of Chemistry;
  • Expert for the Romanian Register of Experts, Chemistry.

    • Other activities

  • 2004: Return fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

    • Long term scientific cooperation with

  • Prof. Nils I. Jaeger , University of Bremen, Germany
  • Prof. Katharina Krischer, Technical University of München, Germany
  • Prof. Vilmos Gáspár , Department of Chemistry University of Debrecen, Hungary
  • Dr. Ioana Bena, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland