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ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS

Section OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

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MEMBERS FROM ROMANIA

Name, Surname Membership Function Residence

1. PAVELESCU, Mărgărit Full Member Founding Member

President of the Section Bucharest

2. AVRAM, Nicolae Full Member Timişoara

3. ANTOHE, Ştefan Full Member Bucharest

4. BUCURESCU, Dorel Full Member Bucharest

5. CIUPINĂ, Victor Full Member

Founding Member

Constanta Branch President

Constanţa

6. DELION, Doru-Sabin Full Member Vice President AOSR Bucharest

7. ION, Dumitru Barbu Full Member Bucharest

8. MIHALACHE, Dumitru Full Member Bucharest

9. ONUC, Cozar Full Member Cluj Napoca

10. POPESCU, V. Ion Full Member Bucharest

11. RĂDUŢĂ, Apolodor Aristotel Full Member Bucharest

12. ŞTEFĂNESCU, Eliade Full Member Founding

Member Bucharest

13. FARA, Vladimir Laurentiu Full Member Scientific Secretary of the Section

Bucharest

14. POPESCU, Mihai Honorary Member

Bucharest

15. TUDOR, Tiberiu Honorary Member

Bucharest

16. Acad. VLAD, Valentin Ionel Honorary Member

Bucharest

17. ALEXANDRU, Horia Corresponding Member

Bucharest

18. CIMPOCA, Gheorghe Corresponding Member

Târgovişte

19. CIUREA, Magdalena Lidia Corresponding Member

Bucharest

20. CUCULEANU, Vasile Corresponding Member

Bucharest

21. DRAGOMAN, Daniela Corresponding Member

Bucharest

22. MORARIU, Mircea Corresponding Member

Bucharest

23. AGOP, MARICEL Associate Member

Iaşi

24. URSUŢIU, DORU Associate

Member Braşov

OVERSEAS MEMBERS

Name, Surname Membership Residence

25. ALTSHULER Boris Honorary Member

SUA

26. DOGARIU Arthur Honorary Member

SUA

27. LIOTTA Robert Honorary Member

Suedia

28. MALKA Victor Honorary Franţa



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Member

29. ROCO Mihail Honorary

Member SUA

30. SAGIV Jacob Honorary Member

Israel

31. STURDZA Dimitrie Honorary

Member Elveţia

32. SUHONEN Jouni Honorary Member

Finlanda

33. TIGHINEANU Ion Honorary

Member Rep. Moldova

MEMBERS FROM ROMANIA:

PAVELESCU, MĂRGĂRIT

President of the section, Founding Full Member

Professor, Ph.D. physicist, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics

Areas of expertise: Theory of nuclear reactors, approximation of neutron

transport, diffusion approximation, numerical methods, optimisation models -

game theory, linear and nonlinear programming, PC programming, fuel cycles,

analysis of nuclear energy systems, neutron physics, radioactivity protection in

energy systems, monitoring and assessment of occupational exposure, storage

analysis of low and intermediate waste and final storage of burned fuel.

ANTOHE, ŞTEFAN

Associate Member

Professor, Ph.D., University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics.

Areas of expertise: Electricity and magnetism; solid state physics; production

and structural, electrical and optical characterisation of thin films; organic

semiconductors; A2-B6 compounds, physical processes at the metal /

semiconductor interface; transport phenomena of charge carriers in

semiconductors; interaction of electromagnetic radiation with semiconductors;

non-destructive techniques of spectroscopic investigation of defects in

semiconductor crystalline, polycrystalline, amorphous, nanocrystalline

materials; electronic devices; nanostructured materials and electronic and

optoelectronic devices at nanometric scale.



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AVRAM, NICOLAE

Full Member

Professor, Ph.D., West University of Timişoara

Areas of expertise: Physics of the atom and molecule, quantum optics;

condensed state spectroscopy; vibronic interactions in laser crystals.

BUCURESCU, DOREL

Membru Titular

Full Member

Senior Researcher, Ph.D., “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and

Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest; Affiliate Professor at the Faculty of Physics,

University of Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: Experimental nuclear spectroscopy: gamma spectroscopy in

reactions induced by heavy ions (high spin state physics, structure of nuclei far

from stability); study of nuclear structure through light particle transfer

reactions; statistical nuclear properties (densities of levels, spin distribution);

systematic of nuclear structure observables.

CIUPINĂ, VICTOR

President of AOSR CONSTANŢA branch

Founding Full Member

Professor, Ph.D., physician.

Areas of expertise: Parameter measurements of electrical conduction in

semiconductors (especially in high mobility semiconductors); obtaining

nanostructured materials and structure studies of such materials; electronic

microscopy; determination of heavy metals through atomic resolution

spectrometry.



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COZAR, ONUC

Corresponding Member

Senior researcher, Biomedical and Environment Physics Research Centre,

Professor, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Physics, “Babeş-Bolyai” University.

Areas of expertise: structure and molecular dynamics studies, interaction of

metal ions with molecules of biomedical interest (drugs, amino acids,

nucleotides), solvent effects and molecular association mechanisms, nitroxide

radicals, products of irradiation in various biomolecules - their kinetics,

estimation of molecular structure and properties after theoretical modelling,

coupled paramagnetic systems (dimers, trimers, etc.), local structure and

interaction between paramagnetic ions in oxidic matrices, applications of

physical methods in medical diagnosis and treatment, environment physics.

DELION, DORU-SABIN

Scientific Secretary of AOSR, Full Member

Senior Researcher, Ph.D., Engineer, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute

for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest; Affiliate Professor at

the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Ph.D. coordinator.

Areas of expertise: theoretical physics: nuclear structure (magnetic

states, quasi-molecular states, multiphononic states, nuclear matter);

radioactive decays (alpha, beta and double beta decay, proton

emission, emission of clusters, cold fission); “many-body” methods.

FARA, VALDIMIR LAURENŢIU

Full Member

Professor, Ph.D., Chair of Physics II, Faculty of Applied Sciences,

Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: thermal conversion of solar energy; photovoltaic

conversion of solar energy, researches in the field nanostructured solar

cells.



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ION, B. DUMITRU

Full Member

Professor, Ph.D., Senior researcher.

Areas of expertise: Research in elementary particle physics based on the

principle of minimum distance in quantum state space; excellence researches

in the physics of nuclear and subnuclear particle decay; exploratory research in

the physics of nuclear and subnuclear Super-Cerenkov decay.

MIHALACHE, DUMITRU

Full Member

Senior Researcher, Ph.D., “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and

Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest; Professor at the Faculty of Physics, University

of Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: theory of surface waves in nonlinear optical media; theory

of surface optical solitons; theory of surface optical polaritons and surface

plasmons in systems containing nanostructurated noble metals; theory of

temporal solitons in optical fibres; theory of “walking” spatial and

spatiotemporal solitons in optical media with quadratic nonlinearities; theory

of nonzero load topological solitons (vortex-type solitons) that can form both

in conservative systems and dissipative systems with applications in optics and

Bose-Einstein condensate; theory of surface spatiotemporal solitons in

photonic lattices; theory of Ginzburg-Landau multidimensional dissipative

solitons.

POPESCU, V. ION

Full Member

Professor, Ph.D., Department of Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Arts,

“Valahia” University Târgovişte [UVT] and Director of the Institute of

Multidisciplinary Scientific and Technological Research [ICSTMUVT].

Areas of expertise: fundamental and applied research of atomic and nuclear

physics; nuclear structure, atomic ion-atom and ion-surface interactions and

applications of spectrometric atomic and nuclear techniques and applications

in biology, archaeology, metallurgy, environment.



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RĂDUŢĂ APOLODOR-ARISTOTEL

Full Member

Professor, Ph.D., Chair of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Faculty of

Physics, University of Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: Microscopic study of quadrupolar octopolar collective

motion; explicit dependence on gamma deformation of own functions of the

Bohr-Mottelson Hamiltonian; coherent state model (CSM) for three interacting

bands; a new bosonic development for quasi-spin algebra; the generalized

coherent states model (GCSM); a new layered model; possibility of occurrence

of density isomers in finite nuclei; calculus of double beta decay rate in bosonic

developments formalism; classical origin of many body formalisms, BCS, RPA,

bosonic developments; semi-microscopic description of the alpha clustering

phenomenon in heavy nuclei; spin excitations in finite nuclei;

phenomenological study of octopolar static deformation nuclei; regular and

chaotic behaviour of quadrupolar bosonic Hamiltonians; complete

renormalisation of pnQRPA equations; a new description method of deformed

metal clusters; new phenomena in nucleonic systems with neutron proton

pairing interaction; Dirac quantification of constrained systems; phase

transitions in finite nuclei; monopolar properties of charge density and E0

transitions.

ŞTEFĂNESCU, ELIADE

Full Member

Senior Researcher, Ph.D., Engineer, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for

Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: flaw detection with radioactive isotopes; dynamic

characterisation of electronic components: high frequency, fast switching, high

power, low noise, automatic control; measuring instruments and

characterisation of thyristors; physics of open quantum systems with

applications in nuclear physics and quantum optics.



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POPESCU, MIHAI

Honorary Member

Affiliate Professor and Ph.D. coordinator, at the Faculty of Physics,

University of Bucharest. Chief Editor of Journal of Optoelectronics and

Advanced Materials, the journal with the highest ISI index (2.08) of

Romania.

Areas of expertise: Structure and properties of amorphous glassy

chalcogenide materials; nonmaterial modelling and low dimension;

Langmuir-Blodgett films (The molecules studied have special properties

as regards their behaviour in the water-air interface and / or

electrochemical, its behaviour as derived from tetrathiafulvalene (TTF),

derived from phosphorus, a derivative of bipyridine dibromide

(viologen), tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ ), azobenzene and

azopolymers, and aromatic compounds for application to obtain

information on molecular interactions, organic conductors and

semiconductors, molecular sensors, nonlinear optics, molecular fibres).

TUDOR, TIBERIU

Honorary Member

Professor, Ph.D., head of the Chair of Optics-Spectroscopy Plasma-Lasers,

Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest; Director of the Centre of

development and Research for Photonics-Spectroscopy-Plasma-Lasers of the

Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: Classical and quantum optics: modulation of the light,

optical transmission of information, modification of the spectral structure of

light through modulation; lasers, propagation of coherent light beams in free

space; optical fibres and linear optical systems; coherence and polarisation of

light; optical processing of information, holography and its applications in the

detection of nuclear particles.



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ACADEMICIAN VLAD, IONEL-VALENTIN

Honorary Member

Academician. President of the Romanian Academy. Professor, Ph.D., head of

the Nonlinear and Informational Optics Laboratory, National Institute for

Lasers, Plasma and Radiation, Lasers Department; Affiliate Professor,

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics.

Areas of expertise: holography, optical processing of information, nonlinear

optics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, laser measuring instruments.

ALEXANDRU, HORIA


Professor, Ph.D., Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest

Areas of expertise: Study of crystal growth mechanisms of fluid phase;

ferroelectric materials. Set-up and endowment of a laboratory for crystal

growth from solutions; growth and kinetic measurements of crystals from

solutions (KDP, ADP, TGS, LiIO3); technique and crystal growth from melt;

studies of crystal growth mechanism from solutions; estimation of kinetic and

thermodynamic parameters (dislocation efficiency, impurities coverage effect,

activation energies of growth, etc.); nonlinear optical crystals, growth and

characterisation; pure and doped ferroelectric crystals for IR detection, growth

and characterisation; phase transition in single-crystal and ferroelectric

ceramics.

CIMPOCA, GHEORGHE-VALERICĂ


Professor, PhD., “Valahia” University of Târgovişte, Faculty of Sciences, Chair of

Physics.

Technical Director of the Institute of Multidisciplinary Scientific and

Technological Research of “Valahia” University of Târgovişte.Areas of

expertise: Monocrystalline silicon study and crystal increase through CZ and FZ

structures of small and medium power transistors, of low frequency of

monocrystalline silicon; linear integrated circuit structures of monocrystalline

silicon; CVD epitaxial growth on monocrystalline silicon; hyper abrupt junction

for varicap diode of monocrystalline silicon; photovoltaic (solar) cells of

monocrystalline silicon on large areas and with high conversion efficiency;

infrared emission components in GaAs; monocrystalline silicon detection



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components; growths; AlGaAs/GaAs laser diodes with pulsed and continuous

operation; monocrystalline silicon strips and microstrips for High Energy

Physics strips; micro and nanomaterials; micro and nanotechnologies.

CIUREA, MAGDALENA-LIDIA


Senior researcher, National R & D Institute for Materials Physics; Ph.D.

coordinator, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: nanoscience (Ge, Si and GESI based nanostructures:

properties and electrical transport mechanisms and phototransport correlated

with structure and morphology) and nanotechnology (applications in non-

volatile memories and photodetectors based on the said nanostructures);

capture processes in monocrystalline Si irradiated with heavy ions and

multilayer nanostructures based on Si: influence of stress on the parameters of

capture centres.

CUCULEANU, VASILE

CUCULEANU, VASILE


Physicist, Senior researcher, Affiliate Professor at the University of Bucharest,

Faculty of Physics

Areas of expertise: Physics of the atmosphere and geo-radioactivity; climate

change and its impact on terrestrial ecosystems; Study of the dynamics of time

series of geophysical data using complexity theory elements – deterministic

chaos; nuclear reactors physics.



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DRAGOMAN, DANIELA


Professor, Ph.D., Doctoral School of Physics – Faculty of Physics, University of

Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: phase space characterization of optical beams and

systems, and of quantum phenomena • classical and quantum coherence •

modelling of quantum tunnelling devices • foundations of quantum mechanics

• physics and applications of nanostructures

MORARIU, MIRCEA


Senior Researcher, Ph.D., Engineer, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for

Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest.

Areas of expertise: Magnetic studies of catalysts for heavy water-hydrogen

isotopic exchange; electronic transfers between FeII and FeII in mixed valence

compounds and other chemical applications using Mössbauer spectrometry;

magnetic hyperfine interactions in rare earth-iron intermetallic compounds,

studies of synthetic diamond crystals using Mössbauer spectrometry.

MARICEL AGOP

Associate Member

Professor PhD Technical University (ITU) Gh. Asachi Iaşi

Areas of scientific expertise: Teaching and research activities, courses of physics (quantum and classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, laser physics, elementary particles, chaos and non-linearity) at: - Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering - Hydro Engineering Faculty, Geodesy and Environment - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, "Gheorghe Asachi" University laşi, Romania.



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DORU URSUTIU

Associate Member

Professor PhD

"Transilvania" University of Braşov

Doru Ursutiu is the manager of the Centre for Recovery and Transfer of Competences CVTC of "Transilvania" University of Brasov and director of the Laboratory of Creativity [CVTC].

Areas of scientific expertise: Physics, electronics (PhD in noise and fluctuations of electronic systems and devices), graphical programming, virtual instrumentation and remote control engineering. He is a member of the Executive Committee of „Central European Chapter of Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)” and President of the International Association of IAOE Remote Control Engineering, member of the Scientific Committee and reviewer for several scientific international conferences and publications (ICL, IMCL, EURODL, Iie-Abarim, IJ-SoTL, etc.). He is specialized in Open and Distance Learning (LOLA course at - Hariot Watt University in the UK) and noise in electronic systems.



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OVERSEAS MEMBERS

ALTSHULER, BORIS

Honorary Member

Princeton, New Jersey, SUA

Professor, physicist, researcher, Ph.D., Leningrad Institute for Nuclear Physics; Professor

of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Columbia

University.

Areas of expertise: condensed matter physics of electrons in metals, semiconductors

and superconductors, quantum transport in disordered systems, quantum nanodevices,

quantum chaos.

DOGARIU, ARTHUR

Honorary Member

Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Research scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University, physicist,

researcher, Ph.D., School of Optics, University of Central Florida.

Area of expertise: experimental optical physics in the areas of

nonlinear and ultrafast optics, biomedical optics, biosensors,

remote detection techniques, plasma dynamics, photo-physics of

organic materials and devices, ultrafast spectroscopy, nano-

optics, quantum optics, wave propagation in dispersive media.



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LIOTTA, ROBERTO JUAN

Honorary Member

Stockholm, SUEDIA

Professor, physicist, Ph.D. Physics Department of Universidad Nacional De

Rosario (UNR), Argentina; Cofounder of the Physics School of (UNR); researcher

at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, Institute of Physics Research La

Manne Siegbahn, Stockholm, Royal Institute of Technology; Member of the

National Research Council. Project assessor.

Areas of expertise: Nuclear physics, research grant projects for NATO Research

Programme; research for the US Department of Energy (DOE), for CONICET.

Structure of Alfa atomic nuclei and properties of decay of heavy nuclei group,

continuum effects in nuclei.

MALKA, VICTOR

Honorary Member

Paris, FRANȚA

Research Director of LOA, Ecole Polytechnique – ENSTA - CNRS, Palaiseau,

France; Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (din 2003), member of the

Commission for International Evaluation of Centres of Excellence in Germany,

President of the Editorial Board of JIPLAAP since 2011 (Journal of Intense

Pulsed Lasers and Their Applications in Advanced Physics); Professor, physicist,

Ph.D.

Areas of expertise: plasma, relativist physics, laser-plasma interaction, plasma

accelerators, particles and X-rays with bar, ultrafast phenomena, radiotherapy,

radiobiology, materials science, inertial fusion.



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ROCO, MIHAIL

Honorary Member

Washington, D.C., USA

National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA;

Professor, Ph.D. physicist.

Areas of expertise: multi-phase flow, particle technology, laser measurements,

numerical methods for nonlinear phenomena, nanoscale science and

engineering, emerging and converging technologies, science policy.

SAGIV, JACOB

Honorary Member

ISRAEL

Scientist, senior researcher, Affiliate Professor, physicist, Ph.D., Weizmann

Institute, Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D.

in philosophy, Weizmann Institute.Areas of expertise: Basic studies on the

structure and properties of self-assembly monolayers and multilayer, use of

organic monolayers organised as templates for the control of 3D crystal

growth, contributions in the field of modern science – development of self-

assembly method of ordered arrays of molecules on surfaces, invention of

constructive nanolithography (CNL) - combining self-assembly techniques with

non-destructive electrochemical monolayer structure using an AFM tip.

STURDZA, DIMITRIE

Honorary Member

SWITZRLAND

He is a successful businessman, the descendant of a noble family and the only

Romanian present in the top of Swiss businessmen. He graduated Ecole

Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Department of Atomic

Physics.



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SUHONEN, JOUNI

Honorary Member

Jyväskylä, FINLAND

Professor, physicist, Ph.D., at Jyväskylä University, Finland, Department of

Physics.

Areas of expertise: Nuclear structures, theoretic nuclear physics, development

of models of schematic and realistic nuclear structures, and their applications

in nuclear spectroscopy and nuclear degradation processes - alpha and beta

decay - muon-capture, double beta decay and weak exotic decompositions,

mechanics, quantum mechanics, nuclear structure, nuclear decay.

TIGHINEANU, ION

Honorary Member

Kishinev, Republic of MOLDOVA

Professor, physicist, Ph.D. in physico-mathematical sciences, Corresponding

Member of the Assembly of AŞM and of the Supreme Council for Development

and Technological Science, vice-rector for International Relations at the

Technical University of Moldova.

Areas of expertise: Nanotechnologies, nanomaterials and biocompatible

materials, compounds, hard radiation materials, thin nanostructured

membranes, semiconductor-metal ordered, networks, metamaterials, photonic

crystals, negative refraction index materials, nanomaterials, lasers and

photovoltaic applications), micro- and nanostructuring of semiconductors for

the development of photonic crystals, waveguides, beam splitters, focusing

elements, sensors, etc; nanocomposites, spectroscopy, surface charge

lithography, maskless lithography, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force

microscopy, THz spectroscopy, solid state physics.

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