IMT - Key Persons
Catalin Marculescu is an Assistant Researcher in the Micro and Nano-Fluidics Laboratory from the National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies (IMT Bucharest). He has a PhD degree in Fluid Mechanics and Rheology at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Faculty of Power Engineering, Hydraulics Department, Reorom Group, in co-tutelage with University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratory of Multimaterials and Interfaces, with two research stages at the latter institution. Also prior to IMT employment, he was employed as CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Consulting Engineer at a specialized consulting company. His present main duties are phenomenological modeling using the commercial numerical code FLUENT, complex geometry and mesh generation, post-processing data in specialized software, corroborated with experimental studies related to fluid flows in micro-channels. The main tasks as a L10 member are related to the phenomenological modeling and experimental investigations.
Constantina SIMON is an expert accountant, graduate of the Faculty of Economic Sciences - Licence degree (2002) in Finance and banking. She is member of CECCAR since 2008. C. Simon has 20 years experience in the position of Economic Director, 12 of them in research field. She has a high expertise in financial-accounting activity, having as responsibilities: organising, coordinating, financial and accountable analyses, income and spending budget, balance sheet, financial balance, cash flow, financial management, etc.;
Dr. Alexandru Müller is PhD in Physics at Bucharest University in 1990. Habilitation obtained in 2017. His competences includes Silicon, GaAs and GaN microwave devices, micromachining technologies for microwave devices and circuits. His current research activities are focused on SAW devices manufactured on wide band semiconductors and sensors for various physical parameters (temperature, pressure, magnetic field) based on these SAW devices. Dr. Muller is also involved in cryogenic temperature characterization of semiconductor devices including qubit transistors for future applications in quantum computing.
He was the coordinator of two EU projects: FP4 "MEMSWAVE" and FP7 REGPOT "MIMOMEMS". He was the IMT team leader of 1 FP6, 2 FP7 projects, supervisor of a H2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie project and the IMT team leader for two H2020 Future Emerging Technologies (FET) projects, both in the fascinating topic of quantum computing technologies (CHIRON 2018-2021, the first FET project with Romanian participation and i-Qbits). Dr. Muller has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific papers published in journals and presented at conferences, as IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Sensors, Sensor and Actuators, MTT- IMS, Transducers, etc.
Job Titles:
- Director of CINTECH
- President of Scientific Council of IMT Bucharest
Dr. Carmen Moldovan graduated on Electronics and Telecommunications and she owns a PhD in Microsensors.Her current research activity is focused on development of chemosensors and biosensors, micro-nanoelectrodes, ISFETs, nanowire transistors, MEMS, NEMS, BioMEMS, microfluidic platforms, readout design, signal processing, data acquisition for microsensor arrays and energy harvester for selfautonomous systems and Platforms and systems
(e.g. Platform for pesticides detection; Portable device for early detection of acute myocardial infraction; Optical Platform for detection and monitoring of metabolic syndrome) Dr. Carmen Moldovan is / was a partner or coordinator of 15 EU Projects (FP6, FP7, ERA-NET) and 20 National Projects. She is currently coordinating two ERA-NET and three National projects. Her scientific activity was published in more than 120 papers in journals, books and Proceedings.
Dr. Marius Andrei Avram received a MSc degree in Plasma Physics (2010) from the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering (2014) from the faculty of Electrical Engineering, "Politehnica" University Bucharest. He is with IMT Bucharest since 2005, and currently he is working on development and integration of carbon based materials, like graphene derivatives, into different types of sensors for industrial and research applications. His main research interests are in developing carbon-based materials, and implementation of fabrication processes for MEMS, microfluidics, micro-nano-electronics and dedicated microstructures.
Job Titles:
- Director of CENASIC
- Member of the President of Scientific Council of IMT Bucharest
- President of Scientific Council of IMT Bucharest
Mircea Dragoman was born in Bucharest in 1955. He graduated the "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Electronic Faculty, in 1980. He received the doctoral degree in electronics in 1991. Mircea Dragoman is a senior researcher I at the IMT-Bucharest, he is working in the laboratory "Microsystems and micromachined circuits for microwaves- (RF MEMS)" where he designed and characterized a series of circuits in the microwave and millimeter
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the CEO and President of the Board
- President, General Director IMT Bucharest
Dr. Adrian Dinescu obtained the M.Sc. degree (1993) and the PhD degree (2010), from Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest. Between 1993 and 1997, Adrian Dinescu was with the National Institute for Research in Electronic Components, working in the field of optoelectronic devices: fabrication and measurements.
Since 1997 Dr, Dinescu is with IMT-Bucharest, where he is currently involved in micro and nano fabrication. His expertise includes: e-beam lithography, thin film deposition by e-beam evaporation, field emission scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy. From 2012 to 2017 Dr. Dinescu acted as Technical Director and from 2017 he is the general manager of IMT.
Dr. Adrian Dinescu coordinated 10 national research projects, one H2020 project and was the coordinator from the Romanian part of the FP-7 project. He co-authored about 75 papers in refereed international journals.
Radu Cristian Popa received a MSc in Electrical Engineering (Applied Electronics) from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1989), and a PhD in Quantum Engineering and Systems Science at University of Tokyo (1998).
He was assistant professor in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1991-1995), and senior researcher at the Science Solutions lntn. Lab., Inc., Tokyo (1998-2003), where he managed industrial research projects with leading Japanese companies and institutions, mainly in numerical modeling and analysis of complex phenomena and devices.
2003-2006, he was scientific associate at the University of Tuebingen, Germany and then became Development Director at Neurostar, GmbH, Germany, designing and developing hardware and software solutions for functional neurosurgery and neuroscience systems for brain microelectrode exploration and electrophysiological recording, and medical imaging. Radu Popa joined IMT Bucharest in 2007. Main scientific activities include theoretical and experimental studies of micro-nano materials and structures, experiment planning
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- Member of the Representative of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization
Job Titles:
- FAINIS, Membru, Specialist, Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării Și Digitalizării
- Member of the Specialist, Representative of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization
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- Member of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection
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- Member of the Specialist, University "Politehnica" Bucharest
- Membru, Specialist, Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti
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- Member of the Ministry of Finance