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Prof. Dr. Ionel Valentin Vlad, Head of Group NIO
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Job Title: | Senior Scientific Researcher I | | Head of Group NIO |
| Professor of Photonics, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Doctoral School |
Office Location: National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Laser Dept.
Telephone: +4021.457.44.67
Fax: +4021.457.44.79
Email: v_i_vlad@yahoo.com ; vlad@nipne.ro
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Ionel Valentin Vlad graduated the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Dept. of Electronics, in 1966 and obtained the scientific title of Doctor Eng. from the same Institute, in 1972, with a thesis on information processing in holography, supervised by Prof. G. Cartianu, Member of Romanian Academy. Researcher in the Institute of Atomic Physics Bucharest (IAPB), from 1966 until 1975, where he achieved the first solid state laser in Romania (with G. Nemes) in 1968. In 1969-70, he also studied at the University of Paris (with Prof. M. Francon) and visited CGE-Marcoussis.
In 1975, he became chief of Holography Laboratory at the Department of Lasers, IAPB. In the interval of 1977-89, he was a senior researcher in the Central Institute of Physics. During that time, he was also a visiting scientist at the Physical Institute "A.F.Ioffe" in St. Petersburg, working in holography, ultra-fast optical phase conjugation, wave mixing in photorefractive crystals (PRC) and pm-amplitude vibration measurements (with Prof. Yu. I. Ostrovski and Prof. M. P. Petrov). He visited also the Technical University Darmstadt (DAAD Fellowship, for wave mixing in PRC with Prof. T. Tschudi).
Since 1990, he has been professor at the University of Bucharest and chief of the Laboratory Nonlinear and Information Optics in IAPB-NILPRP, Department of Lasers. He was a visiting professor at Chiba University, Japan (JSPS Fellowship for associative storage and processing in PRC, with Prof. J. Tsujiuchi, in 1991), at Centro de Investigaciones en Optica of Leon, Mexico (Catedra de Excelencia, collaboration in direct spatial reconstruction of optical phase with Prof. D. Malacara, in 1992) and at Universita "La Sapienza" di Roma, Dept. Energetics, collaborating in spatial solitons in PRC with Prof. M. Bertolotti and Prof. E. Fazio, in 2001 and 2005. He was also invited, as a visiting researcher, to the USAF Laboratory in Hanscom (USA), in 1999.
Prof. Vlad was active as an external collaborator at the Imperial College, Blackett Lab., in London, since 1991 (in a project with Prof. J. C. Dainty and Prof. M. Damzen on SBS, adaptive interferometry and interconnection using PRCs) and at Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching (in a collaboration with Prof. H. Walther on space charge distribution study in PRCs with a highly sensitive AFM for information storage with few photons), since 1994. In 1995, he became associate researcher at ICTP, Trieste (Italy) and in 2003, ICTP Senior associate (with research work on quantum gases in cavities with small adiabatic invariants and nonlinear photonics). In 2001-2008, he was a project co-ordinator, with Prof. E. Fazio (for studies in spatial solitons and soliton waveguides), in the frame of the Inter-governmental Italian-Romanian Collaboration Agreement in R&D. He was a co-director of the Romanian Center of Excellence in Photonics (ROCEP).
His publications include more than 150 scientific papers published in Romania and abroad and he took part in over 200 scientific communications at conferences. He holds four patents (one in USA), is the author or co-author of five books and editor of 5 Proceedings SPIE (of the conferences "ROMOPTO").
Prof. Valentin Vlad has been the President of Physics Commission of Romanian Consultative College for R&D in 1991-2002 and Vice-president of Grant Commission of Romanian Academy (1994-2007). He was also the national project coordinator in the EU Network of Excellence FP6-PHOREMOST-NoE IST-2-511616 "Nano-photonics to Realize Molecular Scale Technologies" (with works in study of optical nonlinearities of nano-structured materials, quantum dots, in nano-imaging and in theory of thermodynamic functions of cavities with low adiabatic invariants) and in the EU-FP6 COST P8 Action (on optical information storage and processing). Vlad is the national project coordinator in the EU COST MP0702 Action (on sub-wavelength photonic devices).
Currently, he is the President of Div. Optics and Quantum Electronics of the Romanian Physical Society (which acts also as ICO National Territory and EOS partner). In 1991-1993, he was Vice-president of SPIE - Romanian Chapter. He is the chief-editor of the journals "Romanian Reports in Physics" and Proc. Romanian Academy: A, as well as a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of the European Optical Society" and "SPIE Reviews".
Prof. Valentin Vlad received different awards for his work, including "T. Vuia" Award of the Romanian Academy in 1978. He was elected "Fellow Optical Society of America" since 1978, Member of the Romanian Academy (a lifetime position between 181 distinguished intellectuals of the country) since 1991 and "Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Chartered Physicist", U.K, since 1999. In 2005, he was elected Member of Academia Europaea and he received "Galileo Galilei" Award of the International Commission of Optics (affiliated to ICSU and IUPAP). In 2006, he was elected Fellow of The Intl. Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE). In 2008, he was decorated with the National Order "Loyal Service" in grade of Knight.
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Dr. Adrian Petris
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Job Title: Senior Scientific Researcher I
Office Location: NILPRP, Laser Dept.
Telephone: +4021.457.44.67/2052
Email1: adrian.petris@inflpr.ro
Email2: petris@nipne.ro
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Dr. Adrian Petris is physicist and senior scientific researcher at the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest - Magurele.
His current research interests include nonlinear and information optics (spatial optical solitons and soliton waveguides, optical non-linearities in nano-structured materials, wave mixing, self-diffraction, optical phase conjugation, adaptive optical interconnects, holography and holographic interferometry using reusable photosensitive recording media).
He is Associate Member of International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Awards: the Romanian Academy award "C. Miculescu" for Physics (1997).
Visiting researcher: Imperial College, London (1996-2001), University "La Sapienza", Rome (2001-2008), Institut fur Reaktorsicherheit, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (1996, 1997), Phys.-Techn. Institute "A.F.Ioffe", St. Petersburg (1990), etc.
Scientific publications: over 50 published papers and 55 communications at conferences.
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Dr. Vasile Babin
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Vasile Babin is physicist and senior researcher at the National Institute of Optoelectronics, Bucharest and external collaborator at the National Institute of Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics. His research topics include theoretical studies and modeling of the nonlinear optical phenomena (stimulated Brillouin scattering, spatial solitons in photorefractive crystals, nonlinear wave mixing). He is author / co-author of over 80 published papers and communications at international and national scientific conferences and 3 books. Participant at the Inter-governmental Italian-Romanian Collaboration Agreement in R&D, from 2001.
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Tatiana Bazaru
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Job Title: Scientific Researcher
Office Location: NILPRP, Laser Dept.
Telephone: +40746100142
Email1:tatiana.bazaru@inflpr.ro
Email2:bazarutatiana@yahoo.com
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Tatiana Bazaru is a PhD student at the University of Bucharest, preparing her PhD thesis on "Characterization methods of some nonlinear optical materials for photonics", her scientific coordinator being Prof. Dr. Valentin I. Vlad, member of Romanian Academy. She completed her Master of Science Degree in Physics in University of Bucharest in 2002. Title of the dissertation thesis was: "Diffraction efficiency of holographic gratings recorded in As2S3 films", and scientific coordinators were: Prof. Dr. Valentin I. Vlad, member of the Romanian Academy, and Dr. Adrian Petris. She is a researcher at the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics - Lasers Department, Nonlinear and Information Optics Group, from Bucharest, Romania. Nonlinear and Information Optics Group is part of PHOREMOST - Network of excellence - "Nanophotonics to realise molecular scale technologies". The current objectives of her research are: to realize experimental setups which permit systematic investigations of optical nonlinear properties (i.e. photoluminiscence, two wave mixing, four wave mixing, Z-Scan technique); to explore size-dependent effects in silicon (subwavelength structures, nanoporous silicon, nanocrystalline silicon) using these setups.
Member of professional associations: Member of SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering (USA)
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Petronela Simona Gheorghe
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Job Title: Scientific Researcher
Office Location: NILPRP, Laser Dept.
Telephone: +40746100143
Email1: petronela.doia@inflpr.ro
Email2: doiapetronela@yahoo.com
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Petronela S. Gheorghe is PhD student at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, preparing her PhD thesis on "Nonlinear optical properties of sub-wavelength structures" her scientific coordinator being Prof. Dr. Valentin I. Vlad, member of Romanian Academy. She works as a scientific researcher at the Laser Department of the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics - Lasers Department, Nonlinear and Information Optics Group. Her actual research activity concerns investigations of nonlinear optical properties of sub-wavelength structures by confocal microscopy, scanning near field optical microscopy, Z-Scan tehnique, wave-mixing methods. She obtained her Master of Science Degree in Physics at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics in 2004, studying "Methods for the characterization of the nonlinear optical materials", coordinated by Professor Dr. Valentin I. Vlad and Dr. Adrian Petris.
Member of professional associations: Member of SPIE - InternationalSociety for Optical Engineering (USA)
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Ioan Dancus
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Job Title: Scientific Researcher
Office Location: NILPRP, Laser Dept.
Telephone: +40746100148
Email1: ioan.dancus@inflpr.ro
Email2: ioandancus@yahoo.com
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Ioan Dancus is a physicist and researcher at the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania and PhD student at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, scientific supervisor Prof. Valentin I. Vlad, Member of the Romanian Academy. The title of his diploma work is:"Characterization of Semiconductor Materials, Optically Nonlinear, by Z-Scan Method". His PhD thesis is related to the enhancement of optical nonlinearities in nano and nanostructured materials, especially the third order one.
In 2004 he was the president of SPIE Romanian Student Chapter and in present is the vice president of the same organization.
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