Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1984, University of Bucharest
Concentrations: Mathematical models in Fluid Dynamics
Dissertation: "Finite Elements Methods as Applied to some Problems of Viscous Fluid Mechanics"
Advisor: Prof. Caius Jacob, member of Romanian Academy of Sciences

M. Sc. in Mathematics, 1974, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca
Concentrations: Numerical methods for partial differential equations
Thesis: "Numerical Approximations to Solutions of Diffusive Boundary Layer Equations"
Advisor: Prof. Ioan Stan

Academic honours and awards

The Romanian National Academy Price "S. Stoilow", 1990, for the book: Finite Elements Methods and Applications, Romanian Academy Publishing
House, 1987

Research in preparation

• Numerical Methods for Conservative Dynamical Systems
• Spectral Methods for Differential Problems

Current Research Interests

• Mathematical models for viscous free surface flows (Marangoni-Plateau-Gibbs effect)
• Boundary and finite methods (spectral) and their application in industrial problems
• Numerical methods for dynamical systems
• Numerical linear algebra (pseudo spectra), and spectral methods for eigenvalue problems

Papers presented at recent conferences and seminars

• On the Long Time Energy Conservation by Composed Stoermer-Verlet Methods; Applications to Solar System, CM&DA, Cluj-Napoca, 25-27 May, 2006
• Numerical Geometric Integration for some Reaction Diffusion Problems, GAMM Conference, Univ. Augsburg, Germany, March 2002
• On the Significance of Integral Properties of Orbits in Some Superlinear Fixed-Period Problems, ICNODEA (International Conference in Nonlinear Ordinary
  Differential Equations and Applications), Cluj-Napoca, Sept. 2001
• Stability of thin liquid layers flowing down an inclined plane, EUROMECH
  Colloquium "Waves in Two Phase Flows", Istanbul, Turkey, April 1998