CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA Surname: VLAD First name: Ionel Valentin Date/Place of Birth: 22 September 1943 / Bucharest, Romania Nationality: Romanian Gender: M Marital status: Married to Adriana Vlad (nee Popescu, Professor of Information Theory at Univ. “Politehnica” of Bucharest); one daughter, Ana Gabriela Vlad OFFICE: - Romanian Academy 125, Calea Victoria 010071 Bucharest, Romania Phone: +40-21 212 86 58; Fax: +40-21 211 66 08 E-mail : [email protected] Web: acad.ro - National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR) Dept. of Lasers 409 Atomistii Str., P.O. Box MG-36, 077125 Bucharest, Romania Phone/Fax: +40-21 457-4472; Fax: +40-21 457-4472, +40-21 423-1650 E_mail: v_i_vlad@yahoo Web: nio.inflpr.ro EDUCATION AND TRAINING Graduation: 1966, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Dept. Electronics and Telecom, Romania Diploma supervised by Prof. G. Cartianu, Member of Romanian Academy Post-graduation studies at University of Bucharest, Dept. Physics, with Acad. S. Titeica and Prof.M. Gavrila; Stage at CGE – Lab. Marcoussis and Université de Paris VI, Prof. M. Francon Dr. Eng. : 1972, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Dept. Electronics and Telecom, Romania Thesis “Methods of information processing in conventional and real-time holography” supervised by Prof. G. Cartianu, Member of Romanian Academy Languages: Romanian (native language), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (good), Russian (good), Italian (good) of00) CAREER/EMPLOYMENT Jan. 1966 - present: Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest (IAPB), Lab. ”Optical Methods in Nuclear Physics”, lead by Prof. Ion Agarbiceanu, Member of Romanian Academy; IAPB - Dept. of Lasers (1966-1977) – Scientific Researcher; Institute of Physics and Technology of Radiation Devices - IFTAR (1977-1997) – Scientific Researcher III, Head of Lab. “Holography and Optical Information Processing” (until 1990); National Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (INFLPR) - Dept. Lasers (1997-present), Senior scientific researcher grade I, Head of Lab. “Nonlinear and Information Photonics” (1991-present); 1991 - 2002: President of Physics Commission of the Consultative College for R&D in Romania 1996 - 2002 Vice-president of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Atomic Physics; 2002 - 2005: Co-Director of the Center of Excellence in Photonics (ROCEP), Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania; 2004-2008 National project director of EU Network of Excellence “Nanophotonics for Molecular-Scale Technologies” (“PHOREMOST IST 2-511616”); National representative in the projects COST P2, COST P8 and COST MP0702 “Towards functional sub-wavelength photonic structures” (2007) 1990 - present: Professor (assoc.) at the Bucharest University, Fac. Physics and Doctoral School of Physics; supervised 7 PhD students RESEARCH INTERESTS - Main field: Optics and Photonics - Other fields: Solid State Physics, Statistical Physics, Interaction of Radiation with Matter - Current research interests: Basic: Nonlinear Optics, with particular interests in the theory and the experimental observation of spatial solitons and soliton waveguiding of ultrashort (femtosecond) laser impulses; wave mixing and phase conjugation in photorefractive crystals and optical fibers, nonlinear optical microscopy; stimulated light scattering; holography. Nanophotonics, with particular interests in the enhancement of nonlinear response of nanostructured materials, size-dependent properties (semiconductor quantum dots, periodic structures etc) and stimulated light emission (laser) at molecular scale. Applied: Demonstration of new/enhanced functionalities for information technologies; methods for modeling and image processing in various optical phenomena; new laser instrumentation
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