SORIN GEORGE GRIGORESCU

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AFFILIATION AND OFFICIAL ADDRESS

 Laser-Surface-Plasma Interactions Laboratory,
 Laser Department National Institute for Lasers, Plasma, and Radiation Physics (INFLPR)
 Institute of Atomic Physics
409 Atomistilor Street
P.O. Box MG-36 RO-77125,
Magurele, Bucharest V, Romania
Phone: +4021 457 44 91
Mobile: +4 0746 100 131
Fax: +4021 457 42 43, 457 44 67
e-mail: sorin.grigorescu@inflpr.ro

Date and place of birth:

    January 04, 1979; Craiova, Dolj, Romania

Nationality:

    Romanian

EDUCATION

    Ph. D. student in Optics, Spectroscopy and Laser Physics at Physics Faculty, University of Bucharest, Romania. Subject of the thesis: Biomaterials Laser Processing
    Erasmus (Socrates) student at LISS Laboratory (Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Surfaces de Strasbourg), INSA Strasbourg, France 
    dissertation: Biocompatibility of ceramic thin films deposited by PLD (Pulsed Laser Deposition) method on titanium substrates (in French)
    Dipl.Eng. in Materials Science and Physical Metallurgy, Engineering Sciences Department, Education received in French language, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania 
    Dissertation: Study concerning the refractory properties of ionic-nitrided films formed in steels for high temperature forges (in French) Thesis made in collaboration with the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiations Physics Magurele and INTEC Bucharest
    National College “Radu Greceanu” Slatina, Major in Computer Science. 
    Dissertation: Entertainment software using Turbo Pascal libraries (in Romanian)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

     Research Assistant at the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele, Romania, Laser-Surface-Plasma Interactions Laboratory.
    Working Stage at « Universita degli studi di Lecce », Physics Department, Lecce, Italy
     Working Stage at Electronics Institute and Solid State Physics Institute of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
     E-MRS Short Course “Materials Surface Processing (MATSUP) – Deposition and Characterization of Surface Coatings and Thin Films”, Strasbourg, France.
    Parti Imex 2000 SRL, Computers Division, technical department (collaboration)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

     National and EU Research Projects (see the attached list)
     Bioactive ceramic films deposited by PLD method on titanium substrates and their properties (in French - corrosion approach).
    Hydroxyapatite films deposited on Ti substrate by PLD method (in English – general approach).
    Environmental aspects in zirconium obtaining, engineering and use (in French).
    Collaboration with Physical Metallurgy department, “Politehnica” University Bucharest, Romania, prof. Sorin CIUCA, regarding the book “Biomatériaux”.
    Influence of temperature over ionic nitrurated pieces used in forging installations (in French).
    Industrial Design project concerning a pressure valve (in Romanian).
    Collaboration with Chemistry department in “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Romania, prof. Ligia STOICA.

MERITS AND AWARDS

    Second Prize at the Industrial Design communications session organized by the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania.
     Member of the local informatics “Info LRG” contest jury, Slatina, Romania.
    Finalist at Romanian National Olympiad of Informatics, Special Prize.

IT SKILLS

     MS-DOS, All versions of MicrosoftWindows, Linux      Borland Pascal, Delphi
    Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage),CorelDraw, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, ImageJ      Origin, EG&G ORTEC Maestro (X-ray Fluorescence),SIEMENS DiffracAT,SpectraAT (X-ray Diffraction),MountainsMap (Micro-topography)

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