About me

Career:

• State Inspector in Civil Engineering - Iaşi, Romania
• Senior Lecturer - Department of Structural Mechanics, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iaşi, Romania
• Senior Engineer - ISPA Contracts - Iaşi for Jacobs Gibb (Reading, UK) & Louis Berger Inc (Paris, France)
• Research Fellow at Civil & Mech. Div., University of Warwick, UK
• Head of building site & Quality Inspector - "Consart Building Company" S.A. Iaşi, Romania
• Education:
• Dr Eng - Structural Mechanics, "Gh. Asachi" Tech. Univ. of Iaşi, 1999
• BSc - Civil Engineering, "Gh. Asachi" Tech. Univ. of Iaşi, 1987

Research interests:

• Impact and blast in civil engineering
• Nonlinear structural analysis
• Unconventional in civil engineering and parametric design
• Acoustics in Civil Engineering

Triaxial shaking table 16 tons payload - ANCO Engng. - Boulder, Colorado - USA
("Gh. Asachi" Tech. Univ. of Iasi, Fac. of Civil Engng, Dept.of Structural Mechanics)

Postdoctoral fellowship:

• Discrete element modelling of historic masonry structures under seismic loading - The Royal Society / NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Warwick, UK - May, 2000 - April, 2001

Postgraduate studies:

• Analiza şi controlul riscurilor în economie şi informatică [Risk Analysis & Control in Economics and Informatics] - Center of Training and Analysis in Risk's Engineering - CeFAIR, "Al. I. Cuza" University of Iaşi, Romania - POSDRU/18/1.2/G/34597, September 15th - October 14, 2011
• The International Catastrophic Risks Forum - ICAR 2006 - Bucuresti, Romania, October 02-03, 2006
• Advanced Studies in Structural Engineering and CAE - seminar & workshop, Bauhaus Universitat Weimar, Germany, August 07-18, 2006
• Impact Modelling of Metal Structures - Technical University of Denmark, Department of Naval Engineering & Architecture, Lyngby, Denmark, June 14 - 23, 1999
• Iterative and Finite Element Multigrid Methods - Technical University of Denmark, Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Lyngby, Denmark, June 25 - July 3, 1998
• Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Structures - Technical University of Denmark, Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Lyngby, Denmark, June 25 - July 4, 1997
• Training course for COSMOS/M finite element analysis software, - Sept. 1997, I.N.A.S. Craiova, Romania - Authorized Trainer of Structural Research and Analysis Corporation - USA
• Structural Strengthening Techniques for Historical Monuments - Workshop organized by Romanian Earthquake Engineering Association & Romanian Society of Historical Monuments Restorators - Iasi, Romania, September 2 - 6, 1996

Spoken languages:
English, French, Italian

Hobbies:
Jazz, drums, photography (have a look on Flickr), UFO phenomena & world ancient mysteries, rugby, rollerblade, weightlifting, mountain hikes, GO