Romanian-Austrian Science Day


14 May 2009 VISITING & PARTNERING DAY


Iasi, Romania

 

 

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NAME OF ORGANIZATION:
“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Of Iaşi – Romania

Contact details:
Address: Blvd. Carol I, no.11 / 700506 – Iaşi, Romania
Department for Scientific Research
Prof.dr. Gheorghe POPA, Vice Rector for Scientific Research
Mrs. Elena RADU, Head of Department for Research and Project Management,
Phone: 40 232 201024
Fax: 40 32 201201,
email: eradu@uaic.ro
Web address: http://www.uaic.ro

FIELD(S) OF ACTIVITY: Education and Research

RESEARCH PRIORITIES: see details for individual Faculties

INNOVATIVE RTD ASPECTS:

  • elaboration of new approaches and theories in the field related to the subject;
  • development of existing approaches/theories/methods;
  • elaboration of new experimental methods;
  • adaptation of existing approaches/theories/methods/technologies in view of being used in other applications;
  • valorization (evaluation and exploitation) of RTD results

COOPERATION INTERESTS: see details for individual Faculties

REQUESTED PARTNER PROFILE: see details for individual Faculties

 

Faculty of Biology
Contact details: Director, Assoc. Prof. dr. Zenovia Olteanu
http://biology.uaic.ro

FIELD(S) OF ACTIVITY:

  • Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular and Biology: Biochemistry, Enzymology, Biotechnology, Ecological Biochemistry , Microbial Ecology, Cytogenetics , Population genetics , Cellular Biology  and Biophysics;
  • Laboratory of Vegetal  Biology: Ecological Anatomy and Experimental Morphogenesis, Vegetal physiology and ecophysiology, Mycology , Phytopathology, Vegetal taxonomy, Preservation and long term use of the biodiversity
  • Laboratory of  Animal Biology: Zoology, Ecology and Preservation of  Biodiversity, Entomology, Ornitology, Limnology, Marine Biology, Comparative Anatomy Ecomorphology, Histology Animal Morphogenesis , Bioarchaeology

RESEARCH PRIORITIES:
a)

  • Molecular study on hereditary predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer.
  • Understanding and Managing the Rhizosphere Microbiota in Agroecosystems.
  • Molecular aspects of neurodegenerative diseases and oxidative stress-induced neurological disorders (genes that encode ion channels, neuropeptides, neurotrophic factors, and their receptors, oxidative stress and antioxidant defense, apoptosis and specific neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson).
  • Proteomics techniques in studying different aspects of induced neurodegenerative diseases in rats (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson disease).
  • Molecular aspects of learning and memory processes.
  • Vegetal, animal and microbial bioactive substances with citostatic, immunomodulatory, metabolic and neurotropic action.
  • Proteomics of soybean plant-Rhizobacteria interactions.
  • Mitochondrial DNA markers in molecular taxonomy and systematic.
  • Molecular aspects of immunity and oxidative stress on animals.
  • High nutrient digestible diets and low pollution diets for Cyprinids and Salmonids aquaculture.

b)

  • Multiplication of rare and vulnerable plants from Romanian Flora by classical methods and in vitro cultures.
  • Embryogenesis process in species of scientific and practical interest.
  • Morphological, structural, ultra structural and biochemical biomarkers in anthropic impact on the biodiversity of vegetal organisms and mycorrhizal fungi species
  • Taxonomical, ecological and microsociological studies of the microbiota diversity in natural ecosystems.
  • Phytological and mycological improvement of polluted soil in their ecological reconstruction.

c)

  • Human impact on biodiversity and ecological monitoring.
  • Entomology and biological control of pests.
  • Herpetology; Ornithology.
  • Animal structures with bioindicator values.
  • Bioarchaeology (archaeozoology, archaeobotany, archaeogenetics).

REQUESTED PARTNER PROFILE:

  • University or other scientific institution working on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Experience/Expertise in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • University or other scientific institution working on vegetal Biology; Experience/Expertise in Vegetal Biology
  • University or other scientific institution working on Animal Biology, Bioarchaeology Experience/Expertise in Animal Biology, Bioarchaeology

 

Faculty of Chemistry
Contact details: Director, Prof.dr. Evelini Popovici
http://www.chem.uaic.ro/

FIELD(S) OF ACTIVITY:
Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Materials chemistry

RESEARCH PRIORITIES:

  • Synthesis, characterization and study of reactivity of  inorganic compounds with special properties.
  • Radiochemistry.
  • Nuclear fuels and reprocessing of the spent nuclear fuels.
  • Cicloimmonium Ylide Chemistry Microwave and Ultrasounds Assisted Reactions
  • Phenothiazine chemistry
  • Paracyclophane chemistry
  • Supramolecular chemistry
  • Toxicological and pharmaceutical chemistry
  • Structure and reactivity of molecular systems
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Characterization of polymeric systems in solution and solid state
  • Phase transitions in polymeric, inorganic and composite systems
  • Optimization of separating and concentrating some elements from complex matrices using ionic exchangers
  • Nano- and biomaterials: synthesis, characterization and use in photocatalysis and environmental protection

REQUESTED PARTNER PROFILE:

  • University or other scientific institution working on inorganic, bioinorganic and radiochemistry; Experience/Expertise in compounds with special properties.
  • University or other scientific institution working on heterocyclic chemistry; Experience/Expertise in compounds with biological activity.
  • University or other scientific institution working on theoretical and applied physical chemistry; Experience/Expertise in molecular reactivity, phase transitions or dynamics of complex systems.
  • University or other scientific institution working on environmental analytical chemistry; Experience/Expertise in applied analytical chemistry.
  • University or other scientific institution working on materials chemistry; Experience/Expertise in nano and biomaterials.

 

Faculty of  Physics
Contact details: Director, Prof. Dumitru Luca
http://www.phys.uaic.ro/default.php/

FIELD(S) OF ACTIVITY:

Magnetism and magnetic materials; Low temperature plasma diagnosis and applications; Optics and spectroscopy; Interaction of the optical radiation with the matter; Physics of Self-Organized Systems; Biophysics and Medical Physics; Transport Phenomena in Semiconductors; Dielectric Materials. Polarisation Phenomena in Dielectrics; Theoretical Physics

RESEARCH PRIORITIES:

Nanomagnetism, micro-magnetism, molecular magnetism.

  • Multilayers. Nanowires.
  • Plasma diagnosis.
  • Plasma-assisted surface modifications
  • Functional nanoscaled magnetic materials for advanced applications.
  • Mechanisms of electrical conduction in organic semiconducting compounds in thin films

Self-organisation in plasma devices

  • New  methods and  formalisms in theoretical physics
  • Characterisation of molecular organisation in biomaterials.
  • Photocatalytic nanomaterials
  • Molecular and cellular electrophysiology
  • Optimisation of the radio-therapeutic treatment

REQUESTED PARTNER PROFILE:
University or other scientific institution working on:

  • Nanomagnetism, micro-magnetism, molecular magnetism.
  • Multilayers. Nanowires.

Plasma diagnosis. Barrier-magnetron- and cold cathode discharges.

  • Plasma-assisted surface modifications
  • Interaction of the optical radiation with the matter.
  • Self-organised criticality and anomalous transport of matter and energy.
  • Response of some membrane biostructures to physical and chemical constraints
  • Dielectric materials properties in high frequencies domain
  • Extended theories of gravitation and other matter fields
  • Gauge theories in elementary particles physics
  • Characterisation of molecular organisation in biomaterials.

Expertise in:

  • Functional nanoscaled magnetic materials for - advanced applications.
  • Elementary processes in plasmas. Numerical simulations.

Optical and spectrometric characterisation of polymers, biomaterials and plasmas.

Self-organisation in plasma devices

  • Optimisation of the radio-therapeutic treatment
  • Mechanisms of electrical conduction in organic semiconducting compounds in thin films
  • Structural and functional properties of ferroelectric ceramics
  • New  methods and  formalisms in theoretical physics
  • Nonlinear phenomena in complex systems
  • Molecular and cellular electrophysiology

 

Faculty  of  Computer Science
Contact details: Director, Prof.dr.Dan Cristea
http://www.infoiasi.ro

FIELD(S) OF ACTIVITY:
Codes and Cryptography ; Combinatorial Optimization;  Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Formal Methods in Software Engineering; Modelling and Verification; Databases and data mining; Logic in Computer Science; Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics; Soft Computing (Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Techniques); Parallel Computing; Web Technologies (Semantic Web, Service Oriented Architectures, Web interaction)

RESEARCH PRIORITIES:

  • Abstraction and modularization techniques in model checking, security protocols: modelling, complexity, and verification, secret sharing schemes, authentication codes
  • Graphs colouring, perfect graphs, social networks
  • Protein folding, micro ARN identification, micro ARN target identification, micro ARN and cancer
  • Algebras and co-algebras in symbolic computation, specification languages, tools for automatic proof
  • Distributed and object-oriented databases, data warehouses
  • Formal syntactic frame to prove SAT, verification of business processes, verification via separation logics, belief logics for information security
  • Computational lexicography, discourse theories, modelling language evolution, infrastructures for language resources and tools, question answering, textual entailment
  • Evolutionary clustering, evolutionary data mining, multi-objective optimisation 
  • Trust and reputation in social Web, semantic e-health

REQUESTED PARTNER PROFILE:
Universities or other scientific institutions working on Computer Science:
TU Vienna, University of Linz, RISC Linz Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, others

Experience/Expertise in IT&C research and project development
Faculty of Geography and Geology
Contact details: Director Prof.dr. Ionel Muntele
http://www.geo.uaic.ro

FIELD(S) OF ACTIVITY:
Geography, Geology

RESEARCH PRIORITIES:

  • Abstraction and modularization techniques in model checking, security protocols: Capitalization of  Soil Resources  and Land Uses
  • Climatic Studies and Wetlands Assesment
  • Studies of Environmental Impact, Risks and Natural or Anthropic Hazards
  • Dynamic of Geomorphological Processes
  • Teledetection and GIS for Sustainable Development
  • Land Uses and Planning
  • Actuals problems in the Romanian Human Geography
  • The Dynamics of the contemporary Tourism and its importance to Regional Development
  • The Preservation of Natural Patrimony, Environmental Protection and Setting up New Protected Areas
  • Geochemistry of Inorganic Natural Systems
  • Mineralogy and Petrography
  • Economic Geology
  • Hydrogeochemical Modelling
  • Anthropogenic and Natural Hazards: Protection, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction   Systems
  • Risk for the Human Health Made by the Environmental Factors
  • Analytical Geochemistry and Experimental Modelling of the Geochemical Systems
  • Geological and Paleontological Studies on the Neogene Formations from Moldavian

REQUESTED PARTNER PROFILE:

  • University or other scientific institution working on Environment Protection and Sustainable Development; Experience/Expertise in Teledetection and GIS, Risk Management
  • University or other scientific institution working on Environmental Geochemistry; Experience/Expertise in XRF, AAS, IR analyses of minerals, soils, rocks and water

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The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Bulevardul Carol I, No.11, 700506
Iasi, Romania


T:+40 (232) 201000
F:+40 (232) 201201