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.
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.
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
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 inIT&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