Research employments and experience
- research scientist III, Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania, since 2012
- associate researcher, Research Center for Atomic Physics and Astrophysics at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania, since 2007
- member of the LISA Consortium, 2018-2022
- member of the JEM-EUSO Collaboration, 2014-2017
- member of the Pierre Auger Collaboration, 2007-2013
- research assistant, Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania, 2011-2012
- Ph.D. fellow, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany, 2005-2011
- Master fellow, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and University of Bonn, Germany, 2003- 2004
Education
- Ph.D degree in Physics, University of Bonn, Germany, 2011 [Ph.D. thesis]
- Master degree in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2004
- Licence in Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania, 1995
Fellowships
- Fellowship for Ph.D. studies from the International Max Planck Research School for Radio and Infrared Astronomy at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany, 2005-2008
- Fellowship for Master studies aboard (at the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany) from Erasmus/Socrates, 2003-2004
Scientific grants
- Unfunded collaborator for Excellence in Research: PIC Simulations of Relativistic Jets with Toroidal Magnetic Fields, 2023-2026
- P.I. for Plasma Shocks and Instabilities in Relativistic Jets of Gamma-ray Bursts, a project financed from the government budget through the STAR-C3 program of the ROmanian Space Agency (ROSA), 2017 - 2018
- P.I. for Radio Dichotomy in Active Galactic Nuclei and Black Hole X-ray Binaries, a project financed from the government budget through the STAR-C1 program of the ROmanian Space Agency (ROSA), 2012 - 2015
Other activities
- Guest co-editor: Special Issue: Black Holes and Relativistic Jets of journal Universe
- Editorial board member of journal Astronomy