Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1986
• Ph.D.''Distributed grammar systems'' University of Bucharest, 1993

  Academic positions:

• Associate Professor 1988 - 2001
• Full Professor 2002 -
• "Gheorghe Lazar" Prize of the Romanian Academy of Sciences 1997.
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany, 1995-1996, 1999.
• Fellowship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, 1999-2000, 2001.
• Visiting professor or visiting researcher at University of Turku, Finland, (1993,1996,1998), Fattih College in Istanbul, Turkey, (1994), University of Opava, Czech Republic, (1998), Rovira i Virgili University, Spain, (1997), University ``La Sapienza'', Rome, Italy, (2001).

Main Research Interests:

• theory of algorithms
• formal languages and automata
• DNA computation