Department of Exact Sciences
and Natural Sciences
Director department: Senior Researcher I PhD habil. Alina ASANDEI
DEPARTMENT OF EXACT SCIENCES AND NATURAL SCIENCES, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi aims to contribute consistently in promoting the excellence in education and research in our University. Based upon its values, such as integrity, excellence in research and scientific relevance, as well as the quality of our human resources, this department offers first and foremost credibility and respectability regarding the scientific endeavor undertaken in our University.
Based on these pillars, the long-term goals of the Science Research Department, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, are:
- to nurture scientists distinguished by moral and intellectual qualities, who demonstrate creativity, originality, innovating spirit, and able to perform competitively in inter- and trans-disciplinary topics
- to contribute substantially to the added-value of excellence R&D output of our University, which should consolidate its status as a first class University inRomania, and assume the national leadership in promoting and further developing research and innovation themes situated in the forefront of the internationalized science
- all R&D efforts and subsequent results must be defined by utmost scientific quality and international visibility
- this Department must aim at becoming an international destination for top-notch research, undertaken in interdisciplinary fields, including nano- and bio-technologies, life- and earth sciences, molecular biophysics and medical physics, applied mathematics and computer science, the science of advanced materials.
THE DEPARTMENT OF EXACT SCIENCES AND NATURAL SCIENCES has in its composition three distinct Research Centers, namely: the Platform for Interdisciplinary Training and Research in Archeology (“ARHEOINVEST Center”), the Integrated Center for Studies in Environmental Science for the North-East Region (“CERNESIM Center”) and the Center for Research in the Field of Advanced Materials and Technologies (“RAMTECH Center”) as well as two Research Groups: the Molecular Biophysics Group and the Environmental Sciences Group, respectively. The three centers are led by a Research Center Director, and the research groups are coordinated by a Group Coordinator.
Senior Researcher I PhD habil. Alina ASANDEI
Director of Science Research Department
MEMBERS OF THE Department of Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences
- Scientific Researcher II PhD Andrei Asăndulesei (Science Research Department, ARHEOINVEST Center)
- Senior Researcher II PhD Alina Asandei (Science Research Department)
- Senior Principal Researcher I PhD habil. Mariana Neamţu (Science Research Department)
- University Professor Romeo-Iulian Olariu (Science Research Department, CERNESIM Center )
- Scientific Researcher II PhD Sorin Taşcu (Science Research Department, RAMTECH Center )
- Scientific Researcher II PhD Felix-Adrian Tencariu (Science Research Department, ARHEOINVEST Center )
Research centers and groups
ARHEOINVEST
The ARHEOINVEST center consists of five laboratories, each laboratory having several sections. The main research directions of the Arheoinvest center are: History, Archeology, Archaeometry, Anthropology, Botany, Zoology, Molecular Genetics, Physical Geography, Environmental Geography, Soil Sciences, Geology, Geochemistry.
Cernesim
The CERNESIM Centre enables an integrated systemic approach of various environmental issues for a better understanding of the natural and social phenomena occurring in the environment, involving climate change by following causes and impacts, prevention and mitigation of unwanted changes in the environment at both long- and medium-term levels.
Ramtech
The RAMTECH Center develops basic and applied research in advanced materials science with particular emphasis in the fields of integrated nonlinear optics and photonics, plasma-assisted thin films deposition, plasma diagnostics, photovoltaics materials, multi-functional ceramic materials, sensor materials and devices.
Environmental Sciences
The main interests of the Environmental Sciences Research Group include a holistic approach of research on multidisciplinary fields that integrates the chemical, biological, physical, biogeochemical, mathematical and computational, as well as the earth sciences (geology, mineralogy, soil).
