| Surname: MUNTEANU
Given name: Florin Date and place of birth: March 27, 1952, Brasov, Romania. Sex: male. Nationality: Romanian. Marital Status: married, 1 child (1976) Studies: 'Politehnica' University Bucharest, Faculty of Technology. Graduation date: June 1976. |
| Professional activity:
since 1998 - general manager of the AsTech
Solutions ltd.
1998 - 2001 member in the advisory board of the Ministery for Research and Technology (ANSTI) |
| Teaching activity:
1979-1985 - discipline of Materials Science; teaching and devising didactic material (Laboratory handbooks), modernization works for the laboratory didactic activity, mainly in the field of nonconventional technologies and nondistructive defectoscopy; 1985,1987 and 1989 - chair owner in 'Materials Technology', teaching at the Faculty of Technology, the Faculty of Electronics and the Faculty of Computer Science. The courses were improved using new notions from fields like fractal measurement methodology, notions of synergetics, stability of dynamic systems with self-regulation and self-organization, chaos theory; 1991-1993 chair owner in 'Materials Science', Romanian Academy for Management, Faculty of Systems Engineering; 1993 - initiator of an optional course of Complexity Science, held at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics; 1993 - lector for the International Summer School 'The Theory of Fractals and Chaos'; 1994 - initiator of the course: 'Foundations of Research on Complex Dynamic Systems', held at the 'Politehnica ' University, Faculty of Technology; |
| Research activity
1971-1987: research focused on nonconventional technologies:
1987-1989 - cooperation with the Laboratory of Geodynamics, Bucharest, on subjects regarding hierarchy aspects in fragmentation processes, the use of fractal geometry in modelling geometrical and physical properties of soil, properties of solid matter obtained by solidification or clustering, transition to chaos applied in modelling geodynamic phenomena; 1987 - PhD admission, with the theme: 'The plastic deformation of metallic materials by magnetic explosion', conducted by Prof. D.Drimer; the work, including examens and presented papers, was performed in 1987-1989; October 1992 - initiator of a group who created, in the framework of the Association of Romanian Scientists, the Commission for Complexity Science (president: prof. Radu Voinea, member of the Romanian Academy; vicepresident: prof. Mircea Rusu; scientific secretary: the undersigned), with the aim of emphasizing the research activity of Romanian scientists in the field of complexity science, supporting information flow on fractal physics, chaos theory, synergetics, neural networks, fuzzy logic a.s.o. 1995 - participation at the scientific expedition for research and mounting of geodynamics instrumentation on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano (Reunion Island); 1995, 1996, 1997,1998 - Summer School "Fractal 9X", Resita; topics: Fractal physics - theory and applications, lectures; 1997 - Research Center for Sports Problems, topic: Nonlinear Approach in Experimental Research; course; 1998 - Central Sanitary-Veterinary Laboratory for Diagnostics, Bucharest; topic: Virtual Instrumentation in Biological Research; 1998 - AsTech Solutions, topic: Virtual Instrumentation, a comprehensive
course for professionals;
Scientific associations: The Association of Romanian Scientists; The Romanian Society of Geophysics; The Romanian Society of Biomechanics; Books: Seminte pentru alta lume - Nemira Translations from:Published papers: Language skills: English, French
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