Radu Popa

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About Radu Popa

Radu Cristian, POPA Home Address: 6 Drm.Murgului, Bucharest 031714, ROMANIA Business Address: 126A Erou Iancu Nicolae, Bucharest 077190, ROMANIA Telephone:+40 21 269 07 78 - 219 Mobile:+40 751 099 049 E-mail: radu.popa@imt.ro Nationality: Romanian Date of birth: December 25, 1965 Radu Popa received a MSc in Electrical Engineering (Applied Electronics) from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1989), and a PhD in Quantum Engineering and Systems Science at University of Tokyo (1998). He was assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1991-1995), and Senior Researcher at the Science Solutions Intn. Lab, Inc, Tokyo (1998-2003), where he conducted competitive industrial research in numerical modeling and analysis of complex phenomena and devices. 2003-2006, he was scientific associate at the University of Tuebingen, Germany and then became Development Director at Neurostar, GmbH, Germany, designing and developing hardware and software solutions for functional neurosurgery and neuroscience. Radu Popa joined IMT Bucharest in 2007 and is presently director of Department and head of the Molecular Nanotechnology Lab. Main scientific interests include atomistic modeling and simulation in the framework of the rational design paradigm for functional materials and nanostructures.