• Undergraduate plus Master Studies, Faculty of Physics (Technological Physics), University of Bucharest, 1980-1985. M.Sc. Thesis "GaAs/AlGaAs hetherojuntions laser diodes"
• Ph. D. Studies, Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, 1990-1994, Ph.D. Thesis "Contributions to the study of transport phenomena in high critical temperature superconductors"
• Higher Doctorate Degree (Doctor of Science), 2013, University of Birmingham, UK, D.Sc. Thesis "Vortex Matter, Dynamics and Pinning in Superconductors"

- Engineering Physicist at Institute for Nuclear Power Reactors, Pitesti, Romania, Radiation Detectors Group, from 01/10/1985 to 31/09/1987.

- Physicist, Institute of Physics and Technology of Materials (IPTM), Bucharest, Romania, from 01/10/1987 to 29/11/1994.

- Scientific Researcher,  IPTM, Bucharest, Romania, from 30/11/1994 to 31/12/1996, from 01/01/1998 to 31/02/1998, and from 01/07/1999 to 29/02/2000.

- NATO/Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Southampton, United Kingdom, from 01/01/1997 to 31/12/1997.

- Visiting Scientist at University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Dept. of Physical and Energy Science and Technology, under a research contract with the National Institute for Matter Physics (INFM), Italy, from 01/03/1998 to 30/06/1999.

- Senior Scientist grade 3, National Institute for Materials Physics (NIMP), Bucharest, Romania, from 01/06/2000 to 31/10/2000.

- Research Fellow of the Science and Technology Agency of Japan (STA), Nanoelectronics Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, from 01/11/2000 to 31/08/2002.

- Research Officer, Department of Physics, University of Bath, United Kingdom, under a grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, from 01/09/2002 to 31/08/2004.

- Senior Scientist grade 2, National Institute for Materials Physics, Bucharest, Romania, from 01/11/2004 to 18/12/2005.

- Team Leader, EU Marie Curie Excellence Team “NanoTechPinningHTS”, Department of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, from 01/05/2007 to 31.07.2015.

- Senior Scientist grade 1, National Institute for Materials Physics, Bucharest, Romania, from 19/12/2005 to present day.

·         EU “Go West” Fellowship, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, 3 months, 1994.

·         NATO/Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Southampton, U. K, 1 year, 1997.

·         STA Postdoctoral Fellowship (short term) at Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, 3 months, 2000.

·         STA Postdoctoral Fellowship (long term) at AIST Tsukuba, Japan, 2 years, 2000-2002.

·         ESF Exchange Grant, Research Centre Jülich, Germania, 3 months, 2005.

·         JSPS Invitational Fellowship AIST Tsukuba, Japan, 10 months, 2006-2007.      

·         EU Marie Curie Excellence Grant ‘NanoTechPinningHTS’ (Team Leader as grant winner), at University of Birmingham, 4 years, 2007-2011.

(i) synthesis and characterization (current-voltage characteristics, dissipation mechanisms, interaction between inter-and intra-grain vortices) of Y- and Bi-based superconducting ceramics; (ii) experimental and theoretical studies of current-induced unbinding of thermally-created vortex-antivortex pairs; (iii) fabrication and characterization of artificial superconducting superlattices; (iv) fabrication and characterization of anomalous superconductors, two- and multi-component superconductors, and exotic vortex matter; (v) study of vortex matter and dynamics by AC and DC magnetic properties measurements and by Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy; and (vi) science and technology of vortex pinning, including through self-assembling nanotechnology of pinning centres.

Condensed Matter Physics; Superconductivity; Superconducting Materials; Vortex Matter, Dynamics and Pinning; Nanotechnology of pinning centers; Nanostructured superconductors; superconducting/magnetic hybrids 

Vortices and Nanostructured Superconductors,  Springer Series in Materials Science 261 ISBN 978-3-319-59353-1, 2017

Testing Device with a radiation source. V.I. Dumitrache, C. Nica, I.A. Crisan, brevet OSIM 955/29.04.1988

2. Superconducting thin films having columnar pin retaining center using nano-dots. A. Crisan and H. Ihara, Japan Patent PCT/JP2002/006007, US Patent # 7,491,678, EU Patent EP 1 418 632 A1

3. Method for searching for material generating interband phase difference soliton. Y. Tanaka, A. Crisan, A. Iyo, Japan Patent PCT/JP2006/248579, US Patent # 7,885,696

 4. Method of generation and method of detection of interband phase difference soliton and interband phase difference circuit. Y. Tanaka, A. Iyo, A. Crisan, K. Tokiwa, T. Watanabe, N. Terada, Japan Patent PCT/JP2006/230366, US Patent # 7,522,078

Adrian Crisan obtained his M.Sc in Physics at the University of Bucharest in 1985, PhD in 1994 at İnstitute of Atomic Physics Bucharest and D.Sc. in 2013 at University of Birmingham U.K. Worked at NMP Bucharest,Unıv,Rome (1988-1989) , AIST Tsukuba Japan (2000-2002 and 2006), Unıv. Bath (2002-2004) and Unıv. Birmingham, UK (2007-2015). He has won a NATO/Royal Society Fellowship in UK, STA/JSPS short term, long term and invitational fellowships in Japan. He has won the prestigious Marie Curie Excellence Grant on a proposal regarding artificial pinning in HTS films forming and leading an MC team at Birmingham Univ. He has published over 150 papers with over 1000 citations, 3 chapters in books, edited the book’ Vortices and nanostructured Superconductors at Springer, presented a large number of invited and contributed talks in international conferences. Now Senior Scientist grade1 (Professor) at NIMP Bucharest.