October 2007 - September 2012
Doctor in Science / Field: Physics
Modelling the structure of carbon, silicon and chalcogenide nanomaterials
Doctoral School of Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania

September 1989 - June 1994
Licentiate Diploma in Physics (the overall average 8.81)
Solid State Physics
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania

March 2017 - present
Scientific Researcher II
- Understanding  the  effects  of  thermal  annealing on phase change chalcogenides materials for memory devices with multiple states.
- Synthesis and characterization of 2D metal-chalcogenides
- Development of chemical and physical vapor transport deposition tools for obtaining 2D metal-chalcogenides.

October 2016 – February 2017
Scientific Researcher III
-    Understanding the thermal annealing process on phase change chalcogenides materials for memory devices with multiple states.

July 2003 – September 2016
Scientific Researcher
-    Investigation of structure of amorphous and polycrystalline materials by X-ray diffraction.
-    Computer modeling of the structure of nanomaterials: amorphous chalcogenides, nanocarbons, amorphous metals, amorphous semiconductors.
-    Investigation of thermal and light-induced metals diffusion in amorphous chalcogenides.

May 1994 - June 2003  
Researcher Assistant
-    Investigation of structure of amorphous and polycrystalline materials by X-ray diffraction.
-    Computer modeling of the structure of amorphous chalcogenides and amorphous silicon thin films.
-    Measurement of microhardness of materials.
-    Preparation of non-crystalline chalcogenide materials.