CURRICULUM VITAE
 

1. Name and surname: VIOREL CHIHAIA

2. Date of birth: November 23th 1964

3. Nationality: Romanian

4. Post Address: VIOREL CHIHAIA Romanian Academy,
                             Institute of Physical Chemistry "I.G.Murgulescu, Romanian Academy
                              " Surface Chemistry & Catalysis Laboratory
                             Spl. Independentei 202, Bucharest, 77208, Romania.
                             e-mail: vchihaia@chimfiz.icf.ro, vchihaia@hotmail.com

5. Educational Qualification
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Class  Subject                                                                                 Institution                                              Year
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B.S.        "Semiempirical Calculation                                            University of                                           1989
                Methods of MO. Applications for AB2                        Bucharest,
                AB3 and AB4 Molecules "
Ph.D.     "Simulation at Atomic Scale of Surface Processes.      Institute of Physiscal Chemistry          1999
                Hydrogen Interaction with MgO(001) Surface"           Of Romanian Academy
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6. Experience and Ability:
 

  • General solid state physics and chemistry background
  • Classical and Quantum mechanics of atomic scattering theory
  • Computational modeling in the area of solid state chemistry, in special in surface science and on problems related to catalysis
  • Study of the Formation and Growth of Atomic Clusters
  • Atomic Scale Simulation: -First Principles (DFT & HFT), Semiempirical (Tight-Binding, CNDO, INDO, MNDO ...) Methods and Molecular Mechanics; applications of combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods

    •  (GAMESS,  GAUSSIAN xx,  MICROMOL,  DeFT,  PPITEREX, BIGICON, CNINDO, MOPAC, HYPERCHEM, PCMODEL .... )
     -Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations
     -Vizualisation and Building of Large Molecular Structure
     -Modeling of the Periodic Structures pure and with Defects in bulk and on the surface. CLUSTER and SLAB methods with different embedding technics.
     (CRYSTAL 95 EMBED 96)
     - Quantitative Structure Properties Relationships (QSPR).
  • Good computer skills (DOS, WINDOWS and Unix/Linux)

    •   -Programming and developing of the computer chemistry software in FORTRAN, C, Pascal. In UNIX the shells: bash, cs, csh, ksh,
         and (g)awk   interpretor.
      -Knowledge of mathematical programs (Origin, Derive, Matlab, EasyPlot ...) and SQL/relational database (Excell, FoxPro)
      -Good knowledge of the FTP, TELNET, ARCHIE, SSH and other INTERNET applications. HTML page design.
  • The elaboration and industrial controls of the Ferrites

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    7. Present Position:
        Working as a junior researcher in Surface Chemistry & Catalysis Laboratory,
        Institute of Physical Chemistry "I.G. Murgulescu", Romanian Academy.

    8. Affiliated to the        Romanian Society of Catalysis,
                                            Bulgarian Club of Catalysis.