Gheorghe Maria

Background

Maria, Gheorghe was born on October 2, 1955 in Fundeni, Romania. Arrived in Switzerland, 1992. Son of Constantin and Angela (Burghel) Maria.

Education

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic University Bucharest, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic University Bucharest, 1987.

Career

In-stage chemical engineer Chemical Enterprises, Bucharest, 1979-1982. Research engineer Chemical & Bio-chemical Energetics Institute, 1982-1990. Assistant professor Polytechnic University Bucharest, 1990-1991, associate professor, 1997-1999, professor, since 1999.

Assistant professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1992-1996. Reviewer Computers & Chemical Engineering. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Dr. Gheorghe Maria is currently professor in Chemical & Biochemical Reaction Engineering with the UPB - University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania). He received the PhD in 1987 in chemical engineering at UPB (supervisor Prof. Dr. ing. Raul Mihail). On 1982 he joined ICECHIM (catalysis, and chemical & biochemical energetics Institute, as a senior researcher), and on 1990 he joined UPB as a lecturer. On 1992 he come in Switzerland for working as Assistant Professor with ETH Zürich (with the late Prof. David W.T. Rippin group of Process System Engineering). On 1997 he return to Romania becoming Associate Professor and then full Professor (1999) with UPB.
  
  His research interests concern the fields of (bio)chemical reactor and kinetic modelling, biochemical engineering and bioinformatics, risk analysis of chemical plants, modelling of cell metabolic processes, gene expression and regulatory circuits, and drug release kinetics.
  
  Over the past 25 years he participated to various national or intl. Projects (more than 15), making short research stages/visitingship at ETH Zürich (3-months on 1997, SNSF fellow on environmental risk analysis), Univ. des Saarlandes (3-months on 1999, DAAD fellow on modelling complex enzymatic kinetics), TU Erlangen (3-months on 2000, catalytic membrane reactors), Texas A&M University (2002-2003, res. scientist on modelling gene expression and gene regulatory networks, synthetic biology), TU Braunschweig (2006) and TU Hamburg (3-months on 2009, DFG and DAAD fellows on simulating bacteria resistance to environmental pollutants), Tianjin Inst. Ind. Biotechnology China (2-months on 2010, in-silico searching for gene knockout strategies for E. coli cell, synthetic biology).
  
  He presented more than 31 invited Lectures at various Universities in EU, CAN, USA, China (among them: Princeton Univ. 1994, Texas A&M University 2002, EPFL Lausanne 1997, Queen’s Univ. Kingston 1994 Canada, BASF Ludwigshafen 1996).
  
  He authored 6 books, 5 teaching books, 6 book chapters, 131 papers in peer reviewed ISI international journals and univ. journals, and 77 in intl. conference proceedings, with more than 1040 citations (h-index 17 and i10 index 37; ResearchGate score = 34.79). Among them, 29 papers have been published in Chem. Eng. journals with the highest IF³3. According to the Romanian ranking system, he reported high scores signing NP=97 ISI papers as principal author, with a cummultative impact factor of FIC= 135.04, and more than 1040 citations (Googleschoolar).
  
  He is a reviewer for many (bio)chemical engineering journals (25). He co-chaired or was member of the organizing Committees of 16 international conferences Among them: 5th Int. Conference on Computational Bioengineering (ICCB-5), 11-13 September, 2013, Leuven, Belgium; ROMPHYSCHEM-15, 15-th International Conference of Physical Chemistry, 11-13 September, 2013, Bucharest; 13th Edition of Academic Days of Timisoara, June 13-14, 2013, Timişoara (Romania); ELSEDIMA 10th and 11th International Conference (Environmental Legislation, Safety Engineering and Disaster Management), 18-19 September 2014 and 26-28 May 2016, Cluj-Napoca (RO).
  
  On 1985 he award the Prize of the Romanian Academy for kinetic studies and scalep / plant design of the methanol-to-gasoline process at Brazi petrochemical works.
  
  He is member in the scientific/editorial board of Chem. & Biochemical Eng. Q. (Zagreb), Revista de Chimie (Bucharest), The Scientific Bulletin of University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bulletin of Romanian Chemical Engineering Society, ECOTERRA Journal of Environmental Research and Protection (edited by Romanian Society of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Cluj-Napoca Romania). He was also an expert for various EU and national research programs, being also a PhD supervisor at UPB (from 2008, in Chem. & Biochem. Engineering topics), with 5 PhDs finalized, and 4 PhDs in progress. He participated as researcher or director to a large number (>30) of national and international grants.
  
  

Works

More photos

• book

  • gheorghemariasite

    (Personal Web page Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Maria)

    2017

  • Modelarea statistică şi estimarea parametrilor proceselor chimice (Statistical Modelling and Estimation of Chemical Process Models),

    (Iordache, O., Maria, G., Corbu, S., Modelarea statistică ...)

    1991

  • Evaluarea cantitativă a riscului proceselor chimice şi modelarea consecinţelor accidentelor (Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis and Modelling of Accident Consequences)

    (2. Maria, G., Evaluarea cantitativă a riscului proceselor...)

    2007

  • Analiza statistică şi corelarea datelor experimentale (bio)chimice. Repartiţii şi estimatori statistici (Statistical data analysis and correlations. Distributions and estimators),

    (3. Maria, G., Analiza statistică şi corelarea datelor exp...)

    2008

  • Tehnici de modelare cinetică şi de proiectare in-silico a structurilor mezoporoase funcţionalizate la eliberarea controlată de principii biologic active (Kinetic models for the in-silico design of functionalized mesoporous supports for the controlled release of biological active principles),

    (4. Maria, G., Luta, I., Tehnici de modelare cinetică şi d...)

    2015

  • Estimarea parametrilor modelelor cinetice ale proceselor (bio)chimice, Parameter estimation of the (Bio)chemical process kinetic models,

    (5. Maria, G., Crisan, M., Maria, C., Estimarea parametril...)

    2016

Interests

• Travel.
  
  chess

• Politicians

  Mihai Viteazul

• Writers

  Marin Preda

• Artists

  Kandinsky, Monet, Degas

• Sport & Clubs

  chess

• Music & Bands

  Chopin, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Debussy

Connections

Married Cristina Popovici, August 16, 1985.

Father:

Constantin Maria

Father:

Maria Constantin

Father:

Maria Constantin

Mother:

Angela (Burghel) Maria

Mother:

Maria Angela

Spouse:

Cristina Popovici

National Institute for Environment Protection Bucharest, Romania

Spouse:

Maria Cristina

xmass 2009

Sister:

Tociu Carmen

National Inst. for Environment Protection Bucharest, Romania

niece:

Maria Mihaela

nephew:

Tociu Andrei

Brother:

Maria Mircea

References

• gheorghemariasite Personal Web page Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Maria
  2017
• Bull. Romanian Soc. Chem. Eng., 2016, vo.3, no. 2 Personalities in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Professor Gheorghe Maria, pp. 88-93.
  2016
• interview 1974 revista Flacara Eugen Seceleanu, Evenimente mari, evenimente mici, Eminescu Publ., Bucharest, 1982, pp. 126-130.
  1982
• interview revista Flacara Eugen Seceleanu, Evenimente mari, evenimente mici, Eminescu Publ., Bucharest, 1982, pp. 126-130.
  1982