Biography:Catalina Curceanu

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Catalina Curceanu
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Curceanu speaking at the Libreria Assaggi in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
CERN
Scientific career
InstitutionsIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Cătălina Oana Curceanu[1] is a Romanian physicist and lead researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. She researches low energy quantum chromodynamics.

Early life and education

Curceanu was born in Transylvania.[1] She became interested in science as a child, and applied to the Mathematics and Physics Lyceum at Magurele in Bucharest.[2] She attributes her passion for physics to her very skilled teachers.[3] She studied physics at the University of Bucharest and graduated as a Valedictorian.[1][4] She carried out her doctoral research using the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at CERN on the OBELIX experiment.[5] She earned her PhD from the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering.[6]

Research and career

In 1992 Curceanu joined the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.[1] She uses the DAFNE (DAΦNE) collider at Frascati.[1] She is part of the VIP2 experiment (Violation of the Pauli Principle) in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.[7][8] In 2010 she was awarded Personality of the Year by the Romanian Academy in Rome.[9][10] She works at CERN on the OBELIX experiment, looking for Exotic mesons, and DIRAC, looking for exotic pionium.[2] File:Intervista di Alessandra de Vitis (WikiDonne) a Cătălina Curceanu.ogg She published the popular science book Dai Buchi Neri all’adroterapia. Un Viaggio nella Fisica Moderna in 2013 with Springer.[11] The book considers concepts of modern physics, including; the standard model, black holes and neutrinos.[11] In 2015 she was awarded a $85,000 grant from FQXI and the John Templeton Foundations for her quantum physics research.[1][12] Her proposal considered collapse models and the measurement problem.[13] She used an ultrapure germanium detector to test the radiation it emits.[14] Her recent work involves the SIDDHARTA experiment, looking at the strong interaction and strangeness.[15][16]

Curceanu was the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics lecturer in 2016.[17] In her lectures she asked "Quo Vadis the Universe'".[18] She has spoken about quantum computers at TEDx Brașov and TEDx Cluj-Napoca.[19][20] She won the 2017 European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics for her contributions to low-energy QCD.[21] She won a Visiting International Scholar Award from the University of Wollongong in 2017, researching detector systems for high precision spectroscopy in fundamental physics.[22] She is involved with several outreach and education activities.[4][6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 RSPE, Director; director@physics.anu.edu.au. "Event - Catalina Curceanu - The Standard Model of elementary particle physics: how well do we understand the Universe? - RSPE - ANU" (in en). https://physics.anu.edu.au/events/?EventID=498. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Global News, Romanian. "Interviu cu dr. Cătălina Oana Curceanu – organizator al celui de al XXXIX-lea Congres al Academiei Româno-Americane | Analize / Interviuri" (in ro-ro). http://www.rgnpress.ro/rgn_14/categorii/analize-interviuri/18103-interviu-cu-dr-ctlina-oana-curceanu--organizator-al-celui-de-al-xxxix-lea-congres-al-academiei-romano-americane.html. 
  3. ↑ Teodorescu, Daniela Palade. "Cătălina Oana Curceanu - "În cercetare nu există orar de lucru, ci doar bucuria descoperirii"" (in ro). https://www.cariereonline.ro/leadership/work-life-choices/catalina-oana-curceanu-in-cercetare-nu-exista-orar-de-lucru-ci-doar. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Space time travel through the fascinating world of nuclear particles alongside the researcher Cătălina Curceanu | Romania in Contact" (in en-US). http://www.romaniaincontact.com/en/2014/05/20/catalina-curceanu/. 
  5. ↑ "LNF/IDF". https://www.lnf.infn.it/edu/incontri/relatori/curceanu1.html. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Cambridge Scholars Publishing". http://www.cambridgescholars.com/t/AdvisoryBoardCatalina. 
  7. ↑ Marton, Johann; Bartalucci, S.; Bassi, A.; Bazzi, M.; Bertolucci, S.; Berucci, C.; Bragadireanu, M.; Cargnelli, M.; Clozza, A. (2017-03-29). "Underground test of quantum mechanics - the VIP2 experiment". arXiv:1703.10055 [quant-ph].
  8. ↑ Pichler, A.; Bartalucci, S.; Bazzi, M.; Bertolucci, S.; Berucci, C.; Bragadireanu, M.; Cargnelli, M.; Clozza, A. et al. (2016-06-09). "Application of photon detectors in the VIP2 experiment to test the Pauli Exclusion Principle". J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 718 (5): 052030. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/718/5/052030. Bibcode: 2016JPhCS.718e2030P. http://inspirehep.net/record/1419112/citations. 
  9. ↑ "Un nou premiu prestigios pentru cercetătoarea Cătălina Curceanu | Accent Montreal" (in ro-RO). 7 April 2017. http://accentmontreal.com/un-nou-premiu-prestigios-pentru-cercetatoarea-catalina-curceanu/. 
  10. ↑ "Romanians and Italians rewarded at Celebrity Gala Awards in Rome - Financiarul.ro" (in ro-RO). Financiarul.ro. 2010-11-02. http://financiarul.ro/2010/11/02/romanians-and-italians-rewarded-at-celebrity-gala-awards-in-rome/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 (in en) Dai buchi neri all'adroterapia - Un viaggio nella Fisica Moderna | Catalina Oana Curceanu | Springer. I blu. Springer. 2013. ISBN 9788847052406. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9788847052406. 
  12. ↑ "INFN: Catalina Curceanu awarded by Templeton Foundation" (in en-US). ResearchItaly - INFN: Catalina Curceanu awarded by Templeton Foundation. https://www.researchitaly.it/en/news/infn-catalina-curceanu-awarded-by-templeton-foundation/. 
  13. ↑ "FQXi - Foundational Questions Institute" (in en-US). https://fqxi.org/grants/large/awardees/view/__details/2015/curceanu. 
  14. ↑ "Collapsing Physics: Q&A with Catalina Oana Curceanu" (in en-US). 24 May 2016. https://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/212. 
  15. ↑ "Two lectures from distinguished physicist exploring strange and impossible phenomena | ANSTO" (in en). https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/two-lectures-from-distinguished-physicist-exploring-strange-and-impossible-phenomena. 
  16. ↑ Curceanu, Catalina (2012-11-22). "DEAR and SIDDHARTA collaborations". http://www0.mi.infn.it/~crespi/ita_giap_pdf/curceanu.pdf. 
  17. ↑ "Fearless physics: Catalina Curceanu, WIP Lecturer | e-EPS" (in en-US). http://www.epsnews.eu/2016/05/fearless-physics-catalina-curceanu-wip-lecturer/. 
  18. ↑ Helen (2016-06-28). "Women In Physics - Australia: Be curious! Introducing Prof Catalina Curceanu our 2016 Women in Physics Lecture". http://womeninphysicsoz.blogspot.com/2016/06/be-curious-introducing-prof-catalina_28.html. 
  19. ↑ TEDx Talks (2017-12-01), How Quantum Computers Work? | Catalina Curceanu | TEDxBrașov, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhmdaXnueh0, retrieved 2018-08-09 
  20. ↑ TEDx Talks (2018-06-27), How quantum computers work | Cătălina Curceanu | TEDxCluj, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xHVcKeuF5o, retrieved 2018-08-09 
  21. ↑ "EPS PRIZE FOR PHYSICS "EMMY NOETHER" GOES TO CATALINA CURCEANU | INFN-LNF" (in en-US). 21 June 2017. http://w3.lnf.infn.it/eps-prize-for-physics-emmy-noether-goes-to-catalina-curceanu/?lang=en. 
  22. ↑ "Recipients" (in en-au). https://www.uow.edu.au/research/researchgrants/visaprogram/UOW190234.html. 



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