Education
- 2010 – HdR (Habilitation to conduct Research, Earth Sciences), Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
- 2003 – Ph.D. (Material Physics), Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 2002 – M.Sc. (Material Physics), Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1997 – B.Sc. (Geology and Geophysics), Bucharest University, Bucharest, Romania
Positions
- 2014 – : Senior Researcher (DR2), CNRS, Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
- 2017 – : Professor II, The Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 2007-2014 : Researcher (CR1), CNRS, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
- 2007-2008 : Humboldt Fellow, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- 2006-2007 : Visiting Researcher, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- 2004-2006 : Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
- 2003-2004 : Post-doctoral/Research associate, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 1997-2003 : Teaching assistant, Catholic University of Louvain, Faculty of Sciences, Geology Dept., Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1995-1997 : Research assistant, Bucharest University, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, Mineralogy Dept., Bucharest, Romania
- 2007-2010 : Visiting Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
Major Awards
- Ad-Astra Award for excellence in Research, Earth and Space Sciences, 2016
- ERC Consolidator Grant “IMPACT: The Giant Impact and the Earth and Moon Formation”, 2015
- Research Excellence Medal of the European Mineralogical Union, 2013
- Prix Henri Buttgenbach, 2012, Academie Royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Humboldt Fellowship, 2007, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
Scientific production
- Scientific publications: 100, with a total of 9400+ citations, 30 h-index, 61 i-10 index (acc. to Google Scholar); 6900+ citations, 26 h-index (acc. to Web of Science)
- Patents: 3
- Oral presentations: 189 (out of which 82 invited)
- Co-organized meetings, workshops, and schools: 9
Scientific outreach