Dr. Mircea Modreanu
Mircea Modreanu received an M.Sc. (1993) and a Ph.D. (2002) in Condensed Matter Physics from the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania. From 1993 until 2002 he was working as a Senior Researcher in National Institute for Microtechnologies IMT-Bucharest, Romania. In 2002 he has joined Tyndall National Institute-University College Cork, Ireland currently working as Principal Investigator in the Micro & Nano Systems Centre. In the last decade he has received professor fellowships from INPG-PHELMA, France, and from Japan Society for Promotion of Science( JSPS), Japan.
Mircea Modreanu has extensive expertise in the development of nanomaterials development for micro-nano electronics, nanophotonics, and RF/microwave/millimeter-wave/ systems for targeted wireless/energy-harvesting application. In addition he is recognized worldwide for his contribution for the development of optical spectroscopies for advance material and devices characterization. Since 2002 he has organize 10 international conferences in the area of optical and X-ray metrology for advanced material and devices, eight in Europe and two in Japan. Currently, he is the Project Coordinator of European Innovation Council FETProactive project “Nanomaterials Enabling Smart Energy Harvesting For Next-Generation Internet-Of-Things” ( NANO-EH, www.nano-eh.eu) in response to the call FET Proactive call “Breakthrough zero-emissions energy generation for full decarbonization”. He was awarded the 7 EC research grants and 3 Irish research grants to date and beyond the NANO-EH project he is currently Tyndall’s PI in three other EC-funded research grants. He has co-authored over 170 per-review publications in ISI-ranked journals, he has given over 30 invited talks and he has three patent pending applications.