First name: NICOLAE-CORIOLAN
Last name: PANOIU
Date and place of birth: 5 December 1968, Orastie, Romania
Nationality: Romanian

Present address:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Optical Devices and Systems Laboratory
University College London
Torrington Place
London, WC1E 7JE, UK

Degrees:

1987 - 1992 University of Bucharest, Romania
MS in Theoretical Physics, 1992
BS in Physics, 1990
1992 - 1995 Department of Theoretical Physics, National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering "Horia Hulubei"
POB MG-6
Bucharest, ROMANIA

1995 - 2001, New York University, Department of Physics, New York, NY
MS in Theoretical Physics, 1997
PhD in Physics (2001)

Research experience:

New York University, Department of Physics, New York, NY
1996 - 2001 :Modeled stochastic processes in chaotic systems. Developed software for serial and parallel supercomputers for numerical simulations of the dynamics of chaotic systems.

Institute of Atomic Physics, Department of Theoretical Physics
1992 - 1995: Studied the propagation of temporal solitons in optical fibers, the integrability of matematical models which describe wave propagation in nonlinear media.

Teaching experience

New York University, Department of Physics, New York, NY
1997 - 2001: Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics
undergraduate level: Physics I, Physics II
advanced undergraduate level: Quantum Mechanics
graduate level: Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Physics
1996 - 2001:Tutor at School of Education, Heigher Education Opportunity Program

Computer Skills:

• Programming - C++, C, PowerC, Java, MPI, Fortran
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows
• Mathematical Packages - Matlab, Mathematica
• Familiar with both paradigms in programming: serial and parallel
• Numerical Methods - integration of ODE's and stochastic ODE's, Monte Carlo simulations, finite difference methods (Crank-Nicholson)

Awards

• McCracken Fellowship, New York University, 1995 - 1998
• Meyer Fellowship,New York University, Department of Physics, 1995 - 1998