CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: MIHALACHE DUMITRU
Date and place of birth: 1948, June 24, Valcelele, Arges County, Romania
Address: Bucharest, Romania
Studies: Faculty of Physics, Theoretical Physics, University of Bucharest (1971); Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest (1977)
Scientific Title: Ph.D. in Physics (1986), Thesis: "Interaction of coherent radiation with some atomic systems", Supervisor: Prof. M. Ivascu

Foreign Languages: English, Russian

Position: Senior Researcher 1'st degree, Department of Theoretical Physics, "Horia Hulubei" National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

Scientific Awards:

• Elected Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy (September 2014)
• Elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) (October 2012)
• "Galileo Galilei" Award of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) - 2009
• "Constantin Miculescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy - 1985
• 2003-2005: Recipient of a "Distinguished Fellowship" awarded by Catalan Institute of Advanced Study, (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
• 2002: Recipient of a "Distinguished Fellowship" awarded by IBERDROLA S. A. (SPAIN) in the framework of "Programa Profesores Visitantes de Ciencia y Tecnologia".
• February-October 1998: Recipient of a "NATO Science Fellowship" at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

Specialization field: Theoretical Physics, Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics
Main areas of scientific activity:

• Nonlinear guided waves, linear and nonlinear surface plasmon polaritons
• Guided waves in birefringent media
• Optical surface solitons
• Spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal optical solitons
• Vortex solitons in conservative and dissipative media
• Solitons and vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
• Few-optical-cycle solitons
• Rogue waves

Highlighted achievements:

• Comprehensive studies of existence and stability of nonlinear surface and guided waves in planar layered structures and the prediction of power thresholds for the formation of optical surface solitons: D. Mihalache, M. Bertolotti, and C. Sibilia, Progress in Optics 27, 229-313 (1989)
• Comprehensive studies of existence, stability, and robustness of spatiotemporal optical solitons: B. A. Malomed, D. Mihalache, F. Wise, and L. Torner, Journal of Optics B: Quantum Semiclassical Optics 7, R53-R72 (2005), and D. Mihalache et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 073902 (2002).
• Theoretical studies of few-optical cycle pulses in co-operation with Prof. H. Leblond (Univ. Angers, Angers, France): H. Leblond and D. Mihalache, Phys. Reports 523, 61-126 (2013); H. Leblond and D. Mihalache, Phys. Rev. A 79, 063835 (2009); H. Leblond, D. Kremer, and D. Mihalache, Phys. Rev. A 80, 053812 (2009); H. Leblond, D. Kremer, and D. Mihalache, Phys. Rev. A 81, 033824 (2010); H. Leblond and D. Mihalache, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063815 (2010).
• Studies of Bose-Einstein condensates, see the review article: Bose-Einstein condensation: Twenty years after: V .S. Bagnato, D. J. Frantzeskakis, P. G. Kevrekidis, B. A. Malomed, and D. Mihalache, Rom. Rep. Phys. 67, 5-50 (2015).
• Rogue waves in scalar, vector and multidimensional systems: S. Chen, F. Baronio, J.M. Soto-Crespo, P. Grelu, and D. Mihalache, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50, 463001 (2017).

Didactic activities:

• PhD thesis supervisor in "Physics" (since 1991): served as PhD thesis advisor or mentor to several young researchers: Dr. Daniel-Marian Baboiu (University of Central Florida College of Optics, USA), Dr. Lucian-Cornel Crasovan (ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona), Prof. Dr. N. Truta (Technical University of Bucharest), Dr. Mariana Ciumac (University of Texas at Arlington), Dr. Florin Moldoveanu (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), and Dr. Nicolae C. Panoiu (New York University, Columbia University, USA, and University College, London)
• Co-organizer of a DAAD (Bonn, Germany) Summer School "Trends in Contemporary Optics" (25 Sept.-8 Oct. 2005, Sinaia, Romania)

International cooperations:

• Italy: Sezione Fisica, Dipartimento di Energetica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", October 1986 (one month) and April 1990 (one month), supported by Rome University, cooperation with Prof. M. Bertolotti (nonlinear surface waves).
• England: Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Salford University, Salford, and Department of Physics, Heriott Watt University, Edinburgh, October 1988 (one month), supported by the British Council, cooperation with Prof. A. D. Boardman (nonlinear guided waves).
• Germany: Institute of Solid State Theory and Theoretical Optics, Department of Physics, Jena University, Jena, supported by German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD) and by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), cooperation with Prof. F. Lederer (surface plasmon polaritons, temporal and spatial optical solitons)
• Spain: Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, supported by Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, and Catalan Institution of Advanced Studies, Barcelona, cooperation with Prof. L. Torner (spatiotemporal optical solitons).
• Israel: Tel Aviv University, cooperation with Prof. Boris A. Malomed (solitons and vortices in optics and Bose-Einstein condensates)
• Australia: Australian National University, cooperation with Prof. Yuri S. Kivshar (spatiotemporal optical solitons in photonic lattices)
• France: Angers University, cooperation with Prof. H. Leblond (Quantum Optics, Nonlinear Optics, Ginzburg-Landau optical solitons, few-optical-cycle solitons)

Publications:

• Papers published in Web of Science indexed journals: over 360
• Book chapters: 8
• Book: 1

Citations: over 7300 Web of Science citations (excluding self-citations), Hirsch index h=57 (Web of Science), h=58 (SCOPUS), h=62 (Google Academic)

Other mentions:

• Referee to archival journals: "Nature Communications", "Physical Review Letters", "Physical Review A, E", "Optics Letters", "Optics Express", "Journal of the Optical Society of America A, B", "Journal of Optics", "IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics", "IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","IEEE Photonics Technology Letters", "Physics Letters A", "Optics Communications", "Optical and Quantum Electronics", "J. Phys A, B", "Chinese Optics Letters", "Europhysics Letters (EPL)", "Scientific Reports", etc.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the International Conference in Optics (ROMOPTO-1994, -1997, -2000, and -2003, -2006, -2009, -2012, and -2015), Bucharest, Constanta, Sibiu, Romania.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the VII and IX, and X International Workshop on "Nonlinear Optics Applications", NOA 2004, NOA 2007, and NOA 2009, Poland.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the SPIE-Europe Congress on "Optics and Optoelectronics", "Nonlinear Optics Applications", NOA2005, Warsaw, 28 Aug.-2 Sept. 2005.

• Elected Full Member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists (2011)
• Member of the Romanian Physical Society (1990--)
• Member of the European Optical Society (EOS) (2010--)
• Member of the European Physical Society (EPS) (2012--)
• Topical Editor of "Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A" (2011--2018)
• Member of the Editorial Board of "Romanian Reports in Physics" (2003--2018), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of  "Romanian Reports in Physics" since 2018
• Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of "Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials-Rapid Communications" (2007--2014)
• Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of "Optics Communications" (1997-- 2003)

Date: updated January 2020