CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Name and surname: VIOREL CHIHAIA
2. Date of birth: November 23th 1964
3. Nationality: Romanian
4. Post Address: VIOREL CHIHAIA Romanian Academy,
Institute of Physical Chemistry "I.G.Murgulescu, Romanian Academy
" Surface Chemistry & Catalysis Laboratory
Spl. Independentei 202, Bucharest, 77208, Romania.
e-mail: vchihaia@chimfiz.icf.ro, vchihaia@hotmail.com
5. Educational Qualification
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Class
Subject
Institution
Year
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B.S. "Semiempirical
Calculation
University
of
1989
Methods of MO. Applications for
AB2
Bucharest,
AB3 and AB4 Molecules "
Ph.D. "Simulation at Atomic Scale of Surface
Processes. Institute of Physiscal
Chemistry
1999
Hydrogen Interaction with MgO(001)
Surface" of Romanian
Academy
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6. Experience and Ability:
General solid state physics and chemistry background
Classical and Quantum mechanics of atomic scattering theory
Computational modeling in the area of solid state chemistry, in special in surface science and on problems related to catalysis
Study of the Formation and Growth of Atomic Clusters
Atomic Scale Simulation:
-First Principles (DFT & HFT), Semiempirical (Tight-Binding, CNDO, INDO, MNDO ...)
- Methods and Molecular Mechanics; applications of combined quantum mechanical and
molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods
(GAMESS, GAUSSIAN xx, MICROMOL, DeFT, PPITEREX, BIGICON,
CNINDO, MOPAC, HYPERCHEM, PCMODEL .... )
-Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations
-Vizualisation and Building of Large Molecular Structure
-Modeling of the Periodic Structures pure and with Defects in bulk and on the
surface. CLUSTER and SLAB methods with different embedding technics (CRYSTAL 95 EMBED
96)
- Quantitative Structure Properties Relationships (QSPR). Good computer skills (DOS,
WINDOWS and Unix/Linux)
Programming and developing of the computer chemistry software in FORTRAN, C, Pascal. In
UNIX the shells: bash, cs, csh, ksh and (g)awk interpretor.
Knowledge of mathematical programs (Origin, Derive, Matlab, EasyPlot ...) and
SQL/relational database (Excell, FoxPro)
Good knowledge of the FTP, TELNET, ARCHIE, SSH and other INTERNET applications. HTML page
design.
The elaboration and industrial controls of the Ferrites
7. Present Position:
Working as a junior researcher in Surface Chemistry & Catalysis
Laboratory,
Institute of Physical Chemistry "I.G. Murgulescu", Romanian
Academy.
8. Affiliated to the Romanian Society of
Catalysis,
Bulgarian Club of Catalysis.