| Name: | Alina-Mihaela Badescu |
| Place and birth data: | 19th of December 1982, Bucharest, Romania |
| Nationality: | Romanian |
| Work address: | Dept.Telecommunications, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania(http://www.telecom.pub.ro) |
| CAMPUS Research Center, coordinator of "Systems with Innovative Antennas Laboratory", Bucharest Romania(http://campus.pub.ro/website/systems-with-innovative-anennas) |
| E-mail address: | alinabadescu@radio.pub.ro |
| Profile on researchedid.com: | http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-6087-2012 |
| Professional Webpage: | http://campus.pub.ro/lab14/abadescu/ |
Education
| 2014 - 2015: | Postdoc researcher,Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology (E.T.T.I.), Bucharest |
| 2008 - 2011: | Ph. D. Student, E.T.T.I., Bucharest; Ph. D. thesis: Radio Techniques for cosmic particle detection |
| 2006 - 2007: | M. Sc. in Advanced Techniques in Radio Astronomy and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg |
| 2001 - 2006: | M. Sc. in Radio and Optic Communications, E.T.T.I, Bucharest |
Work experience
10.2018-ongoing EU representative for Romania, GNSS programme
11.2008-ongoing, University Politehnica of Bucharest, E.T.T.I., Bucharest (stating with 1stOctober 2016- associate professor)
10.2011-10.2014,Researcher (collaboration), “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Cosmic Rays Dept.
12.2008-11.2011, Researcher, Communications and signal processing research center, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest
09.2005-06.2006, High school no.10 for children with disabilities, Bucharest, volunteer
Academic activities
- Lecturer: “Antennas & propagation”, “Satellite Communications”, “Introduction in Radio Astronomy”; Assistant professor in: “Microwaves”, “Transmission media”, “Satellite Communications”, “Data transmissions on radio channels”, “Signal, Circuits and Systems”, “Communications Systems” etc.
- Member in the doctoral committes for: Liliana Anchidin, Madalina Algiu, Adrian Andone, Andreea Constantin, Ionut Serbanescu, Valentin Ilie, Adela Heiman
- Supervisor for more then 25 bachelor & master students’ thesis
- Coordinator of student research groups; coordinator of more than 10 papers presented in the “Student communication sessions”
- Awarded research scholarships for students (MSc and BSc) from personal research grants
- organizer of first Romanian School on “Antennas and propagation” (21-22 August 2018, Constanta)
Prizes & fellowships
- Prize “Gheorghe Cartianu” of the “Romanian Academy of Science”, 2017
- First prize “Researchers in science and Engineering”-organized by Cluj Napoca City Hall, 2016 edition
- The German Acad. Exchange Service (DAAD), Grant for researchers, (2013)
- Best paper award; “International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (ICEEI – Aug’2015)” held during 20-22, Aug’ 2015 at Colombo, Sri Lanka
- “Best young scientist” award, 21stInternational conference Radioelektronika, Brno, Czech Republic (20thApril 2011)
- Fellowship, ‘3rdInternational Summer school in Astro Particles’, Nijmegen (2009)
- Scholarship (Guest Scholarship Programme) from the Swedish Institute (2006-2008)
- UEFISCDI prizes for published articles (2013-2018) Human resources programme
Research projects
International
- project coordinator:“Radiowave propagation in heterogeneous media: implications on the electronics of Cosmic Neutrino Detectors” - ERC 2016 Starting Grants
- project coordinator: “A quintessential Universe” – research grant no 42194, financer: John Templeton Foundation (USA) (2008-2015)
National
- project partner coordinator: “Development of security applications based on the complex experimental technologies utilized in the study of cosmic radiation”, contract no. 19 PCCDI/2018, UEFISCDI
- project coordinator: “Radio frequency Instrumentation for Astroparticles’ detection”, contract no. 108/2018, UEFISCDI
- coordinator of Constantin Popa - holder of UEFISCDI “Scholarship for young researcher” (2013 competition)
Research member in:
- AugerNext–member in the research team (contract no. 1 ASPERA2 ERA-NET- FP7 project) (2012-2015)
- Detection systems for Cosmic Radiation using new technologies - PN-II Parteneriat P-82-104 / 2008 (2008-2011)
- Hybrid wireless systems with unique accessing PN-II Parteneriat P -12-126/2008(2008-2011)
- Contributions to development of processing and coding algorithms for video signals in multiuser wireless systems PNCDI II –Idei, CNCSIS 1695/2009(2009-2011)
- Real time analysis system for risk factors for medium and public health- PN-II Parteneriat P11-054 /2007(2007-2010)
Member of international collaborations and professional associations
- IEEE- Antenna and Propagation Society –Vice-president (Romania Section)- starting 2017
- Young Academy of Europe (starting 2018)
- Pierre Auger Observatory (UPB representative starting 2017)
- EuroScience; ASPERA (member)
- Graduate Women in Science(member, country representative: 2014-2016)
- Space Generation Advisory Council (member, country representative 2014-2017)
Lectures
Chair person - IEEE 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation, June 30 – July 3, 2015, Bali, Indonesia; Session "Antenna Arrays and Systems"
Chair person - IEEE 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Beijing, 27-28 Oct 2014; session "Wireless networks section"
Scientific lecture "Detection of cosmic radiation using new technologies", Seikei University (Tokyo, Japan), 24.11.2010
Scientific lecture "Studies on lateral distribution of radio signal", Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germania), 30.11.2010
Scientific lecture “Cosmic particles radio detection” (Lebedev Physics Institute-Russian Academy; National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute); 16-17 October 2017
Scientific lecture "Radio detection of cosmic particles“, Carpathian summer school of Physics, Sinaia, 07.07.2018
Scientific lecture “Antennas for Space Applications”, Summer school on Antennas and propagation, Constanta, 22.08.2018
Public outreach and public appearance
- opening talk in “Investing researchers shaping Europe’s future”, European Parliament, Brussels, 07.02.2019, https://erc.europa.eu/event/stoa-erc-event-investing-researchers-shaping-europes-future
- “Stories” interview for European Research Council, https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/stories/neutrinos-salt-mine-information
- invited guest at National Radio Channel for scientific shows
- organizer of Antenna and Propagation-Society Chapter event for networking between academia & industry (60 participants), 23.11.2017, CAMPUS Research Center, Bucharest https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8331316
- organizer of first Romanian School on “Antennas and propagation” (21-22 August 2018, Constanta), https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/172534?fbclid=IwAR22f14u55pNyq2FNASiMTAeIsQfXHUpABmVDWE2mF5wuG0konN6f4xVbFo
- founder “Space Science and applications”forum,http://campus.pub.ro/ssa/
- dissemination and evaluator of projects in the contest “Odysseus II” –April 2016, 2017 Czech Republic
- partner in organization of the contest “European Satellite Navigation Competition”, (2016, 2017)(national phase)
Certificates
Certificate of internal auditor for management in safety and quality control (2006)
Certificate for structural management (2008)
- No of articles ISI Web of Science(according to Thomson Reuters)79
- No of citations(according to Thomson Reuters) 800
- h-index(according to Thomson Reuters) 16