Plenary speakers

Bogdan Simionescu is Vice President of the Romanian Academy, professor at "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi and Senior scientific researcher at Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Iasi. Prof. Simionescu is a specialist of block copolymers and macromolecular architectures with innovative applications. Together with his group, he is also interest by the development of combined polymer synthesis techniques.
Editorial Activities: 1978 – present, scientific secretary of the "Memoriile Sectiilor Stiintifice" (Romanian Academy); 1990 – present, member of the European Association of Science Editors; 2001 – present, member of the Editorial Board of "Revue Roumaine de Chimie" (Romanian Academy); 2004 – 2009, member of the Editorial Board of "Carbohydrate Polymers"; 2005 – present, member of Editorial Board of “Materiale Plastice”; 2007 – present, member of the Editorial Board of “Fungi and Mycotoxins”; 2007 – present, member of the Editorial Board of “Environmental Engineering and Management Journal”.
Publications: Papers: more than 300 papers (more than 250 papers in international journals); Books: 2 books (in cooperation), book chapters; Citations: more than 1300; More than 100 invited lectures in Europe, USA, Canada, and Japan.
Research Interests:
• radical polymerization and copolymerization;
• plasma-induced polymerization;
• unconventional polymerization reactions;
• solution properties of ultrahigh molecular weight polymers;
• polysiloxanes;
• block copolymers;
• macromolecular architectures.