Catalina Curceanu | |
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![]() Curceanu speaking at the Libreria Assaggi in 2015 | |
Alma mater |
University of Bucharest CERN |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare |
Cătălina Oana Curceanu [1] is a Romanian physicist and lead researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. She researches low energy quantum chromodynamics.
Curceanu was born in Transylvania. [1] She became interested in science as a child, and applied to the Mathematics and Physics Lyceum at Magurele in Bucharest. [2] She attributes her passion for physics to her very skilled teachers. [3] She studied physics at the University of Bucharest and graduated as a Valedictorian. [1] [4] She carried out her doctoral research using the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at CERN on the OBELIX experiment. [5] She earned her PhD from the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. [6]
In 1992 Curceanu joined the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. [1] She uses the DAFNE (DAΦNE) collider at Frascati. [1] She is part of the VIP2 experiment (Violation of the Pauli Principle) in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. [7] [8] In 2010 she was awarded Personality of the Year by the Romanian Academy in Rome. [9] [10] She works at CERN on the OBELIX experiment, looking for Exotic mesons, and DIRAC, looking for exotic pionium. [2]
She published the popular science book Dai Buchi Neri all’adroterapia. Un Viaggio nella Fisica Moderna in 2013 with Springer. [11] The book considers concepts of modern physics, including; the standard model, black holes and neutrinos. [11] In 2015 she was awarded a $85,000 grant from FQXI and the John Templeton Foundations for her quantum physics research. [1] [12] Her proposal considered collapse models and the measurement problem. [13] She used an ultrapure germanium detector to test the radiation it emits. [14] Her recent work involves the SIDDHARTA experiment, looking at the strong interaction and strangeness. [15] [16]
Curceanu was the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics lecturer in 2016. [17] In her lectures she asked "Quo Vadis the Universe'". [18] She has spoken about quantum computers at TEDx Brașov and TEDx Cluj-Napoca. [19] [20] She won the 2017 European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics for her contributions to low-energy QCD. [21] She won a Visiting International Scholar Award from the University of Wollongong in 2017, researching detector systems for high precision spectroscopy in fundamental physics. [22] She is involved with several outreach and education activities. [4] [6]
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Catalina Curceanu | |
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![]() Curceanu speaking at the Libreria Assaggi in 2015 | |
Alma mater |
University of Bucharest CERN |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare |
Cătălina Oana Curceanu [1] is a Romanian physicist and lead researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. She researches low energy quantum chromodynamics.
Curceanu was born in Transylvania. [1] She became interested in science as a child, and applied to the Mathematics and Physics Lyceum at Magurele in Bucharest. [2] She attributes her passion for physics to her very skilled teachers. [3] She studied physics at the University of Bucharest and graduated as a Valedictorian. [1] [4] She carried out her doctoral research using the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at CERN on the OBELIX experiment. [5] She earned her PhD from the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering. [6]
In 1992 Curceanu joined the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. [1] She uses the DAFNE (DAΦNE) collider at Frascati. [1] She is part of the VIP2 experiment (Violation of the Pauli Principle) in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. [7] [8] In 2010 she was awarded Personality of the Year by the Romanian Academy in Rome. [9] [10] She works at CERN on the OBELIX experiment, looking for Exotic mesons, and DIRAC, looking for exotic pionium. [2]
She published the popular science book Dai Buchi Neri all’adroterapia. Un Viaggio nella Fisica Moderna in 2013 with Springer. [11] The book considers concepts of modern physics, including; the standard model, black holes and neutrinos. [11] In 2015 she was awarded a $85,000 grant from FQXI and the John Templeton Foundations for her quantum physics research. [1] [12] Her proposal considered collapse models and the measurement problem. [13] She used an ultrapure germanium detector to test the radiation it emits. [14] Her recent work involves the SIDDHARTA experiment, looking at the strong interaction and strangeness. [15] [16]
Curceanu was the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics lecturer in 2016. [17] In her lectures she asked "Quo Vadis the Universe'". [18] She has spoken about quantum computers at TEDx Brașov and TEDx Cluj-Napoca. [19] [20] She won the 2017 European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics for her contributions to low-energy QCD. [21] She won a Visiting International Scholar Award from the University of Wollongong in 2017, researching detector systems for high precision spectroscopy in fundamental physics. [22] She is involved with several outreach and education activities. [4] [6]
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