Ion Tiginyanu#
| Membership Number: | 5565 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | MOLDOVA |
| Homepage(s): | https://asm.md/membru?id=52 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0893-0854 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019/04 - present President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- 2012/12 - 2019/04 First Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- 2004/11 - 2012/12 Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- 2001/10 - present Founder and Director, National Center for Materials Study and Testing, Technical University of Moldova
- 1998/05 - 2004/11 Vice-Rector of the Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
- 2000/12 - 2001/05 Visiting Professor, EECS Department, University of Michigan, USA
- 1995/10 - 1996/12; 1998/11 - 1999/07 Visiting Professor, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
- 1984 - 1993 Senior and Leading Research Scientist, Head of the Laboratory, Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
Fields of Scholarship
- Nanotechnologies and multifunctional nanomaterials
- NanoBioMedicine
- Materials science
- Three-dimensional nanoarchitectures
- Metamaterials
- Porous materials
- Aero-materials
- Novel nanocomposites for electronic, photonic and nonlinear optical applications
- Ternary and multinary semiconductor compounds
- Phase transitions under hydrostatic pressure
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Doctor Honoris Causa of the “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University, Iași, România
- 2019 Full member (academician) of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (http://www.int-maan.by
)
- 2018 Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
- 2017 Honorary Professor of the Shizuoka University, Japan
- 2016 ‘Inventor of the Year’ Award from the TeleRadio-Moldova Company, Republic of Moldova
- 2015 Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, 2015
- 2015 Honorary Doctor of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russian Federation
- 2014 Award of the Academies of Sciences of Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine for scientific achievements
- 2013 Honorary member of the Academy of Scientists of Romania (AOSR)
- 2012 Full Member (Academician) of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova
- 2011 ‘Outstanding Inventor’ Award from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- 2005 Award of Excellence at the International Exhibition of Inventions and New Products in Pittsburgh (USA)
- 2005 ‘Scientist of the Year’ Award, Republic of Moldova
- 2004 National Prize in Science and Technology, Republic of Moldova
- 1995 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Bonn, Germany
