Dr. Adrian-Raul Tomsa - Curriculum Vitae


	"Raluca Ripan" Institute for Research in Chemistry




Surname: TOMSA
First name: Adrian-Raul
Birth Place: Bistrita, Romania
Birth Date: 1975 April 4-th
Nationality: Romanian




2001-to date	Junior Researcher
	("Raluca Ripan" Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
1998-2001	Research Assistant
	("Raluca Ripan" Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)




November 2002	Defense of Ph.D. Thesis
	"Complexes of the Trilacunary Keggin Polyoxometalates with f Block Metals or Organotin Fragments"
	scientific advisor Prof. Gheorghe Marcu

1997-2002	Ph.D. Student in Inorganic Chemistry
	Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

June 1998	Defense of M.S. Dissertation
	"Synthesis and Characterization of New Heteropolyoxometalates with Organometallic Fragments"
	scientific advisor Prof. Mariana Rusu

1997-1998	M.S. student in Organometallic and Coordinative Chemistry
	Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

June 1997	Defense of B.S. Dissertation
	"Polyoxometalates with Organometallic Fragments"
	scientific advisor Prof. Mariana Rusu

1993-1997	Undergraduate student
	Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania




English	reading, speaking, writing well
French	reading, speaking, writing well



Computer skills
Computer languages: TURBO PASCAL
Operating system: DOS, Microsoft Windows ***
Programs: Chemwin, Microsoft Office, Origin, Diamond, Povray

Instrumental techniques
Spectroscopy (Ultraviolet, Visible, FT-IR, Raman)
Cyclic voltammetry
Conductometry
Photocolorimetry
Circular Dichroism
SQUID

Others
ability to carry out independent research work, to teach and supervise research work carried out by undergraduate students





NATO ASI on "POLYOXOMETALATE MOLECULAR SCIENCE", Tenerife, Spain, August 25 - September 4, 2001




National
"Polyoxometalates with Structural Organometallic Fragments" 1995-1998 (research student)
"Complex Combinations Related Polyoxometalates" 1998-2000 (researcher)
"Complex Combinations of Transition and Noble Metals Involved in Catalytic Processes and Industrial Subproduct Valorification" 1998-2000 (researcher)
"Polyoxometalates with Transition Metals and Structural Organic and Organometallic Fragments" 1999-2001 (researcher)
"Inorganic Substances With Special Purity" 2000 (researcher)
"New Complexes of Trilacunary Keggin Polyoxometalates with Lanthanides and Noble Metals" 2000-2001 (researcher)
"New Copper and Manganese Complexes of the Polyoxometalates with Heteroatoms Possesing Unshared Electrons" 2000-2001 (researcher)
"Polyoxometalate Derivatives with Organotin Fragments and Transition Metals" 2000-2002 (researcher)

International
"Biological Evaluation of New Polyoxometalate Compounds" 2000-2002, Greek-Romanian joint research programme






Apr. 2001 – Jul. 2001
NCSR Demokritos Institute of Physical Chemistry, Laboratory of Photo-Redox Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy, Athens, Greece
Feb. 2003 - Jul. 2004
Universität Bielefeld, Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie l
Oct. 2004- Sept. 2005
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization
Nov. 2005 - Oct. 2006
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI , Paris, France, Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Materiaux Moleculaire





member of Romanian Chemical Society




National Study Fellowship in 1993-1998
Benckiser Romania S.R.L. Fellowship, 1998
CREST, JST Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2005
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2005-2006












Last update 17-Jul-2007