CURRICULUM VITAE

First name:     Florin 

Surname:        CIUPRINA

 

Birth date:                  2 mai 1965

Place of Birth:            Galaţi, Romania

Civil status:                Married, two children.

 

Employment:  POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,

                        Electrical Materials Laboratory – ELMAT

                        Adress: Splaiul Independenţei nr.313, sector 6, Bucharest

                        Telephone:        +40 21 402.92.91

                        E-mail:  florin@elmat.pub.ro

 

Education, degrees and diplomas

1979-83, High school “Vasile Alecsandri”, Galati, Romania, “Diploma de bacalaureat”

1984-89 Electrotechnics Faculty, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest (I.P.B), Romania – “Diploma Inginer” (engineer)

1991-97 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering – Electrical Materials under the supervision of Prof. Alfons Ifrim, Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. Title of the thesis: Contributions on the electric conduction problems in insulating electrical materials is an extremely early approach of the conduction mechanisms in polyethylene affected by the presence of water trees.

Professional experience, former employers

1991-1998 – teaching assistant – Fac. Electrical Eng., Politehnica University of Bucharest (UPB).

1998-2001 - lecturer – Fac. Electrical Eng., Politehnica University of Bucharest (UPB)..

2001-2007 – associate professor - Fac. Electrical Eng., Politehnica University of Bucharest (UPB).

Since 2007 – professor -  Fac. Electrical Eng., Politehnica University of Bucharest (UPB).

 

Teaching activity

Lectures : Materials for Electrical Engineering, at various faculties from UPB (Electrical engineering, Power engineering,  Engineering in Foreign Languages), Software for Design in Electrical Engineering, at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Management of Experimental Data in Material Analysis, at Master in Electrical Engineering.

 

Research activity:

Research stages:

- one stage at the University of Cassino, Italy, in 1994 (5 months), as a Ph.D. student.

 - several stages at LEMD-CNRS/UJF Grenoble (which was renamed in G2E Lab) in the period 1995-2008: in the frame of a Training and Research Network for the Central and Eastern Europe, as a Ph.D. student, in the frame of a TEMPRA project and in the frame of national grants, as Ph.D. researcher. The total period spend in Grenoble was more than two years.

 

Main research results.

The  most important Florin Ciuprina’s contributions are related to the following research topics:

-Electric conduction in polymers – main topic of the PhD thesis

-Water trees in polymers – he designed experimental setups and elaborated studies that refer the to influence of various factors (heating, radiations, etc) on the propagation of water trees.

-Aging of polymers – experimental studies related to polymer degradation under the simple or combined actions of electrical, thermal and radiation stresses.

-Numerical modeling of the electromagnetic field – modeling the electric field repartition the in nanodielectrics and in polyethylene samples with water trees.

-Electrical characterization of polymeric nanocomposites – studies of the influence of the type and concentration of nanoparticles, of the temperature and radiations on the properties (especially the electric ones) of the polymeric nanocomposites

The three most creative Florin Ciuprina’s scientific discoveries are related to:

·        the influence of the ionizing radiations on the inititiation and propagation of water trees in polyethylene;

·        the clarifying of the role of polyethylene crosslinking on the water tree growth in polyethylene insulation;

·        the observation of a strong influence of the water absorption on the relaxation frequency in LDPE-SiO2 nanocomposites.

 
The most prestigious journals in which his publications can be found are: IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Journal of Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Journal of Advanced Research in Physics, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Florin Ciuprina participated actively at the international scientific community as reviewer: for the journals IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Iranian Polymer Journal, Revue Romaine de Sciences Techniques - Electrotechnique et Energetique and the UPB Buletin, for the programme Fulbright Science and Technology Award – 2010; expert reviewer in the program Earth Sciences and Engineering program, Georgian  NSF (http://www.gnsf.ge/), Georgia.; member in the national database of the expert reviewers from Romania. He was also a member of the organizing committee and/or of the international scientific commitee of the conference Materials for Electrical Engineering (1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010).  
He coordinated research activities carried out in cooperation with international partners, as follows: LEMD-Grenoble (France), Borealis Polymers AB (Sweden)  and NEETRAC Georgia (USA), the results being finalised in 4 ISI papers.
Since 2006 he is the head of the Dielectrics Laboratory having as goal to do research and teaching for Ph.D and master students in the dielectrics domain. The national projects he won and lead allowed him to aquire a dielectric spectrometer NOVOCONTROL, as well as computers and electromagnetic field software representing a total budget of over 80,000  Euro. 
He won by competition several research projects, the most imporant ones being:
- Grant T 105 CNCSIS (World Bank) entitled „Influence of radiations and water trees on the properties of polymers”, 2000-2002;
-Grant A CNCSIS code 1461 entitled „Characterization and modeling of microscopic phenomena in dielectrics”, 2004-2006;
- CEEX-PoNaDIP-234/2006 “Metodologies for the development and characterization of dielectrics from polymeric nanocomposites with electro insulating properties” 2006-2008;
 

The visibility of the scientific contributions.

Florin Ciuprina published over 60 scientific communications and article in journals or proceedings of prestigious international scientific event. The international recognition of this quality is given by the number of citations. The most cited paper is entitled Polyethylene Crosslinking and Water Treeing, Elsevier Science, published in 2001, Vol. 42 (18), in POLYMER, which, according to Google Scholar cumulated 31 citations. According to this bibliographic database with public access, there are 61 articles that cite publications by F. Ciuprina.

He gaved an invited lecture at the international conference IERD 2009, Bucharest, 10-12 septembrie 2009. (http://www.icpe-ca.ro/ro/evenimente_organizate/14/), “Polymer Nanocomposites for Electrical Engineering Applications”

Project management

 
Project manager of:
-Grant T 105 CNCSIS (World Bank) entitled „Influence of radiations and water trees on the properties of polymers”, 2000-2002;
-Grant A CNCSIS code 1461 entitled „Characterization and modeling of microscopic phenomena in dielectrics”, 2004-2006;
- CEEX-PoNaDIP-234/2006 “Metodologies for the development and characterization of dielectrics from polymeric nanocomposites with electro insulating properties” 2006-2008; Budget: 425,000 EUR (http://ponadip.elmat.pub.ro).;

Other information

 
IEEE member since 1993.
 

Selected list of publications

1.                  F. Ciuprina, G. Teissedre, J.C. Filippini, A. Smedberg, A. Campus, N. Hampton, Chemical Crosslinking of Polyethylene and its Effect on Water Tree Initiation and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation,    Vol. 17, No. 3 , ISSN 1070-9878, ISI, pp. 709-715, 2010.   

2.                  T. Zaharescu, F. Buse, S. Jipa, I. Plesa, F. Ciuprina, The Assessment on Insulation Behaviour of Multilayer EPDM/Paper Composite, Materiale Plastice, Vol. 47, No. 2, ISSN 0025-5289, ISI, pp. 195-198, 2010.  

3.                  F. Ciuprina , T. Zaharescu , S. Jipa , I. Plesa , P.V. Notingher , D. Panaitescu, Dielectric Properties And Thermal Stability of Gamma-Irradiated Inorganic Nanofiller Modified PVC, Journal of Radiation Physics nnd Chemistry, Vol. 79, No. 3, Pergamon-Elsevier Science, ISSN 0969-806X, ISI, pp. 379-382, 2010.  

4.                  F. Ciuprina , T. Zaharescu , S. Jipa , I. Plesa , P.V. Notingher , D. Panaitescu, Ionizing Radiation Effects on Dielectric Properties of LDPE-Al2O3 Nanocomposites,  UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series C: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 72, No. 3, Politehnica Press, ISSN 1454-234x, pp. 259-268, 2010.

5.                  I. Plesa, F. Ciuprina, P.V. Notingher, Dielectric Spectroscopy of Epoxy Resin with and without Inorganic Nanofillers, Journal of Advanced Research in Physics, Vol. 1. No. 1, Available at: http://stoner.phys.uaic.ro/jarp/index.php/jarp/article/view/26., 2010.

6.                  C. Stancu, P.V. Notingher, F. Ciuprina, P. Notingher, J. Castellon, S. Agnel, A. Toureille , Computation of the Electric Field in Cable Insulation in the Presence of Water Trees and Space Charge, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 45, Nr. 1, ISSN: 0093-9994, ISI, pp. 30-43, 2009.

7.                  F. Ciuprina, T. Tudorache, Electrostatic field computation in a nanocomposite dielectric, Revue Roumaine de Sciences Techniques – Electrotechnique et Energetique-, Tome 53, Nr.1, ISSN 0035-4066, ISI, pp. 59-66, 2008.

8.                  DM Panaitescu, PV Notingber, M Ghiurea, F Ciuprina, H Paven, M Iorga, D Florea, Properties of composite materials from polyethylene and cellulose microfibrils, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 9, No. 8, ISSN  1454-4164, ISI, pp. 2524-2528, 2007.

9.                  T. Zaharescu, F. Ciuprina, Electrical Behaviour of Synthetic Elastomers under Gamma Irradiation, Materiale Plastice, Vol. 43., Nr. 1,  ISSN 0025-5289, ISI, pp. 59-61, 2006.

10.              T. Zaharescu, F. Ciuprina, Radiolysis Effects on Polyethylene Terephtalate, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 236, Elsevier B.V., ISSN 0168-583X, ISI, pp. 575-579, 2005.

11.              F. Ciuprina, G. Téissedre, J.C. Filippini, P.V. Notingher, A.Campus and T. Zaharescu, Water Treeing in Chemical Crosslinked Polyethylene, in Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Bucuresti, Romania, Vol. 6, No. 3, ISSN 1454-4164, ISI, pp. 1077-1080, 2004.

12.              F. Ciuprina, G. Teissedre, J.C. Filippini, Polyethylene Crosslinking and Water Treeing, în POLYMER Vol. 42 (18), Elsevier Science, ISSN 0032-3861, ISI, pp. 7841-7846, 2001.

13.              F. Ciuprina, I. Plesa, P. V. Notingher, P. Rain, T. Zaharescu, D. Panaitescu, Dielectric Properties of LDPE-SiO2 Nanocomposites,  International Conference on Solid Dielectrics IEEE-ICSD, Potsdam, Germany, July 4-9, ISBN 978-1-4244-7944-3, ISI Proceedings, pp. 192-195, 2010.

14.              F. Ciuprina, I. Plesa, P.V.Notingher, T.Tudorache, Dielectric Properties of Nanodielectrics with Inorganic Fillers, IEEE-Annual Report of CEIDP, ISBN 978-1-4244-2549-5, ISI Proceedings, pp. 682-685, 2008.

15.              F. Ciuprina, T. Zaharescu, S. Jipa, I. Plesa, P.V. Notingher, D. Panaitescu, Ionizing Radiation Effects on Dielectric Properties of LDPE-Al2O3 Nanocomposites, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium Advanced Topics in Electrical Engineering ATEE 2008, Bucuresti, Editura Printech, ISBN 978-606-521-137-7, pp. 63-66, 20-21 noiembrie 2008.

16.              F. Ciuprina, I. Plesa,  J.C. Filippini, T. Zaharescu, D. Panaitescu, Effects of Al2O3 Nanoparticles on Dielectric Properties and Thermal Stability of LDPE, International Conference “ Materials for Electrical Engineering” – MmdE 2008 Bucuresti, pp.301-306, 2008.

17.              I. Plesa, F. Ciuprina, P. V. Notingher, D. Panaitescu, Inorganic Nano-filler Effects on Resistivity and Absorption Currents in LDPE Nanocomposites, International Conference “Materials for Electrical Engineering” – MmdE 2008 Bucuresti, pp.409-412, 2008.

18.              F. Ciuprina, T. Tudorache, Electrostatic Numerical Model for Interface Analysis in Nanodielectrics, in Proceedings of XIII International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering – ISEF 2007 – Praga, Republica Ceha, ISBN 978-80-01-03784-3, pp.128-1 - 128-4, 13-15 septembrie 2007.

19.              F. Ciuprina, J. Filippini, G. Teissèdre, A. Campus, A. Smedberg, Crosslinking and Water Treeing in Polyethylene Insulation, Proceeedings of the 7th International Conference on Insulated Power Cables - JICABLE 07 – Versailles, Franta, ISBN 2-912328-43-8, pp. 744-748, 2007.

20.              F. Ciuprina, G. Teissèdre, J. Filippini, N. Hampton, A. Smedberg and A. Campus, Control of Water Tree Length and Density in Cable Insulation Polyethylenes, Conference Record of IEEE-ISEI, Omnipress, Madison (SUA), ISSN 1089-084X, INSPEC 9046333, ISI Proceedings, pp. 170-173, 2006.

21.              C. Stancu, P.V. Notingher, F. Ciuprina, P. Notingher jr, S. Agnel, J. Castellon, A. Toureille, Electric Field Computation in Water Treed Polyethylene with Space Charge Accumulation, Conference Record of IEEE-ISEI, Omnipress, Madison (SUA), ISSN 1089-084X, INSPEC 9046337, pp. 186-189, 2006.

22.              D.M. Panaitescu, P.V. Notingher, C. Radovici, M. Iorga, F. Ciuprina,  M. Giurea, M.C. Corobea, Dielectric Properties of Some Organic-Organic Composite Materials,  in Proceedings of the Joint international Conference Materials for Electrical Engineering (MmdE 2006 & IEEE ROMSC 2006), Bucuresti, Romania, ISBN 973-718-503-X, pp. 173-178, 2006.

23.              C. Stancu, P.V. Notingher, F. Ciuprina, P. Notingher jr, S. Agnel, J. Castellon, A. Toureille, The influence of space charge and water trees inside the insulation cables on electric field repartition, in Proceedings of the Joint international Conference Materials for Electrical Engineering (MmdE 2006 & IEEE ROMSC 2006), Bucuresti, Romania, ISBN 973-718-503-X, pp. 267-272, 2006.

24.              F. Ciuprina, T. Zaharescu, Electrical Resistivity of Irradiated Polypropylene Nanocomposites, in Proceedings of the Joint international Conference Materials for Electrical Engineering (MmdE 2006 & IEEE ROMSC 2006), Bucuresti, Romania, ISBN 973-718-503-X, pp. 286-289, 2006.

25.              F. Ciuprina, Absorption Current in Water-Treed Polyethylene, in Proceedings of XII International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering – ISEF 2005 – Baiona, Spania, ISBN 84-609-7057-4, 15-17 septembrie 2005.

26.              T. Zaharescu, F. Ciuprina, P. V. Notingher, Electrical Properties of Polyolefin Blends under γ-Radiation Exposure, in 8th IEEE International Conference on Solid Dielectrics – ICSD 2004, Toulouse , Franta, ISBN 0-7803-8348-6, INSPEC 8116420, ISI Proceedings,  pp. 367-370, 5-9 iulie 2004.

27.              F. Ciuprina, P.V.  Notingher, Estimation of the conductivity of water-treed regions in polyethylene, in “Actes du Colloque Materiaux du Genie Elecgtrique” - MGE 2003, Grenoble, Franta, pp. 78-80, 2-3 aprilie 2003.

28.              F. Ciuprina, G. Teissedre, J.C. Filippini, P.V. Notingher, “Radiation Induced Changing in Polyethylene Morphology and Water Treeing” în Proceedings of the 3rd  international workshop Materials for Electrotechnics – MmdE 2001, Bucureşti, România, ISBN 973-652-362-4, pp. 286-289, 21-23 mai 2001.

Hirsch index and the total number of citations, according to Web of Science

Hirsch index = 3

Total number of citations = 34

The address of the researcherid.com profile  

http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-4173-2011

Date: 25 May 2011