Contact Details

Forschungszentrum Jülich
ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry
52425 Jülich
Germany
Telefon: +49-2461-61-8777

Curriculum Vitae

since September 2009
Postdoc in 'Computational Biology' group at the ICS-6: Structural Biochemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich.

2007-2010
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics Department, Loughborough University, UK.

2005-2008
Early Stage Researcher (Marie Curie Fellowship), Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.

2003-2005
Post Universitary Studies in Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the West University of Timisoara, Department of Computer Science, Romania.

2001-2003
Masters (MSc) – Post universitary studies at the Physics Faculty at the West University of Timisoara, Theoretical and Computational Physics Department, Romania.

1997-2001
Physics Faculty, West University of Timisoara, specialized in Physics, in 2001 – License in Physics (BSc), Romania.

1993-1997
Theoretical High-School of Mathematics and Physics, Viseu de Sus, Maramures, Romania.

Research Interests

• Mathematical and Computational Methods in Physics
• Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
• Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Computer Simulation of Liquids
• Parallel and Distributed Computing

Publications

Patterns and Pathways in Colloidal Nanoparticle Assemblies
P.J. Moriarty, M. O. Blunt, C. P. Martin, E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, B. Tadic, M. Suvakov,
I. Vancea and U. Thiele
in The Oxford Handbook on Nanoscience and Technology: Frontiers and Advances,
ed. A.V. Narlikar and Y.Y. Fu, Oxford University Press (2010),
ISBN13: 9780199533046; page at OUP.

Modelling approaches to the dewetting of evaporating thin films of nanoparticle suspensions
U. Thiele, I. Vancea, A.J. Archer, M.J. Robbins, L. Frastia, A. Stannard,
E. Pauliac-Vaujour, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt and P. Moriarty
J. Phys.-Cond. Mat. , 21 264016 (2009). doi: 10.1088/0953-8984/21/26/264016

Front instabilities in evaporatively dewetting nanofluids
I. Vancea, U. Thiele, E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt, and P. Moriarty,
Phys. Rev. E, 78 041601 (2008). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.041601

Fingering instabilities in dewetting nanofluids
E. Pauliac-Vaujour, A. Stannard, C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt, I. Notingher, P. Moriarty,
I. Vancea and U. Thiele,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 176102 (2008). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.176102

Controlling pattern formation in nanoparticle assemblies via directed solvent dewetting
C. P. Martin, M. O. Blunt, E. Pauliac-Vaujour, I. Vancea, U. Thiele, and P. Moriarty,
Phys. Rev. Lett., 99 116103 (2007). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.116103

A genetic algorithm approach to probing the evolution of self-organised nanostructured systems
P Siepmann, CP Martin, I Vancea, PJ Moriarty, N Krasnogor,
Nano Letters; (Letter) 2007; 7 (7) doi: 10.1021/nl070773m