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of
the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Honorary member of the Academy of Romanian
Scientists (AOSR), senior member of SPIE, and member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, IEEE, Optical Society of America,
Materials Research Society and Electrochemical Society. He is a Honorary Doctor of
the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russian Federation). He has about 300
scientific journal publications, 5 books in English and 52
technological patents. He got about 2900 citations to published papers (excluding
self-citations) and has a Hirsch index: h = 31.




Pavel Topala received his M.S. degree from the Balti
State University in 1980, his Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Politehnica University of Bucharest,
Romania in 1993, and
his Doctor habilitate degree from the Technical University of Moldova in 2008. He became full professor in 2009 at
the Balti State University, Republic of Moldova. In the period from 1982 to 1984,
and from 1994 to 2009 he worked as lecturer, associate professor, and head of the Technological
Department at the Balti
State University. Since
2010 he serves as dean of the Department of Exact,
Economic and Environmental Sciences at the same university. He is also the head
of the scientific laboratory "Micro- and nano-technologies", head of the Interuniversity Center "Resonance
nano-technologies", member of the National Council of Accreditation and
Attestation of the Republic of Moldova, head of subsidiary of the international
association ModTech and Romanian Association for Non-conventional Technologies.
He has been an invited professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan; at the University
"A. I. Cuza" and University "Gh. Asachi" of Iasi, Romania; at the Silesian
Technological University of Gliwice, Poland and University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Professor Topala's research
interests are related to nanotechnologies, electric discharge machining, electro-erosion
processing, plasma physics, coatings consisting of graphite and oxide
nano-structures on metal surfaces. He is author of 5 monographs, more than 200
journal publications and 9 technological patents. He got 15 gold and silver awards
at international exhibitions of inventions.


Veaceslav Ursaki received his M.S. degree from
the Moscow Institute of Physics and Engineering in 1979 and his Ph.D. degree in
Semiconductor Physics from Lebedev Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of
U.S.S.R., in 1985. He received his Doctor habilitate degree in 1998 from the
Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. From 1986
to 2013 he worked as senior, leading, and principal researcher, consecutively,
at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Since
2013 he serves as coordinator of the Department of Engineering and
Technological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He has been a
visiting scientist at the Technical University Athens, Greece in 1996-1997; at
the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany in 1998; and at the Max-Planck
Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany in 2001. Doctor Ursaki's
research interests are related to pressure induced phase transitions in ternary
and multinary compounds, materials science (III-V, II-VI and ternary compounds,
radiation-hard materials, nanostructured materials and nanocomposites),
electrical, optical and photoelectrical characterization of semiconductor
materials and device structures, lasing effects in solid-state nanostructures,
optoelectronic and photonic properties of nanostructures and nanocomposite
materials. He has published more than 200 papers in Scopus database and 5 book
chapters. He edited 3 books in English and has 30 technological patents. His
personal Hirsch index equals 25. He won
the Prize of the Academies of Sciences of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in 2013.
He contributed to the realization of more than 10 international projects,
including FP-7 MOLD-ERA Project in 2010-2013.