Mircea Dragoman is the Director of the CENASIC Centre, National Research and Development Institute in Microtechnologies (IMT Bucharest, www.imt.ro), Bucharest, Romania, mircea.dragoman@imt.ro.
He was born in Bucharest in 1955. He graduated the Polytechnical Institute in Bucharest, Electronic Faculty, in 1980 and received his doctoral degree in electronics in 1991. Since 1996 he is a senior researcher at the National Research Institute in Microtechnologies and, since 2008, is teaching a course at the Univ. Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania titled “Advanced Technological Processes”, which is related to nanotechnologies and advanced materials. He has realized the first carbon nanotube and graphene devices and circuits for high frequency applications, thereby enriching the novel field of Carbon-Based Electronics. In the period from 1992-1994, he was recipient of the Humbold Fellowship award and carried out postdoctoral studies at Duisburg University, Germany. He has held invited professor positions at CNR- Istituto di Electtronica dello Stato Solido-Roma (1996), Univ. Saint-Etienne –Franta (1997), Univ. Mannheim (1998-1999, 2001-2002), Univ. Frankfurt (2003), and Univ. Darmstadt (2004). In the periods 2005-2006 and 2008-2010 he was nominated Directeur de Recherche at CNRS LAAS Toulouse. He has published more than 300 scientific papers and 7 books in the following areas: nanoelectronics, microwaves, MEMS, optoelectronics. Mircea Dragoman received the “Gheorghe Cartianu” award of the Romanian Academy in 1999.