Catalina Curceanu

Catalina Curceanu
Alma mater

University of Bucharest

CERN
Scientific career
Institutions Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

Catalina Curceanu is a Romanian physicist and lead researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. She researches low energy quantum chromodynamics.

Early life and education

Curceanu was born in Transylvania.[1] She became interested in science as a child, and applied to the Mathematics and Physics Lyceum at Magurele in Bucharest.[2] She attributes her passion for physics to her very skilled teachers.[3] She studied physics at the University of Bucharest and graduated as a Valedictorian.[1][4] She carried out her doctoral research using the Low Energy Antiproton Ring at CERN on the OBELIX experiment.[5] She earned her PhD from the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering.[6]

Research and career

In 1992 Curceanu joined the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.[1] She uses the DAFNE (DAΦNE) collider at Frascati.[1] She is part of the VIP2 experiment (Violation of the Pauli Principle) in the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.[7][8] In 2010 she was awarded Personality of the Year by the Romanian Academy in Rome.[9][10] She works at CERN on the OBELIX experiment, looking for Exotic mesons, and DIRAC, looking for exotic pionium.[2]

She published the popular science book Dai Buchi Neri all’adroterapia. Un Viaggio nella Fisca Moderna in 2013 with Springer.[11] The book considers concepts of modern physics, including; the standard model, black holes and neutrinos.[11] In 2015 she was awarded a $85,000 grant from FQXI and the John Templeton Foundations for her quantum physics research.[1][12] Her proposal considered collapse models and the measurement problem.[13] She used an ultrapure germanium detector to test the radiation it emits.[14] Her recent work involves the SIDDHARTA experiment, looking at the strong interaction and strangeness.[15][16]

Curceanu was the Australian Institute of Physics Women in Physics lecturer in 2016.[17] In her lectures she asked "Quo Vadis the Universe'".[18] She has spoken about quantum computers at TEDx Brașov and TEDx Cluj-Napoca.[19][20] She won the 2017 European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics for her contributions to low-energy QCD.[21] She won a Visiting International Scholar Award from the University of Wollongong in 2017, researching detector systems for high precision spectroscopy in fundamental physics.[22] She is involved with several outreach and education activities.[4][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 RSPE, Director,; director@physics.anu.edu.au. "Event - Catalina Curceanu - The Standard Model of elementary particle physics: how well do we understand the Universe? - RSPE - ANU". physics.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  2. 1 2 News, Romanian Global. "Interviu cu dr. Cătălina Oana Curceanu – organizator al celui de al XXXIX-lea Congres al Academiei Româno-Americane | Analize / Interviuri". www.rgnpress.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  3. ↑ Teodorescu, Daniela Palade. "Cătălina Oana Curceanu - "În cercetare nu există orar de lucru, ci doar bucuria descoperirii"". www.cariereonline.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  4. 1 2 "Space time travel through the fascinating world of nuclear particles alongside the researcher Cătălina Curceanu | Romania in Contact". www.romaniaincontact.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  5. ↑ "LNF/IDF". www.lnf.infn.it. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  6. 1 2 "Cambridge Scholars Publishing". www.cambridgescholars.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  7. ↑ Marton, Johann; Bartalucci, S.; Bassi, A.; Bazzi, M.; Bertolucci, S.; Berucci, C.; Bragadireanu, M.; Cargnelli, M.; Clozza, A. (2017-03-29). "Underground test of quantum mechanics - the VIP2 experiment". arXiv:1703.10055 [quant-ph].
  8. ↑ Pichler, A.; Bartalucci, S.; Bazzi, M.; Bertolucci, S.; Berucci, C.; Bragadireanu, M.; Cargnelli, M.; Clozza, A.; Curceanu, C. (2016-06-09). "Application of photon detectors in the VIP2 experiment to test the Pauli Exclusion Principle". J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 718: 052030. arXiv:1602.00898. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/718/5/052030.
  9. ↑ "Un nou premiu prestigios pentru cercetătoarea Cătălina Curceanu | Accent Montreal". accentmontreal.com (in Romanian). Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  10. ↑ "Romanians and Italians rewarded at Celebrity Gala Awards in Rome - Financiarul.ro". Financiarul.ro (in Romanian). 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  11. 1 2 Dai buchi neri all'adroterapia - Un viaggio nella Fisica Moderna | Catalina Oana Curceanu | Springer.
  12. ↑ "INFN: Catalina Curceanu awarded by Templeton Foundation". ResearchItaly - INFN: Catalina Curceanu awarded by Templeton Foundation. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  13. ↑ "FQXi - Foundational Questions Institute". fqxi.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  14. ↑ "Collapsing Physics: Q&A with Catalina Oana Curceanu". fqxi.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  15. ↑ "Two lectures from distinguished physicist exploring strange and impossible phenomena | ANSTO". www.ansto.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  16. ↑ Curceanu, Catalina (2012-11-22). "DEAR and SIDDHARTA collaborations" (PDF). Milan. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  17. ↑ "Fearless physics: Catalina Curceanu, WIP Lecturer | e-EPS". www.epsnews.eu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  18. ↑ Helen (2016-06-28). "Women In Physics - Australia: Be curious! Introducing Prof Catalina Curceanu our 2016 Women in Physics Lecture". Women In Physics - Australia. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  19. ↑ TEDx Talks (2017-12-01), How Quantum Computers Work? | Catalina Curceanu | TEDxBrașov, retrieved 2018-08-09
  20. ↑ TEDx Talks (2018-06-27), How quantum computers work | Cătălina Curceanu | TEDxCluj, retrieved 2018-08-09
  21. ↑ "EPS PRIZE FOR PHYSICS "EMMY NOETHER" GOES TO CATALINA CURCEANU | INFN-LNF". w3.lnf.infn.it. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  22. ↑ "Recipients". www.uow.edu.au. amorgan. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
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