He was born on the 22nd of July, 1964, in Urziceni, Romania. Graduated of Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest in 1990, Machine-Tools specialization, when he also started working in the same department that trained him.
His professional activity is composed of three main periods:
– technical studies and his debut in professional academic activity (1985-1995);
– after his specialization in IT&C, I focused myself on CAD, CAM and CAE utilization in engineering (1996-2013);
He further develops in two main pillars of the Industry 4.0, respectively Pneumatics and AR & VR for engineering. Currently, is Associate Professor at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and director of a Smart Pneumatics Lab. Since 2018 is the local coordinator in UPB within the European academic network ATHENS, and since 2022 is the project manager for UPB within European alliance EELISA, participating in the European Commission’s project: European Universities.