Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu
Prof. Silaghi-Dumitrescu received his PhD degrees from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, U.S.A. (2004, experimental chemistry) and from the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Romania (2005, computational chemistry). After a postdoctoral stage at the University of Essex (Colchester, England), he returned to UBB in 2007, where he teaches biochemistry, computational chemistry and related subjects, while also serving as president of the Scientific Council (2012-), director of the Center for University Strategies (2020-) and Coordinator of the Office for Open Science (2024-). He has served as editor in chief at the journal Acta Metallomica, and as a member of the editorial board or special issue editor at the Revue Roumaine de Chimie, Studia Universitatis Babeș Bolyai –Seria Chemia, Chemtracts – Inorganic Chemistry, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Molecular Medicine, and Molecules (Inorganic Chemistry section). He has also served as the national representative of Romania at the Division for Computational and Theoretical Chemistry of the European Chemical Society, EuChemS, and as member of the specialty committees (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry) of the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research and of the Romanian National Council for Accreditation of University Degrees and Titles, and as personal advisor of the Romanian Minister of Education and Research. His research explores the mechanisms of small molecule activation by metals in biology and medicine (especially involving redox chemistry, unusual metal oxidation/coordination states, and free radicals) in contexts such as enzymes of the nitrogen cycle, blood substitutes, anticancer drugs, oxidative and nitrosative stress in various ranges of organisms (from anaerobic microorganisms to plants and to vertebrates), or plant extracts – but also interdisciplinary applications of exact science tools in scientometrics or in cultural studies.
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