Associate Editor
ACADEMICS QUALIFICATIONS
Principal Investigator - "Al. I.Cuza" University and Romanian Academy
EDUCATIONS
PhD director, Behavioral Neuroscience and Biochemistry "Al. I.Cuza" University, Faculty of Biology, Iasi, Romania
PhD, Magna cum laude Behavioral Neuroscience “Al. I.Cuza" University, Faculty of Biology, Romania
HONORS
Best poster award in the "3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour", Thessaloniki, Greece, 28 November. -2 December. 2007, with the poster called “Cognitive disorders in 6-hydroxydopamine-induced rat model of Parkinson's disease”.
The “Young Investigator Award” in the “Summer Neuropeptide Conference”, 20 -23 July, 2009, Salzburg, Austria.
The “Young Investigator Award” in the „41st Meeting of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS)”, 13 -18 September 2009, Rhodos, Greece.
Brain Awareness Week 2008 Award (provided by DANA foundation USA and FENS), with the project “BAW 2008 at ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iasi, Romania”.
The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Travel Grant Prize for The Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 41st Annual Meeting Conference, Washington, DC, 12-16 November 2011, with the article “Oxidative stress status in patients treated with typical vs. atypical antipsychotics”. Chair of the IBRO Fellowships Committee: Prof. Marta Hallak.
IBRO Young Investigator Program Prize- Invited to Prof Maurizio Pocchiari - Instituto Superiore di Sanita- Rome, Italy. June- July 2011.
Selected expert for the Worshop “ECNP Targeted Expert Meeting on Autism: from deviant neurodevelopment through illness mechanisms towards impaired function”, 12-13 October 2012, Vienna Austria.
Young Researcher Scholarship for “8th International Meeting for Brain Energy Metabolism – Neurodegeneration and Regeneration”, 27 June-1 July, 2008, Beijing, China.
Young Researcher Travel Award for the “XVIII WFN World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders", 13-16 December 2009, Miami, USA.
Best Poster Award – in the "4th International Congress on Neurobiology, Psychopharmacology and Treatment Guidance", Agios Nikolaos Crete, Greece, May 14-17 2015, with the poster called “The relevance of some memory deficits in a valproic acid-induced rat model of autism”. Chair of the Poster Award Jury: Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Professor of Psychiatry.
Selected for the Tournament for Young Neurologists Competition (Basic Science) in 1ST CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY, Berlin, Germany, June 20-23 2015, with the paper “Pain manifestations in an MPTP-induced rat model of Parkinson’s disease”. Selection comittee: Prof. A. Federico, Siena/Italy, Prof. G. Stoll, Wuerzburg/Germany, Prof. G. Moonen, Charneux-Herve/Belgium.
The paper “Memory deficits in a ketamine-induced rat model of schizophrenia” was selected for an WFSBP Educational Grant in 12th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, 14-18 June 2015, Athens, Greece.
Fellowship for the Alzheimer's Association International Conference- AAIC 2015, 18 – 23 July 2015, Washington, D.C. with the paper “The Interaction Between Decreased Short-term Spatial Memory and Increased Oxidative Stress in a Scopolamine-Induced rat model of Alzheimer’s Disease”. Selection committee: Nicole Sanders, Senior Specialist, Alzheimer’s Association.
PUBLICATIONS
h-index: 18-19, with more than 900 citations (excluding self-citations) for the papers published in the last 6 years.
