Protecting Europe in Turbulent Times
Bucharest Leaders Summit: Enduring Power of Solidarity
Speakers 20 May 2022

 Ileana Rău graduated in 1994 from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania. She has obtained her PhD degree in 2002 at the same university. She has spent several years as PostDoc, first at French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Laboratory in Saclay and then at Angers University, where she received the Habilitation Degree (Dr.Sc.) in Physics in 2007. In 2013 she received another Habilitation Degree in Chemical Engineering. She was invited Professor at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France in 2010 and 2018, at Yonsei University, South Korea in 2016 and University Aix-Marseille, France in 2018. Currently (since 2014) Ileana Rău is Professor at Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University POLTEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania and since 2020 she is Director of Doctoral School “Applied Chemistry and Materials Science” from IOSUD - UPB
Ileana Rău research profile is based on two complementary fields: environmental science and engineering, and biomaterials with different applications. Therefore her scientific activity is focused on synthesis of materials based on natural compounds (biopolymers, natural extracts) with different biological activities and properties. Ileana Rău has made significant contributions to the development of optical materials science and to understanding of linear and nonlinear optical properties of organic and biomaterials as well as their applications in photonics and biophotonics. She made also important contribution in popularizing nonlinear optics and materials science through organization of international conferences, workshops and editorial services. In the last years she was also focussed on synthesis of bio-based materials with medical applications as well as on the chitosan recovery from different waste and its use in different applications.
Between 2014 – 2020 Prof. Ileana Rău served as topical editor of Optical Society of America (OSA) for Applied Optics journal and since 2020 for the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. She is board member of Nonlinear Optics & Quantum Optics as well as Display & Imaging journals. She is serving as evaluator expert to EU projects, national projects and reviewer for several ISI journals.
As recognition of her entire scientific activity and international visibility, since 2016 she became member of CNATDCU (National Committee for attestation of titles, diplomas and academia certificates) – Chemical Engineering branch, and more recently of FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders), Belgium, (Materials Science Committee). Due to her expertise Prof. Ileana Rău was also involved in several PhD thesis juries abroad acting as President or Rapporteur (Italy, France and Morocco) Ileana Rau is Fellow of SPIE, member of SPIE Women in Optics circle, and Laureat of European Descartes Award, 2007 (member of French team). Her scientific records count more 200 published papers, cited more than 2100 times, hindex = 22.