Dr. Nicolae Goga

I am a professor at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, and I work in the Molecular Dynamics Group, University of Groningen, as an associated senior researcher. Molecular dynamics is an interdisciplinary domain at the intersection of physics, chemistry, computer science, biology, medicine, etc. I worked in close cooperation with Emeritus Professor Herman Berendsen (http://www.hjcb.nl/). Two algorithms I developed are part of the Gromacs (www.gromacs.org) package of molecular dynamics, being used worldwide by prestigious groups (Stanford Univ, Cambridge, etc.) and powerful companies (Intel, IBM, etc.). I also worked for ISO/IEEE medical device standards 11073 family of standards. In this line of research, in 2011, I received the IEEE Technology Merits Award, and in 2010, the US Edition (http://www.rug.nl/news/2011/01/emergingtechnologyaward). I teach in Romania, Africa, the US (online), and Inter-American countries (online), covering different courses, such as networking, distributed systems, software engineering, statistics, methods of research, databases, etc. I have obtained several international grants.