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Ionel Haiduc
Vice-President of the Romanian Academy
Born: May 9, 1937, Cluj-Napoca
Education
- 1959 - M.Sc. in chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
- 1964 - Ph.D. in chemistry, Institute of Fine Chemicals Technology, Moscow
(USSR) with a thesis supervised by Acad. K.A. Andrianov (inorganic polymer
and organo-silicon chemistry)
- 1966 - Fulbright Fellowship
- 1966-1968 - Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA (organosilicon and organometallic chemistry, with Prof. Henry Gilman) - 16 months
- 1971-1972 - University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (organometallic chemistry, with Prof.
R.B. King) - 10 months
Teaching Activity
- 1959-to date - permanent positions in the Chemistry Department
of "Babes-Bolyai University" Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 1959 - laboratory assistant
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1962 - assistant
- 1964 - lecturer
- 1969 - associate professor
- 1973 - to date - full professor
- Visiting Professorships and other positions abroad
- 1992 - NSF Visiting Scientist, Chemistry Department, University
of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (one month)
- 1993 - European Commission Visiting Scientist, University of Santiago
de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (two months)
- 1993-1994 - Visiting Professor, Instituto de Quimica, Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F. (18 months)
- 1993 -Visiting Professor, Instituto de Quimica, Universidad Federal
de Sao Carlos, Brazil (two weeks)
- 1997 - Humboldt Forschungsaufenthalt, Chemisches Institut, Otto von
Guericke Universitat Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany (3 months)
- 1997- Consultant, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El
Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
- 1998-1999 - Gauss Visiting Professorship granted by Gottinger Akademie
der Wissenschsften, at Anorganisch Chemisches Institut, Gottingen Universitaet,
Germany (3 months)
Administrative positions
- 1976-1984 - Prorector (vice-president) "Babes-Bolyai" University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 1990-1993 - Rector (president) "Babes-Bolyai" University,
Cluj-Napoca,
Romania
- 1995-to date - President, Transylvania Branch of the Romanian Academy
- 1998 (Feb.) - to date, Vicepresident, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Scientific Activity
Scientific interests
- Coordination and organometallic chemistry of Main Group elements
- Supramolecular organometallic chemistry
- Inorganic rings
- Biologically active metal compounds (including antitumor activity)
- Inorganic chemistry nomenclature and systematizations
- Science management and policy
Scientific Titles
- 1964 - Ph.D. in chemistry
- 1990 - Correspondent Member of the Romanian Academy
- 1991 - Full Member of the Romanian Academy
Memberships
- 1993 - to date, International Council of Main Group Chemistry
- 1991 - 1993, Alliance of Universities for Democracy (Board of Directors)
- 1992 - to date, IUPAC Affiliate Member
Membership in Editorial Boards of Professional Journals
- Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-organic Chemistry
(New York)
- Main-Group Metal Chemistry (London-Tel Aviv)
- Metal-Based Drugs (London)
- Science and Engineering Ethics (Guildford, UK)
- Revue Roumaine de Chimie (Bucharest)
Publications
Books (in English)
- The Chemistry of Inorganic Ring Systems ( 2 vols ), Wiley-Interscience,
London, New York 1970
- Basic Organometallic Chemistry (with J.J. Zuckerman), Walter de Gruyter,
Berlin, New York,1985
- The Chemistry of Inorganic Homo- and Heterocycles ( 2 vols ) (Editor
and contributor, with D.B. Sowerby), Academic Press, London, New York,
1987
- Organometallics in Cancer Chemotherapy ( 2 vols ) (with C. Silvestru),
CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 1990, 1991.
Articles
- More than 250 scientific and review articles in professional journals,
including Inorg. Chem.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; J. Organomet. Chem.; Polyhedron;
Chem. Revs.; Anticancer Research; Inorg. Chim. Acta; J. Chem. Soc. Dalton
Trans.; J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun.; Coordination Chem. Revs.; Rev. Roumaine
Chim., etc. as well as chapters in several books
Awards and titles
- 1974 - "G. Spacu" Prize of the Romanian Academy
- 1997 - Humboldt Forschungsafenthalt
- 1998 - Gauss Professorship
Address
RO 3400 Cluj-Napoca, Str. Predeal No.6
E-mail address: ihaiduc@acad.ro
Phone: +40-64-14866
Foreign languages
- English (fluent), Russian (fluent), French (well), Spanish
(well), German (moderate, technical), Hungarian (moderate).
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