Curriculum Vitae

Iuliu Sorin POP



Affiliations

Main: Prof.
Research group Computational Mathematics
Faculty of Sciences
Hasselt University, Belgium
E-mail: sorin.pop@uhasselt.be
WWW: https://sites.google.com/a/uhasselt.be/sorin-pop/
Telephone: 32-11-268581

Professor II (secondary appointment)
Reservoir Group
Dept of Mathematics
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
University of Bergen, Norway

Duties*

   2015-present: Associate Editor, Computational Geosciences

   2011-present: Editorial board, Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory (former Revue d'Analyse Numérique et de Théorie de l'Approximation)

   2010-2015: Coordinator, Industrial and Applied Mathematics master programme(TU/e)

   2013-2014: Vice-Chair, SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Activity Group on Geosciences

   2006-2014: Editorial Board, Creative Mathematics
  
   2001-2003: Editorial Board, Bul. Stiint. Univ. Baia-Mare Ser. B
*for organized conferences, workshops, etc. please check Activity


Awards, grants (running, or recently closed)

   2015: InterPore Procter & Gamble Award for Porous Media Research
   2012: J. Tinsley Oden Visiting Fellow (Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin)
   2011: Best Master Teacher of the Department of Mathematics and nominated for the Educational Prize of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the category “Master”   
   2009: SimTech Senior Fellow (University of Stuttgart)
   1993-1995: DAAD Fellow

   2016-2020: DynScale: Reactive flow and transport models in complex media with evolving interfaces at the micro scale, Odysseus programme, Group I
   2015-2018: PoroFlow: Non-equilibrium models for flow in heterogeneous porous media, Shell-NWO/FOM CSER PhD-programma, PhD researcher, 266 k€ (applicant, PI)
   2012-2014: NeqFlow: a mathematical and numerical investigation of nonequilibrium effects in porous media flows, NWO-NDNS+ grant, postdoctoral researcher, 100 k€ (applicant, PI)
   2007-2015: NUPUS: Non-linearities and upscaling in porous media, International Research Training Group NUPUS, DFG-NWO-RCN, amount 2.15M€: 1.8M€ (Stuttgart) + 350k€ (Utrecht, Eindhoven, Delft, Wageningen), more than 20 Ph D and MSc students, and postdoctoral researchers (PI, co-applicant, vice-spokesman)
 

Membership

    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
        2013-2014: Vice-Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences

    International Society for Porous Media (Interpore)


Education
 

1983-1987

Gheorghe Sincai" College, Baia-Mare, Romania

1988-1992

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
License degree in Informatics (diploma of special worth)

1993-1998

Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany

1998

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ph'D degree in Mathematics: Regularization Methods in the Numerical Analysis of Some Degenerate Parabolic Equations,
advisors Prof. Dr. Gh. Coman (Cluj-Napoca), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Jäger (Heidelberg)

Experience

Research/Teaching:

  "Babes-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

1992-1998

Assistant (Numerical and Statistical Calculus chair)

1998-2002

Lecturer (Numerical and Statistical Calculus chair)

  "Ruprecht-Karls" University, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg, Germany

1993-1996

Research fellow (DAAD, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Jäger)

1996-1998

Researcher (SFB 359, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. W. Jäger)

  Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2000 (5 months)

Researcher (postdoc, MAS 1.2)

  North University of Baia Mare, Faculty of Sciences, Romania 

2002-2004

Lecturer (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics chair)

  Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,The Netherlands 

2000-2004

Researcher (postdoc supervised by Prof. Dr. C.J. van Duijn, Applied Analysis group)

2004-2015

Ass. Prof. (until 2013), Assoc. Prof. (since 2013)

  University of Bergen, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Dept of Mathematics, Norway

2012-present   Professor II (secondary appointment)

  Hasselt University, Faculty of Sciences,Belgium

2016-present   Professor 

   
Industry:

Transart  SRL, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

1998-2000

software analyst, project manager