
Biotechnology engineer, university professor
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This associate professor at the Faculty of Bioengineering of Animal Resources teaches Advanced Molecular Methods in Biotechnology and Modern Microbial Biotechnologies since 2021. Managerial activity: in 2014 he was hired at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute where, in 2016, he became the Director of the Department of Food Microbiology. He is currently a doctoral supervisor in the field of Biotechnology, both in Romania and in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, leading a research group with multiple international collaborations. He is an Honorary Lecturer in Microbiology at Queens University Belfast, and in 2018 he received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at USAMVB, King Michael I of Romania in Timișoara. His scientific research activity focuses on the area of microbiology and the mechanisms underlying infections caused by bacterial pathogens.