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Upon graduation from the math-physics Mircea cel Batran high school in Constanta, Romania, I entered Bucharest University in the Department of Physics, choosing Nuclear and Particle Physics as my option in the last year. After graduation with a B.S. degree in 2000, I participated in the NATO Advanced Study Institute symposium "Nuclei far from Stability and Astrophysics" at Predeal, Romania. This led to a year working at Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering in Bucharest. The main subject of my activities as a research assistant in the Nuclear Physics Department was the measurement of lifetimes of nuclear excited states in the medium mass region.

Noticing that my name was never added to the Institute's web page, I decided to leave for the University of Illinois, where I started graduate studies in the fall of 2001. After surviving the first year of teaching and coursework, I joined the DVH group, moving from nuclear and particle physics to a slightly less speculative venture: quantum computation.

When I'm not busy writing biographical info, I fabricate superconductor-insulator-superconductor Josephson tunnel  junctions, which are to be used for studying the decoherence mechanism, observing macroscopic quantum coherent oscillations, and implementation into solid-state quantum computation.