The project „Advanced Research Training in Nuclear Photonics” (ARNPhot) brings together the leading scientists in this field at National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICS of Bucharest (UNSTPB) and Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUDa) with matching expertise.
The Bucharest-based Research Trainers (RT) comprises 8 experienced scientists, all of them holding a professor title or being habilitated or in the habilitation process at the UNSTPB, or in the case of Dr. Ursescu, at the University of Bucharest. All of them are granted the right to independently guide junior researchers in their doctoral research work. Since the establishment of the European Extreme-Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics(ELI-NP) at the Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering(IFIN–HH), internationally leading scientists have been attracted around ELI-NP and the UNSTPB has created a strong academic program for Nuclear Photonics. This includes very experienced professors (Balabanski, Tanaka, Ur) along with more recently habilitated scientists at an earlier stage of their careers, too. All of them can draw from extended international experience and visibility. Profs. Balabanski and Ur and Dr. Matei are experimental nuclear scientists. Prof. Tanaka and Drs. Doria, Ticos, and Ursescu are high-power laser scientists, and Dr. Tsoneva is a theoretical nuclear physicist. Their fields of internationally highly visible competences match and complement the expertises provided by the group of RTs from TUDa. Prof. Tanaka had served as the Scientific Director of ELI-NP since 2016, wherefore he had interupted his academic activities since then. His term had ended and he is fully devoted to his research training activities within this proposal.
The RTs from TUDa include 9 professors with permanent appointment and 4 established researchers who all have a track record in the field of Nuclear Photonics but who have not yet received a permanent professorship. Out of the latter, Dr. Kuschel is currently received a tenure-track qualification professorship at TUDa, Dr. Isaak holds a competitive ATHENE Young-Investigator Group Leader position and is preparing his habilitation. Drs. Arnold and Werner are permanent staff scientists at TUDa. All of them are granted the right to independently guide junior researchers, ad personam, in their doctoral research work at the Physics Department of TUDa. Their inclusion as RTs in this research training group supports their careers for additional academic experience.