Dr. Miruna Daniela Popescu
Positions:
April 2006 - present:
I hold a post-doctoral research fellowship at Armagh
Observatory, N. Ireland
April 2002 - June 2006
Scientific researcher at the Astronomical
Institute
of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest
June - August 2001
Research
assistant at the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak,
Tucson, Arizona
February 2000 - April
2002
Research assistant at
the Astronomical Institute
of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Education:
Postgraduate
studies:
July 2006
PhD in solar
physics, Armagh Observatory (enrolled at Queen's
University,
Belfast);
supervisor: Prof. Gerry J. Doyle
Doctoral thesis: "Searching for the Origins of the
Fast solar wind" - view
my thesis (ps file)
February 2000
M. Sc. in the
physics of atoms, molecules and astrophysics, Physics Faculty, Bucharest University
October
1998 - July 1999
I attended the Astrophysics courses at the Faculty
of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, Turin University,
and I worked, at the Turin Astronomical Observatory, at
my Master
project and dissertation thesis "The Variability of Active Galactic
Nuclei"
Graduate
studies:
June 1997
B.
Sc. in technological
physics, Physics Faculty,
Bucharest University
October 1996 -
June 1997
I have worked, in the IFIN Institute (The National Institute
of Physic and Nuclear Engineering), Bucharest, at my Diploma
thesis "The Collective
Expansion of the Nuclear Matter in Extreme Conditions of Pressure and
Temperature" (in Romanian)
High school:
June 1992
Theoretical High School ''Horia Hulubei'',
Bucharest