RALUCA OANA COSTAN                                                                        

 

Address:

 

Home: Macului Str., no. 1, bl. I20, ap. 3, Calarasi, Romania

phone : +40 723050700, e-mail: oana1177@yahoo.com

 

Office: National NMR Laboratory, P. O. Box 15 – 221, Bucharest. Phone: +40 21 410 62 65,

oana1177@yahoo.com (address for correspondence)

 

Education:

 

            2002 – present

 

Graduate Student, Ph. D. Program at "Politehnica" University, Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Department, Bucharest, Romania.

 

Advisors: Prof. PhD. Eng. Corneliu Tarabaseanu Mihaila and Prof. PhD. Ionel Mangalagiu ( Vice-dean “Al. I. Cuza” University IASI)

Thesis: « 1, 2 Diazine Heterocycles. Synthesis, Structure, Applications. Biological Active Compounds and Dyes  ».

 

 1997 – 2002

 

"Politehnica" University, Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Department, Bucharest, Romania

Degree/Title: Chemical Engineer, Thesis : “The influence of encapsulation of urease enzyme in liquid membranes on their biological activities“.

 

Professional experience :

 

July 2002 – present

 

-     Research Assistant, National NMR Laboratory, Bucharest

(www.spectroteam.ro/nmr); operate and perform various types of NMR experiments, (1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, COSY, HMQC, HMBC, NOEDIFF, phosphorous liquid NMR), maintenance work for the Bruker Avance 400 DRX NMR instrument

-     NMR and IR/NIR analytical support for several research groups from the "C.D. Nenitzescu" Institute of the Romania Academy, Bucharest, Romania – involved in synthesis and analysis of heterocyclic and polyfunctional organic compounds.

      -     NMR analytical support for R&D group led by Prof. Eugenia Kovacs, Biophysics Research Department at "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. Study of various biofluids: urine, cerebrospinal fluid, blood and tears; assisting the NMR practical works for MS students from the Biophysics Department.

-    NMR and IR analytical support for Macromolecular Chemistry Department, "Politehnica" University, Bucharest, Romania led by Prof. PhD. Eng. Horia Iovu (Vice-dean at Faculty of Industrial Chemistry). Performed experiments on various polymeric materials.

-    NMR and IR for Prof. PhD. Corneliu Tarabasanu Mihaila from Organic Chemistry Department, "Politehnica" University, Bucharest, Romania. Studies on phthalo-cyanine.

     -    NMR and IR/NIR analytical support for R&D Institute "Oltchim"

Ramnicu Valcea, Romania. Study of poly-ether compounds.

 

Special skills:

 

·                    Computer skills: operator Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Origin, ChemWin, ISIS Draw, XWin-NMR, OPUS.

·                    Extensive experience and skilful operator for Bruker 400 MHz NMR instrument, and for IR-NIR instruments, knowledge in interpreting NMR and IR spectra for various liquid materials.

·                    Foreign languages

 

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Scientific activities :

 

Advance-Special Courses

 

1. "Non-invasive Biophysical Methods and their application in Biology and Medicine", The International Autumn School organized by Romanian Society for Pure and Applied Biophysics, International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics, International Society of Bioelectrochemistry in collaboration with Biophysics Research Departament, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Timisu de Sus – Predeal, Romania, October 07-12, 2003. (fellowship participant).

 2. “BRUKER NMR Users Meeting from CENTRAL EUROPE”, The 5th Central European NMR Symposium,  Lodz, Poland, September 22 -23, 2003 (participant).

 3. “The Fourth International Dubrovnik NMR Course & Conference” – Participation at DU-NMR , organized by Inter – University Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 28-July 2003, (fellowship participant).

      4. “Summer school on Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy – From Elemental Notions to the Latest Developments and Applications”, The 10th International Workshop on MRI an MRS - organized by The Romanian Cultural Foundation in collaboration with the International Council of Scientists for Romania, Sinaia, Romania, June 02-06, 2003, (fellowship participant).

  5. “Applications of High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy in Biomedical Diagnosis”, The 5th International Symposium of Molecular Medicine, Society and Public Health on: NMR Spectroscopy. Principles and Biomedical Applications, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, March 2003, (fellowship participant).

       6."NMR applications for edible fluids study”, Annual Scientific Session for         CERES Program December 2-3, 2002, (participant).

      7. “The 3rd international Conference of the Chemical Societies of the       South-eastern European Countries on the New millennium – an Endless Frontier ” Bruker Stand, Bucharest, Romania, September 2002, (fellowship participant).

 

Conference Participation

 

      1.“Measurement of early metabolic disorders in urine due to type II diabetes mellitus using magnetic rezonance spectroscopy of proton”, C.Ciurtin, L.I.Stefan, R.O.Costan, E.Kovacs, C.Deleanu. International School of Biophysics, “Non – invasive Biophysical Methods and their application in Biology and Medicine”, Timisu de Sus – Predeal, Romania, October 7 – 12, 2003. Poster presentation.

 

2. "Synthesis of driman-7,8,9a,11-tetraol from drim-7-en-8-one" , A.G.Ciocarlan, P.F.Vlad, M.N.Colta, G.N.Mironov, C.Deleanu, R.O.Costan. The 1th International Conference of the Moldavian Chemical Society "Achievements and perspectives of modern chemistry" Chisinau, Moldova, October 6-8, 2003. Oral Presentation.

 

3. "Synthesis of drim-7en-8a,11,12-triol-6-one – a key intermediate for the preparation of biologically active polyfunctional drimanes - from larixol", A.G. Ciocarlan, M.N. Coltsa, P.F. Vlad, C. Deleanu, R.O. Costan, A. de Groot. The 1th International Conference of the Moldavian Chemical Society "Achievements and perspectives of modern chemistry" Chisinau, Moldova, October 6-8, 2003. Oral Presentation.

 

4. “NMR spectroscopy applied to nutrition and metabolism”, R.O. Costan, C. Deleanu, E. Kovacs, L. Stefan, C. Ciurtin. The 13th Romanian International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” Bucharest, Romania, September 16-20,2003. Oral presentation.

 

 5. “FT – IR Characterisation of Epoxy – Ester Waterborne Resin Used in Coatings”, S.A.Garea, R.O.Costan, C.Deleanu, H.Iovu, The 13th Romanian International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” Bucharest, Romania, September 16-20,2003. Oral presentation.

 

 6. “H and C NMR Study of Epoxy – Ester Waterborne Resin”, S.A.Garea, R.O.Costan, C.Deleanu, H.Iovu, The 13th Romanian International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” Bucharest, Romania, September 16-20,2003. Poster  presentation.

 

7. "Design and diastereoselective synthesis of chiral polidentate ligands from pyrylium salts: 5-amino-pentane-1,3 diol derivatives", C. Uncuta, E. Bartha, C.I. Tanase, A. Darvarescu, R.O. Costan, C. Roussel, N. Vanthuyne, Yu.A. Simonov, V.Ch. Kravtsov, The 13th Romanian International Conference on Chemistry and Chemical Engineering” Bucharest, Romania, September 16-20,2003. Poster presentation.

 

 8. “Symmetry vs. Asymmetry in new tetrapyrrolic compounds”, R. Socoteanu, M.R. Vieira Ferreira, I. Chiorescu, R. O. Costan, M.C. Buzas, C. Deleanu, C. Patroescu. The 11th Physical Chemistry Conference – ROMPHYSCHEM 11, Timisoara, Romania, September 2-5, 2003. Poster presentation.

 

 9. "Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of urine – identification and measurement of metabolites ", R. O. Costan, C. Deleanu, E. Kovacs, L. Stefan, C. Ciurtin.  The 27-th National Chemistry Conference – Romanian Academy of Science, Calimanesti, Romania, October 23-25, 2002. Poster presentation.