Keynote
Keynote

Florin Miculescu
Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Faculty from National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
Title of the keynote presentation: 3D printed bone reconstruction products with improved antibacterial and mechanical properties
He has completed five postdoctoral research stages in Europe and the USA, contributing to numerous national and international research projects in materials science, engineering, and technology.
His scientific output includes over 160 papers indexed in Web of Science Clarivate Analytics (h-index >30), books, book chapters, edited volumes, and patents.
Prof. Miculescu serves as an Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor for several WOS-indexed journals. He is currently Director of the Doctoral School of his faculty and former President of the Materials Engineering and Science Committee within CNATDCU (Romanian Ministry of Education).
He has received more than 100 awards for scientific contributions, including recognition for publications, conference presentations, and patents.

Dr. Cosmin M. Cotrut
Associate Professor at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest
He was invited professor at several foreign universities, including Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille (France) and Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia).
Main research interests:
• Degradation and corrosion of biomaterials
• Surface biofunctionalization for enhanced osseointegration and antibacterial properties (biomimetic hydroxyapatite coatings doped with Mg, Sr, Ag, Zn)
• Biocompatibility and tribological property improvement (PVD coatings: nitrides, carbides, oxides, metallic glasses)
• Control of biodegradable alloy degradation (polymer/PVD coatings)
• Development of new Ti-based biocompatible alloys (classic & additive manufacturing), including surface nanostructuring and coating
Editorial roles:
• Editorial Board Member – Scientific Reports (Springer Nature)
• Editorial Board – Heliyon (CellPress)
• Editorial Board – Coatings (MDPI)
• Guest Editor – Thin Solid Films, Frontiers in Materials

Daniel Munteanu
Vice-Rector for Students and Liaison with the Economic and Socio-Cultural Community at Transilvania University of Braso
He obtained his Ph.D. in 2002 through a collaboration with Rubig GmbH Austria and Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. In 2006, he completed a postgraduate program in Foreign Trade and International Business at the World Trade Center Tokyo. Since 2009, he has been a Ph.D. supervisor in Materials Engineering, with 7 theses completed and 3 in progress.
He coordinated multiple Erasmus/Socrates bilateral agreements with international universities, including Minho University (Portugal), Peradeniya University (Sri Lanka), Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), and Cyprus University of Technology.
Currently, he coordinates the Entrepreneurship in Materials Engineering B.Sc. program at UNITBV. He has published over 100 scientific articles and has led several major projects, including 4 national research grants (as Director), and contributed to 13 additional national and international projects.
He was the Romanian coordinator of the European Horizon 2020 project DREAM (2016–2019) and Director of the Bridge Grant CALINDRUL (2016–2018), focused on eco-friendly inductive hardening technology, in collaboration with Schaeffler Romania.
He also coordinates projects funded by the Institutional Development Fund of the Ministry of Education, related to student entrepreneurship and labor market integration.
Prof. Munteanu chaired the International Conference of Materials Science and Engineering – BRAMAT (editions: 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022) and co-chaired the Nano-engineered coatings and thin films symposium at EMRS Spring Meeting 2024, Strasbourg.
He served as Managing Guest Editor for journals including:
• Applied Surface Science (Elsevier)
• Materials Today Proceedings (Elsevier)
• Materials & Applied Sciences (MDPI)
• Journal of Materials Science (Springer)
• Advanced Materials Research (Trans Tech Publication)
Since 2011, he has been a member of the National Council for Certifying Academic Degrees and Diplomas (CNATDCU), Materials Science and Engineering Commission – Romanian Ministry of Education. Starting September 2024, he will serve as the President of this Commission.

Rodica Elena Ionescu
(PhD) in Biotechnological Engineering from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
On November 1st, 2008, Dr. Ionescu joined the Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT) as assistant professor and member of LNIO (now L2n – Lumière, nanomatériaux, nanotechnologies). On December 4, 2009, she obtained the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), equivalent to Associate Professor.
Since 2011, she has been qualified by the French Ministry of Higher Education for the Full Professor position in two academic sections:
• Section 31 – Theoretical, Physical and Analytical Chemistry
• Section 64 – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
With support from various grants, Dr. Ionescu developed innovative acoustic and optical platforms for ultrasensitive biomolecule and pesticide detection. In 2012, she received the OSEO national Innovation grant.
Between April 2014 and March 2015, she was Research Manager for a Proof-of-Concept Grant (NRF-POC 002-026) in Singapore, at Nanyang Technological University (School of Materials Science and Engineering), focused on electrochemical lateral flow biosensors for detecting Dengue virus in whole blood, under the CREATE-NTU-HUJ-BGU program.
In the last decade, Dr. Ionescu has led and contributed to major projects such as:
• Hubert Curien Partnerships (PHC)
• Laboratoire d’Excellence (LabEx)
• Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
• Contrat de Plan État-Région (CPER)
Research topics:
• Multi-analyte biosensor platforms
• (Bio)functionalization of solid/flexible substrates
• Enzymatic nanolithography
• Nanoparticle synthesis and toxicity
• Water pollutant effects on cells and microorganisms
Scientific output:
• 60+ peer-reviewed articles
• 5 book chapters
• 7 patents with 9 extensions
• 40 international conference participations

Mohamed Belmeguenai
PhD thesis at Orsay (Université Paris XI) and postdoctoral positions at Universität Regensburg (Germany)
Prof. Mohamed Belmeguenai joined the Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux (LSPM) at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord in September 2007 as an assistant professor, after completing a PhD at Université Paris XI (Orsay) and postdoctoral work at Universität Regensburg (Germany), where he focused on high-frequency magnetization dynamics in interlayer exchange-coupled NiFe/Ru/NiFe thin films.
Over the past 15+ years, he developed a broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) setup and a time-resolved magnetization dynamics measurement system. He has gained advanced expertise in nanofabrication and both conventional and vector network analyzer FMR techniques.
His main research interests include:
• Correlation between structural and dynamic magnetic properties of Heusler alloys (studied since 2007 at LSPM)
• Spin Hall effect
• Electrical control of magnetization via electric field
Since 2014, he has also investigated the **Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction** (DMI) in ultrathin films using **Brillouin light scattering**, exploring its relation with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and spin pumping-induced damping.
Scientific contributions:
• 130+ publications in peer-reviewed international journals
• Participation in 90+ national and international conferences
• 4 invited talks at international conferences
Prof. Belmeguenai is currently a **Full Professor** at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and leads an active research team at LSPM.

Leandru-Gheorghe BUJOREANU
Professor at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering from “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania
Fe-Mn-Si-based shape memory alloys: an alternative to NITINOL
In 2002 and 2005 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Special Research Center FSB 459 (Shape Memory Technology) of the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. In 2005, 2007, and 2008, Prof. Bujoreanu was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, where he participated in a research project dedicated to the use of Fe-based shape memory alloys for anti-seismic damping.
In 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2014 he was a Visiting Scholar at Particulate Materials Laboratory from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, where he has carried out research activities on Powder Metallurgy Fe-based shape memory alloys.
Prof. Bujoreanu managed four national research projects, all of them related to Fe-based shape memory alloys.
As a PhD supervisor, Prof. Bujoreanu has guided six PhD theses, related to shape memory alloys, currently has the seventh thesis, dealing with the development of new applications with work-generating shape memory effect, currently in the 3-month visibility period, and has an eighth thesis that investigates the shape memory effect occurring in some recycled polymers.