The main field of interest and scientific research is (Semantic) Web Technologies, but also I have backgrounds in the following areas: Distributed Computing and Human-Computer Interaction.
In 2004, I received the title of Doctor in Information Sciences (Cum Laude) at "A.I. Cuza" University of Iasi – title of thesis: "The Multimedia Objects Manipulation Techniques on Internet", supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dumitru Todoroi. The thesis' goal was the development of the specific techniques for spatio-temporal manipulation of multimedia objects on Web, using different formalisms (such as different temporal logics), with the help of RDF constructs, in order to give support for the Semantic Web. An extended version of the Ph.D. thesis is published as a book regarding the foundations and applications of the Semantic Web.
In 2005, I received the "Gheorghe Cartianu" Award of the Romanian Academy for outstanding scientific contributions published in 2003.
I wrote or edited some books mainly regarding different aspects of the World-Wide Web space. I am an editor of the Web series published by Polirom. The list of my publications is included in my CV. Also, I am involved in certain research projects – latest interests concern the social Web technologies applied in e-health.
I am a founder member and supervisor of WebGroup – an young research group at Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi. I served as a chair/member of the Program Committees and Organizing Committees of different (inter)national scientific events.