Towards a research pole in photonics in Western Romania

Abstract

We present our efforts in establishing a Research Pole in Photonics in the future Arad-Timisoara metropolitan area projected to unite two major cities of Western Romania. Research objectives and related training activities of various institutions and groups that are involved are presented in their evolution during the last decade. The multi-disciplinary consortium consists principally of two universities, UAVA (Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad) and UMF (Victor Babes Medicine and Pharmacy University of Timisoara), but also of the Arad County Emergency University Hospital and several innovative SMEs, such as Bioclinica S.A. (the largest array of medical analysis labs in the region) and Inteliform S.R.L. (a competitive SME focused on mechatronics and mechanical engineering). A brief survey of the individual and joint projects of these institutions is presented, together with their teaching activities at graduate and undergraduate level. The research Pole collaborates in R&D, training and education in biomedical imaging with universities in USA and Europe. Collaborative activities, mainly on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) projects are presented in a multidisciplinary approach that includes optomechatronics, precision mechanics and optics, dentistry, medicine, and biology.

Building an optomechatronics group in a young university in Western Romania

“…Future work implies both the enhancement of our research (with the effort to achieving results of interest, but also to publish in high impact journals) and of our collaborations to follow the path towards establishing the planned Photonics Pole in Western Romania [46]. • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) of rotational polygons;…”

“…We present in [46] this aspect, of our collaborative researches, and of our efforts to establish Photonics Pole in Western Romania, in the future metropolitan area Arad-Timisoara (planned to unite the two major cities in Western Romania, situated less than 50 km apart).…”