HMM 2009 - Session KA

Chair: E. Della Torre

The organizers of HMM-2009 are proud to present our first keynote speaker, Alexandru Stancu. His address is Preisach model and FORC based identification techniques applied to various hysteretic processes.

Alexandru STANCU is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, ROMANIA. He is the Director of the Centre of Applied Research in Physics and Advanced TecHnologies (CARPATH) which is organized within the University. He is also the Director of the Integrated Platform for Advanced Studies in Molecular Nanotechnologies (AMON). He was Head of Department between 2000 and 2006 (Electricity and Physical Electronics 2000-2004, Solid State and Theoretical Physics 2004-2006). He is the Chair of the Romanian IEEE Magnetics Society, a Senior IEEE member and he is also member in the Technical and in the Educational Committees of IEEE Magnetics Society. He was a member of the Scientific Council for the Romanian Strategy for Scientific Research from 2007 to 2013. As partner in the FP6-EU Network of Excellence MAGMANet he is a member of the network Governing Board and member in the Implementation Council of the European Institute for Molecular Magnetism.

He was invited professor in France, USA, Japan and Taiwan. He is the author of about 200 ISI papers in the domains of magnetism, hysteresis theory, magnetization processes modelling and perpendicular recording. He is Knight of the Order Merit in Education in 2004 (Romanian Ministry of Education).

His main scientific interest is on magnetism and magnetic materials. He is internationally recognized for the results he obtained in the study of non-linear physical processes with hysteresis in magnetic, ferroelectric and other types of materials. He contributed significantly to the development of the Preisach modelling and to the profound understanding of the physical basis of the phenomenological models of hysteresis.