Flaviu Turcu

Principal Investigator

Flaviu Turcu received his BSc. Eng. and PhD degrees in Physics from Babes-Bolyai University in 2001 and 2007, respectively working in Magnetic Resonance in general and solid-state NMR in particular. During gradschool Flaviu was Marie Curie Fellow with Prof. Arno Kentgens at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he worked on the Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM) instrumentation development. He was a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Jianzhi Hu at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland WA, where was developed the instrumentation for high pressure and temperature Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). The capability was deployed to fundamental understand the parameters associated with mineral transformation and the kinetics of dissolution and precipitation rates in mineralogy, relevant to CO 2 subsurface storage. Dr. Turcu re-joined Babes-Bolyai University as staff scientist in 2012 and then as an Assistant Professor in 2013. His research interests are in the development of in situ capabilities for magnetic resonance spectroscopies (MRS) and imaging (MRI) and their application for addressing the physical, chemical and biological problems arising across the scientific disciplines.