DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: August 12, 1936, Pitesti, Romania

MARITAL STATUS: Married, one son

EDUCATION:

	June 1954 - Graduated from College
	July 1959 - M.A. (Mathematics), Bucharest University
	July 1963 - Ph.D. (Probability), Bucharest University, Thesis: Chains with complete connections with an arbitrary set of states
	December 1969. Earned a second doctoral degree equivalent to the title of professor

BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT:

	1959-1962 Consultant, Central Dept. of Statistics
	1961-1963 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Dept. Polytechnical Institute, Bucharest
	1963-1968 Research worker, Institute of Mathematics and Centre for Mathematical Statistics
	1968-1969 Head of underdepartment, Centre for Mathematical Statistics
	1969-1976 Head of Dept. of Probability and Statistics, Centre for Mathematical Statistics
	1976-1989 Head of Centre for Mathematical Statistics
	April 1990-present  Director of Centre for Mathematical Statictics (Romanian Academy)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Real Analysis.

PUBLICATIONS: 111 research papers, and 12 books.

DISTINCTIONS:

	1965 and 1972	Awarded prizes of the Romanian Academy for contributions to the theory of dependence with complete connections and theory of random processes when modelling biological and medical phenomena
	1970	Elected a member of the International Statistical Institute
	1971	Elected an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, England
	1975	Awarded the bronze medal of the Helsinki University
	1991	Elected a Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy
	1993	Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Acadé miques

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

	1974, 1991, 1996 and 1998	Université René Descartes (Paris V)
	1977/78	Mainz Universität
	1979/80	Frankfurt am Main Universität
	1981/82	Bonn Universität
	1991	Melbourne University
	1997	Université de Lille 1
	1998 and 1999	Université de Bordeaux 1

A MEMBER OF: Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (since 1969-on the council 1975-1979), the Biometric Society (since 1968-on the council 1976-1979).

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES:

	Probability Theory and Related Fields (1972-1989)
	Biostatistica (1989-1998)
	Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1989-1993)
	Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1976-1992)
	Mathematica (Cluj) (since 1992)
	Deputy editor of Revue Roumaine de Mathé matiques Pures et Appliqué es (since 1983)
	Co-editor of the Proceedings of the Brasov Conference on Probability Theory (1971, 1974, 1977, 1982) and of the volume Studies in Probabilitty and Related Topics:Studies in Honour of Octav Onicescu on His 90th Birthday (1983)

PH.D.SUPERVISING: University of Constanta, Romania

INVITED SPEAKER at international scientific meetings in Budapest (1972), Vilnius (1973, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1989), Varna (Bulgaria) (1979 and 1993), Prague (1978,1986), Warsaw (1981, 1990), Bad Honnef (Germany) (1982), Salonika (1987), Olsztyn (Poland) (1988), Palermo (1988), Uppsala (1990), Blaubeuren (Germany) (1991), Amsterdam (1993), Paris (1994), Compiègne (1998) and many others which I was unable to attend.

SHORT VISITS (2 UP TO 3 WEEKS) ABROAD UNDER THE EXCHANGE AGREEMENTS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY: former URSS (1964, 1970), former Chechoslovakia (1965, 1967), Poland (1966, 1975, 1976, 1983, 1990), Hungary (1972), France (1979), Austria (1983, 1986), Great Britain (1969, 1984), West Germany (1985), Sweden (1987, 1992, 1995).

LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF: Moscow (1964), Warsaw (1966, 1976, 1990), Vilnius (1970), Vienna (1971), Oxford (1972, 1984), Sheffield (1972), Swansea (1972), Paris (V and VI)(1972, 1991, 1992, 1996), Paris (Orsay) (1991), London (1972, 1984), Cambridge (1972,1984), Braunschweig (1978), Duisburg (1978), Paris (Institut de Statistique) (1979, 1980, 1982), Heidelberg (1978, 1985), Frankfurt am Main (1978, 1981, 1985), Bonn (1978, 1985), Dü sseldorf (1980), Mü nchen (1980), Mainz (1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1991), Eichstä tt (1982), Salonika (1984, 1990), Manchester (1984), Trondheim (1987), Stockholm (1987, 1992, 1995), Gö teborg (1987, 1992, 1995), Uppsala (1987, 1992, 1995), Linkö ping (1987, 1992), Florence (1988), Pisa (1988), Melbourne (1991), Sydney (1991), Canberra (1991), Clermont-Ferrand (1992), Nancy (1992), Lille (1993, 1996), Le Mans (1993), Delft (1994, 1995, 1998), Bordeaux (1996).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS