Ion Mihailescu
Ion N. Mihailescu is university professor and senior scientific researcher (1st degree) at the National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania (www.inflpr.ro). He has a large experience in laser interactions, lasers and plasma physics, nanostructured thin-film technology, nanopowder generation and characterization, surface physics and engineering, laser spectroscopy, and materials processing by advanced laser technologies. He has authored 441 publications, 195 scientific papers published in proceedings of international conferences, and 20 books and monographs and holds 12 patents. He has an h-index of 36 and an i10-index of 181 (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-5403-2011). He is the first recipient (1994) of the Galileo Galilei award for “outstanding contribution in the field of optics” and has also received the Doctor Honoris Causa of Université Cergy-Pontoise, France (2015).