Last name:  HAIDUC        First (given) name:  Ionel

 Date and place of birth:  May 9, 1937;  Cluj (Romania)

Education:
M.Sc. (chemistry):  1959 - Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Ph.D. (chemistry):  1963 - Institute of Fine Chemicals Technology, Moscow (USSR) with a thesis supervised by Acad. K.A. Andrianov (inorganic polymer and organosilicon chemistry).

Postdoctoral training:
16 months (1966-1968) - Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA (organosilicon and organometallic chemistry, with Prof. Henry Gilman).
10 months (1971-1972) - University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (organometallic chemistry, with Prof. R.B. King).

Languages known:
Romanian (mother tongue), English (fluent), Russian (fluent), French (well), Spanish (well), German (moderate, technical), Hungarian (moderate).

Employment: 
1959 - to date, permanent positions in the Chemistry Department of "Babes-Bolyai University" Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1959 - laboratory assistant
1962 - assistant
1964 - lecturer
1969 - reader (associate professor)
1973 - to date - full professor.

Visiting Professorships and other positions abroad:
1992 - NSF Visiting Scientist, Chemistry Department, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (one month)
1993 - European Commission Visiting Scientist, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (two months)
1993 - 1994 Visiting Professor, Instituto de Quimica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F. (18 months)
1994 - Visiting Professor, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil (two weeks)
1997 - Humboldt Forschungsaufenthalt, Chemisches Institut, Otto von Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany (3 months) (Humboldt Fellowship)
1997 - Consultant, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
1998 - Visiting Professor, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (two months)
1998 - 1999 (4 months) - Gauss Visiting Professorship granted by Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften, at Anorganisch Chemisches Institut, Göttingen Universität, Germany
1999 - UNESCO Expert, Consulting Mission in the Republic of Moldova (4-9 April 1999)
2000 - Visiting Professor, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil (two months)
2000 - 2001 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
2002 (March-May) Visiting Professor, Anorganisch Chemisches Institut, Göttingen Universität, Germany (Humboldt Fellowship)
2002 (December) Visiting Scientist, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2003 - March, Visiting Lecturer, University of Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
2004 - Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
2005 - Consultant, Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.

Administrative and public positions held:
1976 - 1984     Prorector (vice-president) "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1990 - 1993     Rector (president) "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1995 - to date   President, Transylvania Branch of the Romanian Academy
1992 - to date   Board Member, National Council for Academic Research
1992 - to date   Board Member, National Council for Academic Titles and Diplomas
1996 - to date   Member, Grant Committee of the Romanian Academy
1998                  Member, National Council for Academic Reform
1998 - 2000      Vicepresident, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
1998 - 2003      President, Consultative College of the National Agency for Research, Development and Innovation
1999                  Founding member, National Foundation for Science and Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2006 - to date   President, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Memberships in international committees:
            1993 - to date   International Council of Main Group Chemistry
            1991 - 1993       Alliance of Universities for Democracy (Board of Directors)

Membership in Editorial Boards of Professional Journals:
            Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-organic Chemistry (New York)
            Main-Group Metal Chemistry (London-Tel Aviv)
            Metal-Based Drugs (London)
            Science and Engineering Ethics (Guildford, UK) 
            Revue Roumaine de Chimie (Bucuresti)
            Revista de Chimie (Bucuresti)