Gheorghe Păun | Research Group on Natural Computing

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Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
Corresponding Member of The Romanian Academy.
Former "Investigador de Reconocida Valía en el Proyecto de Excelencia P08-TIC4200"
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Gheorghe Păun (born on December 6, 1950) graduated the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, in 1974 and received his Ph.D. in mathematics (with specialization in computer science) from the same university in 1977. He held a research position at the University of Bucharest, and from 1990 to 2015, when he retired, he was at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, as a senior researcher. His main research areas are formal language theory and its applications, computational linguistics, DNA computing, and membrane computing; this last research area was initiated by him, in 1998, and the respective models are now called P systems, see http://ppage.psystems.eu). He is the honorary president of IMCS, the International Membrane Computing Society – see, e.g., http://membranecomputing.net/IMCSBulletin/index.php. He has published a large number of research papers (collaborating with many researchers worldwide), has visited and lectured at over 100 universities in Europe, Asia, and North America, and gave numerous invited talks at recognized international conferences. He has published eleven monographs in mathematics and computer science (some of them translated in Japanese, Chinese, Russian), has (co)edited over seventy collective volumes and special issues of journals, and also published many popular science books, books on recreational mathematics (games), and fiction books. He was or still is a member of the editorial board of more than two dozens international journals and was/is involved in the program/steering/organizing committees for many international conferences and workshops.
In 1997 he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy and from 2006 he is a member of Academia Europaea. He also got many other honors, in Romania or abroad (professional and literary prizes, honorary citizenship titles, six doctor honoris causa titles, etc.). In 2009 he was included in the ISI Highly Cited Scientists category, see http://isihighlycited.com.
His main research fields are:

Formal language theory (and applications)
DNA Computing
Membrane Computing (initiator of this area; see http://esi-topics.com, February 2003, and http://ppage.psystems.eu)

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