PERSONAL DETAILS:
Full Name: Maria Roxana POPA
Date Of Birth: 18 June 1967
Civil status: married
Nationality: Romanian
EDUCATION:
Liceul Industrial nr. 34 (School with education in German Language)
September / 1980 - July / 1985
Degree(s) or Diploma obtained: Graduate diploma
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, 6 Traian Vuia str., S.2, Bucharest, Romania, 70139
October / 1985 - July / 1990
Degree(s) or Diploma obtained: Geologist Engineer
Bucharest University of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Hydrotechnic
Tempus DEA “Science de l’eau et l’environnement”- cooperation France, Belgium, Italy end Romania
October / 1994 - March / 1996
Degree(s) or Diploma obtained: M.Sc. in Water Resources Engineering
Thesis Title: “Design of an monitoring system in an mining area using geostatistical methods”
EMPLOYMENT:
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, 6 Traian Vuia str., S.2, Bucharest, Romania, 70139
1997 - present
Position: Assistant at the Department of Engineering Geology
Activity: Tutorials on “Geological informatics” and “Geostatistics”, hydrogeological field activity with students, research and field activity in the team of different projects (see below selection)
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, 6 Traian Vuia str., S.2, 70139 Bucharest, Romania
October / 1991 - June/1997
Position: Geologist Technician at the Department of Engineering Geology
Activity: Network administrator, hydrogeological research and field activity
S.C. PROSPECTIUNI S.A., Caransebes str. 1, S.2, Bucharest, Romania
September / 1990 - September/1991
Position: Geologist engineer at the Department of Geochemistry
Activity: Member of the prospecting team of the department, field activity.
SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE RECORD:
Country Date: from (month/year) to (month/year)
Belgium (University of Liege, LGIH)
Geostatistics January/1997 March/1997
Germany (University of Tuebingen, Center for Applied Geology)
GIS and stochastic modeling November/2001 Mai/2002
France (Etablissement National d’Enseignement Superior Agronomique de Dijon, CNERTA)
SIG pour la Gestion du territoire. Utilization du logiciel MAPINFO. SIG et la ressources en eau
April/2003
Romania (Universiatatea Tehnica de Constructii Bucuresti)
Curs organizare de ESRI Romania: ArcGIS pentru avansati (ArcView 8.X for Windows)
Februarie/2004
- Attending the Short Course on Ground water Pollution (Bucharest, Romania 1993), organized by the British Council and Royal Holloway (University of London)
- Participant at the International Symposium on "Impact of Industrial Activities on Groundwater" (Constanta, Romania, 23-27 May, 1994)
- Attending the Short Course for Ground water Remediation (Bucharest, Romania, October 1994), organized by the British Council and Royal Holloway (University of London)
- Participant at the National Symposium on "Achievements and Prospective of Mining Hydrogeology" (Motru, Romania, June 1995)
- Participant at the International Symposium on "Mineral and Thermal Groundwater" (Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, 23-27 June, 1998).
- Participant at International Symposiums “Theoretical and Applied Karstology” (1986-2002)
- Attending some courses of Applied and Environmental Geology - Master at the University of Tuebingen
COMPUTING SKILLS:
Microsoft Office
Ability in using specialised PC programs for hydrogeology and engineering geology, applied to several kind of environmental problems like: GeoEAS, Variowin, Surfer, Visual Modflow
Good knowledge of MapInfo (incl. Vertical Mapper) and ArcView (incl. Spatial Analyst, Image Analist)
Basic knowledge about AUTOCAD (especially Land Development Desktop R2)
Microsoft FrontPage - maintenance of the web page of the department (www.gg.unibc.ro\hidro\)
LANGUAGE SKILLS (1 for competence to 5 for fluently)
Reading Speaking Writing
English 5 5 4
German 5 5 5
French 4 3 2
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
Romanian Association of Hydrogeologists (1992-present)
“Labyrinth” caving club (1985-present)
INTERESTS and other SKILLS:
*Traveling*
Have visited approx. 12 countries
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Luxembourg, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Swiss, Turkey
*Hobby*
Speleology, Badminton, Tennis, Ski
- Driver license category B
