Viorel PAUNOIU

Viorel PAUNOIU, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Dunarea de Jos University of Galati (1984), PhD in Industrial Engineering, at Dunarea de Jos University of Galati (1998), Habilitation in Industrial Engineering 2023. His main academic competences are CAD technologies and equipment’s for plastic deformation; numerical simulation of plastic deformation processes; unconventional technologies for plastic deformation; control and inspection in sheet metal forming. He is Director of the Research Center in Manufacturing, CCITCM from 2013 and Head of Cold Plastic Deformation Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati. Prof. Paunoiu participated in over 35 research projects supported by Romanian Ministry of Education and Science; author/co-author of over 10 scientific or didactic books; over 120 scientific papers written or co-authored, published in indexed Journals and International Conferences proceedings; author/co-author of 8 patents. He was editor of the journal The Annals of Dunarea de Jos University of Galaţi, Fascicle V, Technologies in Machine Building. He is founder of the International Conference NEWTECH – New Technologies in Manufacturing. Member and local responsibile of some important professional and scientific associations, from Romania and abroad.