Gheorghe Păun (; born December 6, 1950, in

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) is a

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from

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, prominent for work on

membrane computing Membrane computing (or MC) is an area within computer science that seeks to discover new computational models from the study of biological cells, particularly of the cellular membranes. It is a sub-task of creating a cellular model. Membrane comp ...

and the P system. Păun studied mathematics at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

, obtaining an MSc. in 1974 and a PhD in 1977 under the direction of Solomon Marcus. He has been a

researcher Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

at the

Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy The "Simion Stoilow" Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy is a research institute in Bucharest, Romania. It is affiliated with the Romanian Academy, and it is named after Simion Stoilow, one of its founders. History On December ...

since 1990. Păun was elected a member of the

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in 2006, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 2012. He supervised the PhD thesis of 5 students. In 2016, he was awarded the title of ''Doctor Honoris Causa Scientiarum''.

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External links

Gheorghe Paun's webpage
Theoretical computer scientists Romanian bioinformaticians 1950 births Living people Members of Academia Europaea Titular members of the Romanian Academy University of Bucharest alumni People from Argeș County {{Europe-compu-bio-stub