Gheorghe Păun (; born December 6, 1950, in
Cicănești
Cicănești is a commune in Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania
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,
Argeș County
Argeș County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Muntenia, with the county seat at Pitești.
Demographics
At the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, the county had a population of 569,932 and the population density was . At the 2011 Ro ...
) is a
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...
from
Romania
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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
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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
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...
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''.
References
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
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