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EMIL RACOVITA


INSTITUTE OF SPELEOLOGY

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HISTORIC

The "Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology, the first one in the world dealing with cave research, was founded by the enterprising, well-known scientist Emil Racovita (1868-1947), biologist, polar explorer and pioneer of the Biospeleology, the foundation of the institute being endorsed by a special law, issued on April 26th, 1920.

In the first years, the institute was included in the Faculty of Sciences from Cluj, the official framework in which the scientist moved also the headquarters of the "Biospeologica" Scientific Society, founded by him in 1907, as an international body designed to coordinate the activity of all zoologists involved in the subterranean fauna research.

Along with Emil Racovita, at the institute from Cluj, two eminent biologists undertook their research: Rene Jeannel, French entomologist and remarkable biogeographer, and Pierre-Alfred Chappuis, Swiss researcher dealing with the study of the subterranean aquatic fauna.

In 1956, the institute managed by Professor Constantin Motas (1891-1980) was reorganized, in its new structure having the main headquarters in Bucharest and a branch in Cluj, while four years later it received the nowadays name ("Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology) and it was taken under the patronage of the Romanian Academy and the management of the professors Traian Orghidan and Margareta Dumitrescu.

In the next decades, to the extensive biospeleological research schedule initially conceived by Emil Racovita in order to get an accurate reconstitution of the subterranean realm natural history, physical speleology and paleontology studies have been added.

Nowadays, organized under the patronage of the Romanian Academy, the "Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology comprises five departments involved in specific research trends and programmes:

MAIN RESEARCH TOPICS
  • • Taxonomic, phyllogenetic, biogeographic and ecological studies on subterranean environments, in order to highlight their diversity and complexity.
  • • Studies on the crystallography and mineralogy of the cave environment.
  • • Reconstitution of the Quaternary climate oscillations, by applying the U-Th radiometric dating method in our own laboratory.
  • • Studies on the fossil mammal assemblages.
  • • Study of geochemical processes taking place in carstice and related environments.
  • • Study on the karst systems complexity and distribution, regional karstology research.
  • • Karst environment protection and its vulnerability to pollution.
RESEARCH FIELDS
  • • Biospeleology and Edaphobiology
  • • Geospeleology and Karstology
  • • Geochronology and Paleontology
  • • Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry
  • • Karst Environment Ecology and Protection
  • • Karst vulnerability management

HUMAN RESOURCES

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER I
  • • Ph.D. Constantin MARIN
  • • Ph.D. Oana MOLDOVAN
  • • Ph.D. Silviu CONSTANTIN
  • • Ph.D. Daniel VEREȘ

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER II
  • • Ph.D. Daniela BORDA
  • • Ph.D. Eugen NITU
  • • Ph.D. Andrei GIURGINCA
  • • Ph.D. Alexandru PETCULESCU
  • • Ph.D. Alexandra HILLEBRAND-VOICULESCU
  • • Ph.D. Aurel PERŞOIU
  • • Ph.D. Marius ROBU
  • • Ph.D. Raluca BĂNCILĂ
  • • Ph.D. Ioana MELEG
  • • Ph.D. Traian BRAD
  • • Ph.D. Rodica PLĂIAŞU
  • • Ph.D. Virgil DRĂGUȘIN

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER III
  • • Ph.D. Augustin NAE
  • • Ph.D. Ruxandra NĂSTASE-BUCUR
  • • Ph.D. Sebastian Ionuț POPA
  • • Ph.D. Marius VLAICU
  • • Ph.D. Alin TUDORACHE
  • • Ph.D. Cristian-Mihai MUNTEANU
  • • Ph.D. Ionuț MIREA
  • • Ph.D. Ioana NAE
  • • Ph.D. Nicolae CRUCERU
  • • Ph.D. Ștefan Cătălin BABA
  • • Marius KENESZ

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER
  • • Ph.D. Luchiana FAUR
  • • Răzvan ARGHIR
  • • Valerică TOMA
  • • Cătălina HAIDĂU

SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT RESEARCHER
  • • Robert Florin Opran

ASSISTANT
  • • Nicolae ARGINTARU
  • • Floarea RĂDUCA

ASSOCIATE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER
  • • Ph.D. Cristian GORAN - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Sanda IEPURE - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Nenad BUZJAK - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Vlad CODREA - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Tiziana DI LORENZO - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Angelica FEURDEAN - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Ulrich HAMBACH - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Monica IONIȚĂ-SCHOLZ - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Ilinca JUVARA-BALȘ - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Cristian LASCU - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Jack LONGMAN - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Christos PENNOS - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Ioana PERȘOIU - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Șerban SÂRBU - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Cristian SITAR - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Ionel Grigorie TABACARU - cercetător asociat
  • • Ph.D. Laura TÂRLĂ - cercetător asociat

ORGANIZATION

GENERAL MANAGER: Ph.D. Constantin MARIN

DEPUTY MANAGER: Ph.D. Virgil DRĂGUȘIN

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL

  •  • Ph.D. Constantin Marin - Scientific Council President
  •  • Ph.D. Dumitru MURARIU - Scientific Manager
  •  • Ph.D. Raluca BANCILA - Head of Biospeleology and Edaphobiology of the Karst Compartment
  •  • Ph.D. Silviu CONSTANTIN - Head of Geospeleology and Karstology Compartment
  •  • Ph.D. Marius VLAICU - Head of Karstonomy, Karst Inventory and Protection Compartment
  •  • Ph.D. Alin TUDORACHE-
  •  • Ph.D. Cristian MUNTEANU - Scientific Council Secretary
  •  • Ph.D. Traian BRAD - Member
  •  • Ph.D. Alexandru PETCULESCU - Member

COMPARTMENTS AND OFFICES

  •  • BIOSPELEOLOGY AND EDAPHOBILOGY OF THE KARST
  •  • GEOSPELEOLOGY AND KARSTOLOGY
  •  • KARSTONOMY, KARST, INVENTORY AND PROTECTION
  •  • HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY
  •  • CLUJ-NAPOCA
  •  • JURIDICAL
  •  • ACCOUNTING FINANCIAL
  •  • ADMINISTRATIVE

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