DANUT
DRAGOI
4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena,
CA
91109-8099 M/S 303-300,
Phone:
(818) 354-4820
E-mail:
ddragoi@cco.caltech.edu
web
site: www.its.caltech.edu/~ddragoi
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Materials Science, University of Denver, 08/99
Thesis title: Residual Stress Analysis of Graphite/Polyimide
Composites
M.S.,
Solid State Physics, University of Bucharest, 06/77
Thesis:
Electro Optic Effect in Ferroelectric Crystals
INDUSTRIAL
RESEARCH
Postdoctoral
Scholar, Caltech-JPL, 03/01-present
§ Holographic data storage hardware, optical engineering
§ Photo-refractive crystals characterization
Danut
Dragoi software, 01/95
§ Developed Orient 1.0 software for high
accuracy single crystal orientation
§ Principal senior scientist, Institute of Semiconductors
(ICPMS), 06/89-07/90
§ Characterization of AIIIBV semiconductors
Principal
physicist, ICPMS, 04/86-06/89
§ Silicon and GaAs wafers
characterization
Physicist,
ICPMS, 12/79-04/86
§ XRD phase identification research for the
department of analytical chemistry
Physicist,
Ferrites Urziceni, 08/77-12/79
§ Development of new technologies for
industrial production of hard and soft magnetic materials
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech-JPL, 03/01-present
§ 2-D high density holographic memories
Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech, 06/99-03/01
§ Analyze neutron diffraction data on W/BMG
composites
§ Bulk Metallic Glass Structure, high
pressure measurements
§ Determining in situ Ni spinel reduction
parameters
§ Help group members with Rietveld method
and XRD
§ Teach "Applications of Diffraction
Techniques"
§ Fundamental diffraction physics on SMART
diffractometer
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Denver,
09/97-06/99
§ Finite element modeling of metallic microinclusion
in amorphous materials
§ Eshelby modeling
§ Designed and built a four-point bending
device for XRD stresses
measurements in graphite/polyimide composites.
§ Rietveld refinements of PZT thin films
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Denver, 04/96-06/99
§ Assist students on broad subjects taught
on Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Thermodynamics, Analytical Mechanics
§ Graded homework
§ Rietveld method
Computer consultant, University of Denver, 11/94-06/99
§ Assist students with their computer
problems
§ Software and hardware maintenance of
about 100 computers
Visiting scientist, University of Denver, 07/90-06/99
§ Stress measurements using XRD
§ Crystal orientation
COMPUTER SKILLS
IBM and Mac: all current MS
programs under Windows: Excel, Power Point, Word, Scientific calculations:
Mathcad, Maple, Matlab, HiQ,
Programming in C++, C,
Fortran, Basic, True Basic, Visual Basic, html, cgi
Special x-ray diffraction
programs: DIFRAC / AT (Siemens), DM2000 (Scintag), POWD (Pen State), WinFit
(Germany), Bruker, National Instruments LabVIEW,
Finite Element: ANSYS 5.2
Rietveld programs: GSAS-PC
(Bob VonDreelle, USA), FullProf
(Juan Rodriguez Carvajal, France), DBWS9006 (R. A. Young, USA), DBWS9411 (R. A.
Young, USA), DBWS9006* (Radovan Cerny, Switzerland), KoalaRiet (Alan Coelho,
Australia), Rietica (Brett Hunter, Australia).
PUBLICATIONS
Both academic and industrial results were published in over 60 scientific papers, the list is available upon request.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Ramtron, Colorado, USA, July 1997, International School of Physics, Jesi, Italy August 1999, Annual Denver X-ray Conference, Colorado, USA, ten times since August 1990
COMPETITION
Winner of the prestigious competition "Crystallographica” in England.
Winner of HiQ, ActiveMath
for Windows 95 and Windows NT, a competition organized by National Instruments,
USA.