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Professor, IEEE Senior Member

Politehnica University of Timisoara,  www.upt.ro

Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies Faculty, www.etc.upt.ro

Applied Electronics Department 

2 V. Parvan Bv. 

300199 Timisoara, ROMANIA

aurel.gontean@upt.ro; gonteana@dhbw-loerrach.de; aurel.gontean-ext@continental.corporation.com; aurel.gontean@gmail.com

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Web of Science / Clarivate Analytics h-index: 9

Scopus h-index: 13

ResearcherID: researcherid.com/rid/W-3144-2017

Scopus Author ID: 8951598100

Orcid: orcid.org/0000-0002-1485-6710

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aurel_Gontean

Publons: publons.com/a/1410626/

Background

Aurel GONTEAN graduated the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania in 1986. He received the PhD degree in 1998, from the same university. He became a full professor in 2005.  He is IEEE Senior Member.

He is a PhD Advisor since 2008 (field: Electronics and Telecommunications); 5 PhD thesis were delivered meanwhile. 

Starting 2009, he is visiting professor at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach, Germany. From 2004 till 2012 he was vice dean of the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Timisoara, Romania. 

He has been appointed as EU expert for evaluating project proposals for the Scientific Research Fund, Sofia, Bulgaria, from 2008 to 2009. 

He published over 150 papers, 8 books, 3 chapters in international books, has over 35 contracts and grants and holds 4 patents.

His current research interests are Energy Harvesting, Memristor, Smartcities.

Trainings: 

2014 EuroTraining (Timisoara,  Romania, Microelectronics), 

2009 Agilent Training (Amsterdam, Holland, RF Advanced Measurements), 

2008 (Labview Trainings, Basics, DAQ, FPGA, US, Austin), 

1993 (Texas Instruments, Germany, TI FPGA Design). 

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Journals:

Energy Conversion and Management, Q1 IF 5.589 (2013 - )

Solar Energy  Q1 IF 4.374 (2019 - )

IEEE Access, Q1 IF 3.244 (2018 - )

Energies, Q2 IF 2.262 (2018 - )

Sustainability, Q2 IF 2.075 (2018 - )

WoS (ISI) Conferences:

TSP (2004 - ), ISETC (2004 - ), SIITME (2004 - ) 

ISSE (2008 - ).

ISCAS (2016 -)

Honours and awards: 

2019 IEEE Senior Member

2017 Best Poster Award SIITME

2015 IEEE 10 years loyalty

2014 IEEE Award

2011 Best paper Award IDAACS. 

Affiliations:

AFCEA (2013 - )

EPETRUN (2009 - )

IEEE (1999 - )

PI - TEAM, Texas Instruments (1994 - ).

Scholarships: 

1996 (3 months at Central Lancashire University, Preston, England, VLSI Design oriented), 

1995 (3 months scholarship at Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany, Programmable Logic Design oriented).