ROMANIAN ACADEMY
Romanian Academy
Calea Victoriei, nr 125, sector 1
010071, Bucureşti, www.acad.ro
President
Prof. Ionel HAIDUC
Phone: 021 212 8651
Fax: 021 312 02 09
E-mail: ihaiduc@acad.ro
Vice-presidents
Prof. Dan BERINDEI
Phone: 021 212 8631
Fax: 021 2126608
E-mail: dan.berindei@ acad.ro
Prof. Cristian HERA
Phone: 021 212 86 54
Fax: 021 212 86 54
E-mail: hera@acad.ro
Prof. Marius SALA
Phone: 021 312 53 42
Fax: 021 312 53 42
E-mail: hermina@acad.ro
Prof. Ionel Valentin VLAD
Phone: 021 212 86 58
Fax: 021 211 66 08
E-mail: v_i_vlad@acad.ro
Secretary General
Prof. Păun Ion OTIMAN
Phone: 021 312 27 59
Fax: 021 312 27 59
E-mail: otiman@acad.ro
MISSIONS AND STRUCTURE OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY
The Romanian Academy is an institution of public and national interest meant to
conduct research in the fundamental fields of science and culture, of higher professional
training, with legal personality and independent in its activities of any kind. These missions
are reflected by the following main tasks:
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The Romanian Academy is Romania’s highest national forum of scientific and cultural
consecration as it has received among its members the most outstanding personalities in
the field os science and culture.
The Romanian Academy is a high forum in fundamental scientific research owing to the
activity in its sections, branches and in the system of its own research institutes.
The Romanian Academy trains young researchers by means of doctoral degree and post
doctoral studies.
The Romanian Academy has the function of thesaurisation/ information/ documentation/
publication by means of the activity of the research support-institutions of the Romanian
Academy – The Library of the Romanian Academy and the Publishing House of the
Romanian Academy.
The Romanian Academy is an active participant in Romanian society life by debates,
taking attitudes and advising in point of problems of high scientific, national and
international interest.
The Romanian Academy is a partner in the collaboration with other academies, and in the
collaboration in international programmes and projects.
The Romanian Academy is organized and operates according to Law no.752/2001.
The Romanian Academy is organized in specialized sections and has branches in Cluj
Napoca, Iaşi and Timişoara. The scientific activity of the Romanian Academy is carried out in
the specialized sections, research institutes and centres and by means of national committees,
commissions and advisory working groups made up of members of the Romanian Academy
and other personalities in the field of science and culture.
The Romanian Academy has the following sections:
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III)
IV)
V)
VI)
VII)
VIII)
IX)
X)
XI)
XII)
XIII)
XIV)
Section of Philology and Literature
Section of Historical and Archaeological Sciences
Section of Mathematical Sciences
Section of Physical Sciences
Section of Chemical Sciences
Section of Biological Sciences
Section of Geonomics Sciences
Section of Technical Sciences
Section of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences
Section of Medical Sciences
Section of Economics, Law and Sociological Sciences
Section of Philosophical, Theological, Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences
Section of Arts, Architecture and Audio-Visual
Section of Information Science and Technology
The fundamental research system of the Romanian Academy includes 47 research
institutes with legal personality, 11 units subordinated to a branch and 8 units subordinated to
a larger institute.
Romanian Academy mainly promotes fundamental research without excluding
applicative research. The research institutes and centres of the Romanian Academy vary
considerably in point of number of researchers from 220 certified researchers (National
Institute of Economic Research) to only 5 researchers (Institute for the History of Religions).
In the year 2013 the number of certified researchers is 1869 and of PhD holders is 1576.
DOCTOR’S DEGREE IN THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY
In the Romanian Academy the doctoral studies are organized according to the
provisions of the Law of national education and Law no.752/2001 on the organization and
operation of the Romanian Academy, to which later completions and modifications are
addedd.
In the Romanian Academy the institution organizing the doctoral studies (IOSUD) is
the School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy (SCOSAAR). The doctoral
studies are organized on the basis of SCOSAAR Regulations, approved by the Presidium and
General Assembly of the Romanian Academy.
The fundamental objective in organizing the doctoral studies in SCOSAAR is to train
highly qualified specialists for academic scientific research, for tertiary education and for
fields of didactic activity in universities as well as in management and administration.
SCOSAAAR structure is presented in Figure 1. The SCOSAAR president is a vice-president
of the Romanian Academy, nominated by the Romanian Academy President’ resolution. In
the period 2010-2014, the nominated president in this function is Prof. Ionel Valentin Vlad.
Figure 1. The structure of SCOSAAAR
In the present academic year, in SCOSAAR 923 PhD students are being trained out of
which about half are from the research system of the Romanian Academy. Every year about
130 students get their doctoral degree in this Doctoral School.
Table. The PhD supervisors and students in the departments, branches and institutes of
the Romanian Academy (in the academic year 2012/2013)
DEPARTMENT
Department of exact sciences
3 members R.A.
Department of life, medical and agricultural
sciences
12 members R.A.
Department of humanistic sciences
7 members R.A.
Department of economic, social and legal
sciences
4 members R.A.
Department of engineering, mechanical,
computing sciences
2 members R.A.
Department of Cluj-Napoca Branch
2 members R.A.
Department of Iaşi Branch
2 members R.A.
Department of Timişoara Branch
2 members R.A.
TOTAL PhD Supervisors/Students
PhD
Research institutes of Romanian Academy with
Supervisors/
acreditation for PhD activity
Students
28 / 105
34 / 208
18 / 155
39 / 239
“Gheorghe Mihoc-Caius Iacob” Institute of
Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics.
"S. Stoilow"Institute of Mathematics
Astronomical Institute
“Ilie Murgulescu” Institute of Physical Chemistry
“Costin D. Nenitescu” Centre for Organic
Chemistry
“Mihai Drăgănescu”Research Institute for
Artificial Intelligence
“Emil Racovita” Institute of Speleology
“Nicolae Simionescu” Institute of Cellular Biology
and Pathology
Institute of Biochemistry
Institute of Biology
Institute of Geography
“Sabba S. Stefanescu” Institute of Geodynamics
‘Stefan S. Nicolau” Institute of Virology
“F. Rainer” Institute of Anthropology
National Institute of Neurology and Neurovascular
Diseases
“ Iorgu Iordan-Al.Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics
“George Calinescu” Institute of Literary History
and Theory
Institute for SouthEast European Studies
"V. Pârvan"Institute of Archaeology
"N. Iorga" Institute of History
Institute of Psychology
“Constantin Radulescu Motru” Institute of
Psychology
“ Constantin Brailoiu” Institute of Ethnography
and Folklore
“Costin C. Kiritescu” National Institute of
Economic Research
Legal Research Institute
Institute of Solid Mechanics
3 /19
10 / 73
19 / 108
4 / 16
155/923
"G. Bariţiu" Institute of History
“Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular
Chemistry
"A. D. Xenopol"Institute of History
Institute of de Archaeology
Institute of Computer Science
Institute of Chemistry