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== Professional career ==

He went through all stages of his university career as an assistant and lecturer at the Faculty of Geology (1966–1990). Since 1991 onwards, he is a professor of Mineralogy at the [[University of Bucharest]]. He was also a visiting professor at [[Duke University]] in the [[United States]] between 1991 and 1992. He was elected vice-rector (1990–1992) and rector (1992–1996) of the University of Bucharest; president of the National Council of Rectors from Romania (1992–1996); member of the Permanent Committee of the Association of European Universities – CRE (1992–1993; 1994–1998); member of the International Association of University Presidents – IAUP (1994–1996).

He is the author of 12 books and over 60 studies in the field of geology, published in prestigious scientific journals in the country and abroad. He is also Honorary Member and Elected Member of the Geological and Mineralogical Societies of the [[United Kingdom]], [[Germany]], US, [[Greece]], and [[Japan]]; of the Geographical Society of [[France]] and the [[National Geographic Society]] of the USA.

He gave lectures at the Universities of Tübingen, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia – New York, Georgetown – Washington, Indiana – Bloomington, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Prague, Turku, Cairo, Lublin. He was awarded the [[Romanian Academy]] Award for scientific contributions in the field of geology (1980); Palmas Academicas, awarded by the [[Academia Brasileira de Letras|Brazilian Academy of Letters]], Rio de Janeiro (2000); gold and honorary medals of the [[Comenius University]] in Bratislava; [[Charles University]] in Prague and [[University of São Paulo]]; Arthur Bertrand Medal, awarded by the Academy of Sciences, Institut de France; medals awarded by the National Institute of Sciences and Arts of France, the [[Sorbonne University|University of Paris–Sorbonne]] and the [[University of Amsterdam]].