CURRICULUM VITAE

Surname:     HASEGAN 
First name:  Dumitru 

Address: N.Pascu str., nr. 2, Bl. R1A, sc. A, et. 7, ap. 31, sector 3, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA; 
Date of birth: June 7, 1943 (Saliste - Sibiu). 
Status: Married 

1950 - 1961: Lyceum Nr. 3 " Ion Neculce ", Bucharest 
1961 - 1966: Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest; 
1967: Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest; 
1971: scientific researcher; 
1980: senior researcher, III -rd degree; 
1990: senior researcher, II - nd degree; 
1990: director of Institute for Gravitation and Space Sciences; 
1991: Head of the Space Science Program of the Institute of Atomic Physics; 
1992: Head of the Space Science Division of the Romanian Space Agency; 
1995: member of the Board of the Romanian Space Agency 
1995: senior researcher, I - st degree (professor) 
1996-present: director – Institute for Space Sciences 
2001: COSPAR National Committee Member 
2003: Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautic 

1977 - 1990: member of the Romanian delegation at the INTERCOSMOS Working Conferences. 

2004 – present: member of the Romanian delegation at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, COPUOS.

1981: Ph.D.   Thesis: "The Microdosimetry of Cosmic Heavy Ions"; 

1969: beginning of the collaboration with the High Energy and Nuclear Reaction laboratories from the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR; 

1972 - 1973: stipend at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Frankfurt am Main, F.R.G., for studying cosmic rays by AgCl monocrystals detectors. Measurements on the detectors exposed on APOLLO missions. 

1971 - 1974: principal investigator for "Cosmic Ray Dosimetry at the Supersonic Transport Level". First experiments on Romanian supersonic planes. 
1974: beginning of the cooperation with the INTERCOSMOS Program - Group for Cosmic Medicine and Biology, section "Protection against Cosmic Rays", for studying the fluxes as well as the energy and charge spectra of cosmic radiation in the circumterrestrial space and for the estimation of their hazard. 

1981: participant at the scientific program of the cosmic flight of the first Romanian astronaut, Dumitru Dorin Prunariu: 
 - Principal investigator of MINIDOSE and INTEGRAL experiments; 
 - Co-author of ASTRO 1, ASTRO 2 and IMMUNITY experiments; 
 - Member of the Romanian scientific delegation at the Cosmic Flight Center, Moscow. 

2006: Principal Investigator of the “GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF COLOURED FUNGI IN SPACE” – “CFS” to be caried out on the International Space Station.

Dumitru HASEGAN 

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