Resume

Mihai E. Vaida

EDUCATION:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, (Apr. 2011 – Sept. 2016) Advisor: Prof. Dr. Stephen R. Leone

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Institute of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany (Jul. 2010) Advisor: Prof. Dr. Thorsten M. Bernhardt

M.S. in Physics, West University of Timişoara, Romania & Free University of Berlin, Germany (Jul. 2004) Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ludger Wöste

B.S. in Physics, West University of Timişoara, Romania (Jul. 2002)

HONORS AND AWARDS:

-Research Incentive Award, University of Central Florida (2023)

-Excellence in Research Award, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida (2022)

-NSF CAREER Award (2020)

–UCF Vice President of Research’s Advancement of Early Career Researchers Award (VPR-AECR) (2019)

–Erasmus Plus Visiting professor– Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany (Jul 2018)

–Top five young surface scientist in the competition for Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award at the Annual Conference of the German Physical Society (2013)

–Travel award for the 55th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2005)

–Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship for graduate studies at Ulm University, Germany (2004-2007)

–European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students scholarship for master degree studies at Free University of Berlin, Germany (2003-2004)

–Erasmus-Socrates Scholarship for master degree studies at Free University of Berlin, Germany (2002-2003)

–Merit Scholarship for outstanding results (average grade: 10 out of 10, i.e. GPA 4.0) at West University of Timişoara, Romania (2000-2002)