Ion Cotaescu
Born in 1943, Ion I. Cotaescu is graduate and Ph.D. in theoretical physics of the University of Bucharest. He is retiring now as professor and Ph.D advisor at the Physics Faculty of the West University of Timisoara, where he was dean (1990-1996) and chairman (1998-2011). He was one of the editors in gravitation and cosmology of the Central European Journal of Physics (2006-2011). In over 60 of published papers in international journals he focused on the quantum theory on flat or curved backgrounds, obtaining results in: 331 gauge theories, symmetries and supersymmetries in general relativity, generalized Dirac monopoles and the theory of quantum fields on the de Sitter, anti-de Sitter and Taub-NUT backgrounds.