Dr. Vrinceanu was born and raised in Romania. As a student at the "Mihai Viteazul" High School in Ploiesti, he was awarded the bronze medal at the International Physics Olympiad held in London. This scientific competition is the equivalent of the Olympic Games for sports and considers the very best students that represent their own countries. Immediately after obtaining his University degree in Mathematical Physics, he was offered the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Bucharest University.

He obtained his doctoral degree in Theoretical Atomic Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The problem treated in his PhD Thesis made a significant theoretical contribution providing an elegant and efficient solution to an outstanding problem incapable of being solved for more than 40 years. In recognition, he was awarded the Sigma-Xi award of Best Ph.D Thesis 2001  and he was selected for Thesis Prize of the American Physical Society of Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP).

At the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Dr. Vrinceanu was the leader in a theoretical investigation of strongly magnetized antihydrogen atoms, aimed to clarify understanding and interpretation of the recent experiments at the European Center for Nuclear Reseach (CERN) by Harvard scientists. Their results on formation and electric field ionization of highly excited anti-hydrogen atoms are ground breaking and completely changed the way the experimental data is analyzed. For the upmost importance of the research, their work published in Physical Review Letter was featured on the journal cover.

Dr. Vrinceanu was granted the prestigious Director Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he worked on large scale Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of cold magnetized and un-magnetized plasmas.

• ITAMP Fellow: 2001 – 2004, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  Independent research in Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics 
  
  
• PhD in Physics: 1996 – 2000, Georgia Institute of Technology
  GPA: 4.0, Supervisor: Prof. M. R. Flannery 
  PhD Thesis: Quantal-Classical Correspondence in Atomic Collisions
   
• MS in Physics: 1986 – 1992, Bucharest University 
  Graduated in the first 3% from 100 students in the class with the graduate diploma thesis
  in Theoretical Physics: Quantum Groups and Hopf Algebra 

• Assistant Professor: Sep. 2010 - present, Texas Southern University
   
• Visiting Professor: 2008 – 2010, Texas Southern University 
  
  
• Director Fellowship: 2004 – 2008, Los Alamos National Lab oratory 
  
  
• ITAMP Fellowship: 2001 – 2004, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 
  
  
• Visiting Assistant Professor: 2000 – 2001, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  
  
• Teaching Assistant: 1996 – 2000, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  
  
• Assistant Professor: 1992 – 1996, Bucharest University 
  
  
• Researcher: 1993 – 1994, Biophysics Lab., Center for Biotechnologies, Bucharest 
  

• Director Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory – 2004 
  
  
• Finalist in DAMOP Thesis Award competition of American Physical Society – 2002 
  
  
• Sigma Xi Award for the best PhD Thesis – 2001 
  
  
• Motorola SPS Fellowship – 1998 
  
  
• Gill Amelio Fellowship – 1998 
  
  
• Bronze Medal at the 17th International Physics Olympiad – London, 1986 
  
  
• Romanian government scholarship for accomplished student, 1989 - 1992 
  

Seed Grant, Texas Southern University, Decoherence Related Challeges in Quantum Computing, Spring 2009 ($15,000)

Theoretical studies of: 

• matter at extreme conditions: novel computational algorithms for ultracold ionized gases, ultrafast  pulses, quantum computing and BEC 
  
• formation, capture and detection of anti-hydrogen atoms in a Penning trap 
  
• interaction and collisions in ultracold Rydberg gases and frozen plasmas, electron impact ionization of Rydberg atoms, interaction between Rydberg atoms, radiative processes involving Rydberg atoms, three-body recombination 
  
• collisional and radiative properties of metastable helium atoms, collisional broadening and shift of  atomic and ionic lines