Lucian Dascalescu (M’93–SM’95) graduated with first class honors from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1978, received the Dr.Eng. degree in electrotechnical materials from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, and the Dr.Sci. degree and the “Habilitation à Diriger de Recherches” diploma in physics from the University “JosephFourier,” Grenoble, France. His professional career began at CUG (Heavy EquipmentWorks), Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 1983, he moved to the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, as an Assistant Professor, later becoming an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. From October 1991 to June 1992, he received a research fellowship at the Laboratory of Electrostatics and Dielectric Materials (LEMD), Grenoble, France, where he returned in January 1994, after one year as an Invited Research Associate and Lecturer at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, and three months as a Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Fluids, Poitiers, France. For four years, he taught a course in electromechanical conversion of energy at the University Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France. In September 1997, he was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering and Automated Systems and Head of the Electronics and Electrostatics Research Unit at the University Institute of Technology, Angoulême, France. Since 1999, he has also been Head of the Department of Management and Engineering of Manufacturing Systems. He is the author of several textbooks in the field of electrical engineering and ionized gases. He is the holder of 14 patents, has authored more than 70 papers, and was invited to lecture on the electrostatics of granular materials at various universities and international conferences in China (1988), Poland (1990), the U.S. (1990, 1997, and 1999), Japan (1992, 1993), France (1991 and 1993), the U.K. (1998), Romania (1999), Canada (2001), and Belgium (2002). Prof. Dascalescu is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and Vice-Chair of its Electrostatics Processes Committee. He is a member of the Electrostatics Society of America, Electrostatics Society of Romania, Société des Electriciens et Electroniciens (SEE), and Club Electrotechnique, Electronique, Automatique (EEA) France.

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