Dumitru Baleanu is a Professor at the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele Bucharest, Romania. He received a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Atomic Physics in 1996. Since 2000 he has been visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University Ankara, Turkey. His fields of interest are: fractional dynamics and its applications in science and engineering, fractional differential equations and their applications, discrete mathematics, mathematical physics, soliton theory, Lie symmetry, dynamic systems on time scales, wavelet method and its applications, quantization of systems with constraints, Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, geometries admitting generic and non-generic symmetries.
His H index is 78. He is an editorial board member of several international journals.
Dumitru won the following international awards:
2019– Obada Prize. The Obada-Prize recognizes and encourages innovative interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy, and progress and promote the scientific, technological, and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world.
2018– ICFDA2018 Award: Innovation in Fractional Calculus. This award is granted to inventors of new patents that address significant problems and have a great perspective using fractional calculus in real-world applications.
He has been a Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics since 2015. Dumitru is the author or co-author of 15 books published by Springer, Elsevier, and Taylor and Francis.