PhD Thesis:
“Contributions to optimization of parallel robots“, 2007, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, PhD supervisor: Prof. dr. ing. Nicolae Plitea.

      Master degree:
-"Study and design of the control system for a parallel robot with 3 degrees of freedom", supervisor: Prof. dr. Ing. V. Mătieș.

      Bachelor's degree:
- Student at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, major in mechatronics: Industrial Robots and Flexible Fabrication Systems (5 years in English language).
- Diploma work realized in Germany at Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF - Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik - Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Hesselbach), of TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY CAROLO-WILHELMINA OF BRAUNSCHWEIG, work financed from research grant "DFG-1099 Fertigungsmaschinen mit Parallelstruktur", research theme: "Analysis and optimization of machine-tools with parallel structure".

      Specializations:
- Germany, Technical University of Braunschweig, 1.02.2003-31.08.2003, SOCRATES/ERASMUS.
- France, L'INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE MECANIQUE AVANCEE (IFMA) Clermont-Ferrand, 8.07.2005-15.07.2005.
- Germany, TU Berlin, GAMM scholarship, 27-31 March, 2006.
- DiMSAT, University of Cassino, Italy, 3 weeks 4-25 May 2006.
- France, L'INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE MECANIQUE AVANCEE (IFMA) Clermont-Ferrand, 7.02.2007-20.02.2007.
- Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie Scholarship, June 10-15, 2007.
- Zürich, GAMM scholarship, 16-20 July, 2007, Switzerland.
- Greece, Patras, IEEE scholarship, 24-28 September, 2007.
- Zürich, Mathworks GmBH, December 2007, Switzerland.
- Paderborn, dSPACE GmBH, January 2008, Germany.
- Cassino, University of Cassino, February 2008, Italy.
- IFMA, French Institute of Advanced Technology, Clermont-Ferrand, March 2008, France.
- BIBA, Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, Bremen, Germany, 2008.
- University of Salford, Greater Manchester, June 2008, United Kingdom.
- University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, July-August 2008, USA.
- University of Rousse, September 2008, Rousse, Bulgaria.
- MDDA, FP7-Project Finance Course, Manchester, September 2008, United Kingdom.
- Hildebrand, London, September 2008, United Kingdom.
- MDDA, FP7-Project Meeting, Manchester, and Hildebrand, London, December 2008, United Kingdom.
- MDDA, FP7-Project Meeting, Manchester, January 2009, United Kingdom.
- Hildebrand, FP7-Project Meeting, London, April 2009, United Kingdom.
- IFMA, French Institute of Advanced Technology, Clermont-Ferrand, May-July 2009, France.
- Hildebrand, FP7-Project Meeting, London, August 2009, United Kingdom.
- MDDA, FP7-Project Meeting, Manchester, October 2009, United Kingdom.
- Hildebrand, FP7-Project Meeting, London, February 2010, United Kingdom.
- Robotics Laboratory, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of West England, Bristol, February 2010, United Kingdom.
- Hildebrand, FP7-Project Meeting, London, June 2010, United Kingdom.
- Robotics Laboratory, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of West England, Bristol, June 2010, United Kingdom.
- University of Rousse, July 2010, Rousse, Bulgaria.
- University of Idaho, Idaho Falls, August 2010, USA.
- Hildebrand, FP7-Project Meeting, London, August 2010, United Kingdom.
- Birmingham City Council, FP7-Project Meeting, Birmingham, October 2010, United Kingdom.
- Rome, Grundvig-Project Meeting, Rome, November 2010, Italy.
- Imperial College, London, November 2010, United Kingdom.
- University of Rousse, FP7-Project Meeting, Rousse, December 2010, Bulgaria.
- University of Seville, Grundvig-Project Meeting, Seville, February 2011, Spain.
- Delft University, Delft 2011, The Netherlands.
- Grundvig-Project Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, May 2011, France.
- Tsinghua University, FP7-Project Meeting, Beijing, August, 2011, China.


      International conferences:
- IEEE-ISIE 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia;
- GAMM 2006, Berlin, Germany;
- ICIAM2007 Zürich, Switzerland;
- MOFIT 2007, Dublin, Ireland;
- IEEE-ETFA’07, Patras, Greece;
- EUROMECH-EMMC10, Warsaw, Poland;
- IFToMM 12, 2007, Besançon, France;
- DAAAM2007, Zadar, Croatia;
- IEEE-EPQU2007, Barcelona, Spain;
- GAMM 2008, Bremen, Germany;
- IEEE-DEST 2008, Pitsanoluk, Thailand;
- IEEE-HSI 2008, Krakow, Poland;
- EG'2008, Malta;
- DAAAM 2008, Trnava, Slovakia;
- ICT 2008, Lyon, France;
- ICT 2009, Budapest, Hungary;
- IEEE-ICIT 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
- IEEE-ISRCS 2010, Idaho Falls, USA.
- DAAAM 2010, Zadar, Croatia.
- European IEE Energy – Europe, Brussels, Jannuary 2011, Belgium.

      Scientific and didactical activity

1. articles:
- over 100 scientific published papers
2. books:
- 1 book, 9 book chapters, 1 book as co-editor
3. research grants: over 20 (6 as director of projects).

      Present funded grants

1. CNMP - PARTENERIATE 72197/1.10.2008:
- Complex mechatronic systems for medical applications (Oct.08-Sep.11, total grant funding of 1950000 RON).
2. Grundvig programme ("Framework for intercultural learning in education" Grundvig Project 2010-1-GB2- GRU06-03607 6, national ID: GRU-10-P-LP-48-CJ-UK") -1.08.2010-31.07.2012 (15000 EUR).

      Invited reviewer (journals):
- reviewer Springer - Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
- reviewer ASME Journal
- reviewer AUTOMATICA Journal, a journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control
- reviewer Electronics Letters Journal (The Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- reviewer Journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
- reviewer Journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- reviewer Journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- reviewer ELSEVIER Journal - Information Sciences
- reviewer ELSEVIER Journal - Aerospace Science and Technology
- reviewer Journal Scientific Research and Essays
- reviewer ELSEVIER Journal Mechanism and Machine Theory
- reviewer International Journal of Modelling and Simulation - Acta Press

      Invited editor:
- Associate Editor of International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (IJSCC), ISSN (Online): 1755-9359 - ISSN (Print): 1755-9340
- Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics (JOSER) ISSN 2035-3928.
- Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics (IJBBR) ISSN (Online): 1757-6806 - ISSN (Print): 1757-6792.
- Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT) ISSN (Online): 1741-5047 - ISSN (Print): 0952-8091.
- Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE) ISSN (Online): 2046-3405 - ISSN (Print): 2046-3391.
-International Editorial Review Board member of journal IJMMME (International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering).
- Guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - special issue on “Digital Ecosystems and Cyber Engineering” ISSN: 0278-0046.
- Editor of Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics (Versita, co-published with Springer Verlag), ISSN: 2080-9778 (print version), ISSN: 2081-4836 (electronic version).
- Editorial Advisory Board Member for Handbook of Research on Industrial Informatics and Manufacturing Intelligence: Innovations and Solutions.

      Invited reviewer (conferences):
- IEEE-CASE 2006, IEEE-ICRA 2007, IEEE-CIRA 2007, IEEE-IROS 2007, IEEE-CISSE 2007, IEEE-ACC 2008, IEEE-ICRA 2008, IEEE-ICIEA 2008, IEEE CIS-RAM 2008, IEEE-MED 2008, IEEE-HSI 2008, IEEE-IROS 2008, IEEE-IECON 2008, IEEE-ETFA 2008, IEEE-CISSE 2008, IEEE-ICIT 2009, ECC 2009, IEEE-HSI 2009, IEEE-DEST 2009, IEEE-INDIN 2009, IEEE-AIM 2009, IEEE-ETFA 2009, IEEE-IECON 2009, IEEE-ISRCS 2009, IWSECO 2009, IEEE-HSI 2010, IEEE-DEST 2010, IEEE-ISMA 2010, ICSOB 2010, IEEE-AIM 2010, IEEE-ETFA 2010, SIMPAR 2010, ERLARS 2010, CCCA 2011, IFAC WC 2011, 2011, IEEE-IROS 2011, ASME-IDETC/CIE 2011, IEEE-HSI 2011, IEEE-ISRCS 2011.

      Invited Programm Committee member of:
- International Programme Committee member of Track 7: "Intelligent Robots and Systems" of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE-ETFA 2009, 22-25 September 2009, Mallorca, Spain.
- International Programme Committee member of Track 6: "Computational Intelligence and Modern Heuristics in Automation" of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE-ETFA 2009, 22-25 September 2009, Mallorca, Spain.
- program committee member of The First International Workshop on Software Ecosystems (IWSECO’09) 27th of September 2009, in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
- International Programme Committee member of Track 5: "Computational Intelligence and Modern Heuristics in Automation" of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE-ETFA 2008, 15 -18 September 2008., Hamburg, Germany
- International Programme Committee member of Track 6: "Intelligent Robots and Systems" of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, IEEE-ETFA 2008, 15 -18 September 2008., Hamburg, Germany
- International Programme Committee member for young researchers and scientists, DAAAM 2008.
- Technical committee member of IEEE-IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics.
- International Programme Committee member of: "Intelligent Robots and Systems Track" of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (IEEE-ETFA 2010), University of Bilbao, September 13-16, Bilbao, Spain.
- International Programme Committee member of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2010), 13-16 April, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- International Programme Committee member (Simulation in Robotics section) of the 8th annual Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC'2010), June 7-9, 2010, Ramada Plaza Hotel, Budapest, Hungary.
- Programme committee of CONFERINTA NATIONALA DE EDUCATIE TEHNOLOGICA SI TEHNOLOGII EDUCATIONALE 2009 (CNET&TE 2009), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, June 4-5, 2009, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- International Programme committee of 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modelling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (Simpar 2010), November 15-18, 2010, Darmstadt, Germany.
- International Programme committee member of ICSOB 2010, The First International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2010), June 21.-23, 2010, Jyväskylä, Finland.
- International Programme committee member of ICEC 2010, International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2010), October 24-26, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
- International Programme committee member of IEEE-ICAR 2011, THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS TALLINN JUNE 20 - 23 / 2011.
- International Programme committee of ICAART 2011, 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, January 28-30, 2011, Rome, Italy.
- International Programme committee member of ICSOB 2011, The 2nd International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2011), June 8.-10, 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
- International Programme committee member of IEEE-ICINCO 2011, 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 28-31 July, 2011.
- International Technical Program Committee & Reviewer of ASME/IEEE MESA 2011, The 7th International ASME/IEEE Conference on Mechatronics & Embedded Systems & Applications August 28-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA.
- International Programme committee member of IEEE-AINA 2012, The 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012) Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Fukuoka, Japan, March 26-29, 2012.

      Invited Track Chair of:
- Track chair of: "Mechatronics and the Digital Environment" of Third IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2009), 1-3 June 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Track co-chair of: "Intelligence Track" and member of the Technical Program Committee of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction (IEEE-HSI 2009), University of Catania, May 21-23, 2009, Catania, Italy.
- Technical Programme Chair of 2010 International Conference on Robotics (Robotics 2010), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Sept. 23-25, 2010, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- Co-Track Chair on Track 1 Intelligence, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction (IEEE-HSI 2010), University of IT and Management in Rzeszow, Poland, May 13-15, 2010.
- Track Chair of Special Session Robotics and Mechatronics at the 3rd International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (IEEE-ISRCS 2010), August 10-12, 2010, Idaho Falls, USA.
- Special Session Co-Chair of International Conference on Communications, Computing and Control Applications (CCCA'11), March 3-5, 2011 at Hammamet, Tunisia.

      Public talks & seminars:
- Stan, S.-D., Invited Keynote speaker – IEEE Technical Seminar, 29 July 2008, Idaho Falls, United States of America, Title: "Mechatronics Research at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca".
- Stan, S.-D., Invited lecture, University of Cassino, Cassino, Italy, Title: "Mechatronics", February 2008.
- Stan, S.-D., Invited talk, IFMA, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Title: "Optimal design of mechatronic systems", March 2008.
- Stan, S.-D., Invited talk, IFMA, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Title: "Virtual Reality Control of Mechatronic Systems", June 2009.
- Stan, S.-D., Invited talk, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of West England, Bristol, United Kingdom, Title: "Mechatronic Research at Cluj-Napoca - Virtual Reality Control of Parallel Robots", February 2010.
- Stan, S.-D., Invited talk, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of West England, Bristol, United Kingdom, Title: "Energy Efficiency", June 2010.
-Stan, S.-D., Invited talk, University of Idaho, United States of America, Title: "Mechatronic design: energy efficiency and current research at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca", August 2010.