Prof. Dr. Cristian Silvestru

Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Inorganic Chemistry Department
Room 117

Arany Janos Str. 11
400028 Cluj-Napoca
Romania

Phone: +40 264 593833
Fax: +40 264 590818
E-mail: cristi (at) chem.ubbcluj.ro

Education Babes-Bolyai University
1975 - 1979
 Undergraduate Student
BSc Thesis title: “New Organotin(IV) Derivatives of Diorganodithiophosphinic Acids”
1979 - 1980 MSc in Inorganic Chemistry
MSc Thesis title: “Organoantimony(III) Complexes of Organophosphorus Acids”
1986-1990 PhD in Organometallic Chemistry
PhD Thesis title: “Organometallic Compounds with Potential Biologic Activity (Antitumor Activity). Synthesis and Structural Characterization”
Career Babes-Bolyai University
1989 - 1990 Research Chemist
1990 - 1993 Lecturer
1993 - 1995 Associated Professor
1995 - present Professor
Awards
1992 “Gh. Spacu” prize of the Romanian Academy for studies on the antitumor properties of organometallic compounds
shared with Dr. Carmen Socaciu and Dr. Adela Bara
1995 - 2000 Vice-dean
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Babes-Bolyai University
2001 General Manager of the National Centre for X-Ray Diffractometry (NCXRD)
2002 Central European Journal of Chemistry
Regional Editor for Organometallic Chemistry
Research visits  
Chemistry Department (ROMLISS – British Council programme)
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
 October 1992 - November 1992
Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie (visiting professor)
Bremen Universität, Bremen, Germany
 January 1993 - March 1993
Instituto de Quimica (visiting research professor)
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
 April 1993 - August 1993
November 1993 - April 1995
Faculty of Applied Science (EC COST programme)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium 		September 1993 - October 1993
Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie (DAAD postdoctoral research fellowship)
Bremen Universität, Bremen, Germany 		October 1996 - November 1996
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (RSC grant for international journal authors)
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 		May 1999 - July 1999
Department of Chemistry (visiting research associate)
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA 		Ferbuary 2000 - June 2000
Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie
(DFG project HYPERVALENZ - 436 RUM 113/19/0-1)
Bremen Universität, Bremen, Germany 		November 2001
November 2002
November 2003
Departamento de Quimica Inorganica (NATO research fellow)
Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 		February 2004 - November 2004
Books and book chapters
  1. Organometallics in Cancer Chemotherapy. Vol. 1. Main Group Metal Compounds,
    Ionel Haiduc and Cristian Silvestru,
    CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 1989, 256 pag.
    ISBN 0-8493-5867-1

  2. Organometallics in Cancer Chemotheraphy. Vol. II. Transition Metal Compounds,
    Ionel Haiduc and Cristian Silvestru,
    CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 1990, 366 pag.
    ISBN 0-8493-5868-X

  3. Supramolecular associations in organotin, organoantimony and other main group organometallic compounds,
    I. Haiduc and C. Silvestru,
    in “Main Group Elements and Their Compounds”, V.G. Kumar Das (Ed.), Narosa Publ. House, New Delhi, India, 1996, 355-369;
    ISBN 81-7319-071-2

  4. Organoantimony(III) compounds: a new class of organometallic antitumour agents,
    C. Silvestru and I. Haiduc,
    in “Main Group Elements and Their Compounds”, V.G. Kumar Das (Ed.), Narosa Publ. House, New Delhi, India, 1996, 453-462;
    ISBN 81-7319-071-2