Professor Dr. Alida Timar-Gabor
alida.timar@ubbcluj.ro
Laboratories:
Luminescence dating and dosimetry
Electron spin resonance
Nuclear spectrometry
Hyperspectral cathodoluminescence
MEMBERS
Alida Iulia TIMAR-GABOR
Professor dr.
alida.timar@ubbcluj.ro
Róbert-Csaba BEGY
Associate Professor dr.
robert.begy@ubbcluj.ro
Curriculum Vitae
Mihai DUCEA
Professor dr.
ducea@arizona.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Daniela CONSTANTIN
Researcher dr.
daniela.constantin@ubbcluj.ro
Curriculum Vitae
Ramona BĂLC
Lecturer dr.
ramona.balc@ubbcluj.ro
Curriculum Vitae
Anca AVRAM
Lecturer dr.
anca.avram@ubbcluj.ro
Curriculum Vitae
Aditi DAVE
Researcher dr.
a.dave@mpic.de
Curriculum Vitae
Zuzana KABACINSKA
Researcher dr.
zuzanna.kabacinska@ubbcluj.ro
Curriculum Vitate
Laura DEL VALLE VILLALONGA
Researcher
lauradelvalle.geo@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Szabolcs KELEMEN
PhD Student
kelemen_szabolcs@ymail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Codrin Fabian SAVIN
Research technician
codrin.savin@stud.ubbcluj.ro
Curriculum Vitae
Alumni (2016- present)
- PhD Khalif BENZID
- PhD Madălina GROZA-SĂCACIU
- PhD Valentina ANECHITEI-DEACU
- PhD Oana ANTOHI-TRANDAFIR
- PhD Viorica TECȘA
- PhD Monica ZECIU-DOLHA
- PhD Andrada PAȘCU
- PhD Barna BIRO
- PhD Hedvig SIMON
RESEARCH TOPICS
- Luminescence and electron spin resonance dating.
- Developing novel provenance methods using point defects in quartz.
- Investigating the luminescence properties of unconventional materials.
- Environmental radioactivity and dosimetry.
- Pb-210 dating.
RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
Electron spin resonance spectrometer in X band (9.8 Ghz) and Q band (34 GHz) with variable temperature control (100-600 K), model Bruker EMXplus, produced by Bruker BioSpin GmBH.
Automatic thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence readers, model Risø DA-20-C/D produced by Tehnical University of Denmark – three systems out of which 2 have single grain measurement options.
High resoluction alpha betta and gamma spectrometry ( 4 alpha detection cells, 2 high purity germanium detectors and an LSC sistem).
Chemical preparation laboratory.
RAD 7 radon detector
TESLA Radon Monitor “RADIM 3AT”
Projects
European Research Council Grant 101043356, Horizon Europe, “Reading provenance from ubiquitous quartz: understanding the changes occurring in its lattice defects in its journey in time and space by physical methods (PROGRESS)”, 2023-2027, PI Alida Timar-Gabor. facebook, description
European Research Council Grant 678106, Horizon 2020, „Integrated dating approach for terrestrial records of past climate using trapped charge methods (INTERTRAP)”, 2016-2021, PI Alida Timar-Gabor.
- EEA-RO-NO2018-0126, „Cave deposits as archives of climate and environmental changes. A Center of Excellence in speleological research”, grant coordinated by Silviu Constantin, ”Emil Racovita” Speleology, 2019-2023, BBU partener PI Alida Timar-Gabor. link
- PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0895, „To what extent can uncertainties on luminescence ages be reduced: a field study on the variability of ages obtained on coeval sedimentary samples”, 2020-2022 PI Daniela Constantin. link
- PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2016-0016, „Premierea H2020 Integrated absolute dating approach for terrestrial records of past climate using trapped charg methods”, 2016-2021, PI Alida Timar-Gabor. link
- PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0814, „Studies on the effects of land use changes on soil erosion and increased sedimentation using radionuclides”, 2018-2020, PI Robert Begy. link
- PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2021-0213″Carbon sinks or sources: assessing the impact of climate change and anthropic activities on peat development in SE-Europe over the last 150 year (CLIMPEAT)” 2022-2024 Pl Robert-Csaba Begy link
MEDIA AND OTHER LINKS
From Atoms And Radiations Towards Quantitying Geological Processes
ERC project examples
Elsevier Women in Physics
JRC Annual Event on the Scientific Support to the Danube Strategy