The first Romanian elected as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States
Dr Ruxandra Vidu, laureate of the Constantin Brâncoveanu International Awards 2018 (New York) in the Science category, has been selected as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors of the United States of America.
The Alexandrion Foundation presented the Constantin Brâncoveanu International Awards in the United States for the first time in November 2018. The ceremony took place inside the famous New York Public Library. The Constantin Brâncoveanu International Awards are the major step taken by the Alexandrion Foundation in recognising international values, making this gala an event of worldwide scope. In 2018, the 5th edition of the Constantin Brâncoveanu Awards in Bucharest took place under the banner of the Centenary of the 1918 Union, at the Royal Palace. In addition, the Constantin Brâncoveanu Diaspora Awards have already had editions in London, Munich and Paris.
The laureates of previous editions of the Constantin Brâncoveanu Awards can be found on the Alexandrion Foundation website: https://www.fundatia-alexandrion.ro/gala-premiilor-constantin-brancoveanu/.
Dr Ruxandra Vidu, laureate in the Science category, became in August this year the first Romanian elected as a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States. Dr Vidu has been, since 2012, a UC Davis Fulbright Alumna and is President of the Romanian-American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The senior members of the National Academy of Inventors in the United States are active university professors and scientists from its member institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have made, or aspire to make, a real impact on the welfare of society. They have also demonstrated success in patenting, licensing and commercialisation.
“Dr Vidu is an internationally renowned expert, among the few researchers who integrate materials science, chemistry, physics and biology for systems engineering at the nanoscale, to design materials at the nanometre scale with unique size-dependent properties. The significance of Dr Vidu’s innovation has been recognised by numerous high distinctions and honours.” – said the nominating committee. ”
A complete list of NAI senior members is available at www.academyofinventors.org
The National Academy of Inventors is an organisation that brings together international universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with more than 4,000 individual members and inventors, spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide. It was founded in 2010 to recognise and encourage inventors.
