Laurentiu is the head of  the Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics Group at the Institute of Space Science.  He has a PhD in Astrophysics and  has valuable expertise in Black Hole Physics, Astroparticle Physics, sources of cosmic rays, galaxies studies. He also  has extensive skills of data analysis with experience in working with astronomical databases, catalogs and data mining. 

Ana is Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Space Science and has worked on several ESA missions. She has expertise in scientific data analysis, cosmological simulations and theoretical modelling and development of scientific data processing pipelines. Her current research activity is focused n developing artificial intelligence based low-latency pipelines for fast processing and characterisation of the signals detected by LISA.

http://www.spacescience.ro/~lcaramete/

http://www.spacescience.ro/~avasile/

Development of a LLP subsystem for the detection of EMRI gravitational waves (very complex sources expected to be detected by LISA, mainly because of the degeneracies appearing in the parameter space)

Using the FEW (Fast EMRI Waveforms) software and other LDC tools to simulate LISA-like signals from EMRIs with different intrinsic and extrinsic parameter’s values, for training a NN and then to recognize such a signal without or with galactic noise

Ovidiu Țânțăreanu, PhD

Alice Păun, PhD 

Scientific Researcher

Junior Researcher

CNN architectures for classification of superposition of multiple EMRI GW signals using local and global features from GW spectrograms.

NN with automatic feature extraction for detection and characterization of EMRI GW’s.

Low-latency CW alert infrastructure for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (database, API, alert distribution, web interface).

Alice is a PhD student at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest and has been a Scientific Research Assistant since 2018. She is also a member of the KM3NeT collaboration, thus her research is mainly focused on analysing the sensitivity of the detector, optimising it for nuclearites. Besides all this, she studies exoting scenarios of black holes growth.

ovidiut@spacescience.ro

alice.paun@spacescience.ro

Maria Ișfan, PhD student

Florentina Pislan, PhD student

Junior Researcher

Junior Researcher

Maria-Catalina Isfan is a Scientific Research Assistant since July 2021 and also a PhD student at University of Bucharest. Her work is centred on quantum computing algorithms for space missions and space applications, with a focus on quantum neural networks and quantum walks.

Florentina is a PhD student at the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest and has been a scientific research assistant since the summer of 2021. Part of her work consists in developing multi-messenger studies, MBHB catalogs, simulating gravitational waveforms for parameter estimation studies and benchmarking neural networks algorithms for gravitational wave characterization.  Also. Starting from the beginning of 2024, Florentina is one of the LECS co-chairs.

mariaisfan@spacescience.ro

fcpislan@spacescience.ro

Monica Scorța, Engr

Junior Researcher

Florin is a PhD student at the Faculty of Physics, UniBuc, and has worked at the Institute of Space Sciences since 2018. He was part of multiple projects (monitoring the ionosphere over Romania, the LISA CAS subsystem), working on data processing. He now still does data processing for gravtiational wave parameter estimation.

Monica is an aerospace engineer, alumni of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, UNSTPB and scientific research assistant in the Astrophysics, Cosmology and Theoretical Physics laboratory. She has also completed 3 ESA courses (Space Standards, ESA/ELGRA Gravity-Related Research and CubseSat Summer School). She is a member of the PA/QA team within the LISA space mission and is working on improving the gravitational wave experimental setup.

fliconstantin@spacescience.ro

andreea.scorta@spacescience.ro

Andrei Militaru

Junior Researcher

Cezar Ionescu

Asistent de Cercetare Științifică

Cezar has been a member of the LISA project since October 2025. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics, specializing in Technological Physics, and completed a Master’s degree in Theoretical and Computational Physics at the University of Bucharest. His research focuses on developing geometric and analytical approaches for studying gravitational waveforms, particularly addressing the problem of distinguishing between signals originating from a single source and those produced by multiple sources, as well as approximating multi-source configurations in the context of LISA data analysis. In parallel, he is interested in the study of coherence in open quantum systems and the fundamental limits of quantum control in the presence of decoherence.