👤 Advancing sustainable materials through research, innovation and education.

Eng. Ph.D. Dumitru-Doru Burduhos-Nergiș

Expertise & Skills

  • Materials Science
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Geopolymers
  • Geopolymer Concrete
  • Concrete Technology
  • Advanced Materials Characterization

💼 Research Projects

Year Project title – Role – Funder Link
2026–2027 Project director
Development and digital optimization of sustainable geopolymer plasters based on local mineral waste and functionalized with perlite
Academy of Romanian Scientists
2025–2026 Team Member
Experimental model for biofunctionalization of Ti-Mo-Zr-Ta alloys used in orthopedic implantology (BIO-SIMTIT)
Experimental Demonstration Project (PED), Funder: Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI), Romania. Contract no 5PED/2025 , PN-IV-P7-7.1-PED
2024–2025 Project director
National Research Grants of the TUIASI, project number GNaC 2023_271/2024, Prefabricate inovative pe bază de compozite geopolimerice cu adaos de deșeuri lemnoase (Pre-Geo)
Fondul pentru Finanţarea Cercetării Ştiinţifice Universitare, contract CNFIS-FDI-2024-0598 and TUIASI own funds; National Research Grants – ARUT
2022–2024 Key person
COFUND-ERAMIN-3-RecMine project, no. 307/2022, Reducing the environmental footprint through environmentally friendly mining waste recycling technologies – RecMine
European Commission, Horizon 2020; Programme Coordinator: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal; Project Director: Vizureanu Petrică
2023–2026 Key person
Black Sea SIERRA, project number 101124670, Harnessing complementary curricular preparedness via sustainable management in response to civil and military pollution on the coastline, tributaries and lagoons in Black Sea’s North, West, South zone
EMFAF-2023-PIA-FLAGSHIP; European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency; Project Director: Vizureanu Petrică
2024–2027 Team member
A new generation of metallic biomaterials as health solution for a sustainable life – Cool&SMartTit Project
ERA-MIN Joint Transnational Call 2023; European Commission, Horizon 2020; Programme Coordinator: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal; Project Director: Vizureanu Petrică
2022–2023 Target group member
Network of Excellence in Applied Research and Innovation for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Programmes / InoHubDoc
European Social Fund, grant agreement no. POCU/993/6/13/153437
2021 Team member
Internal grant GI/P6/2021 – Project to support publishing capacity: publications
Competition organized within TUIASI; Director: Petrică Vizureanu
2021 Team member
Internal grant GI/P20/2021 – Project to support publishing capacity: publications
Competition organized by TUIASI; Director: Andrei Sandu
2021 Team member
Internal grant GI/P38/2021 – Project to support editorial capacity: publications
Competition organized within TUIASI; Director: Madalina Simona Baltatu
2021 Team member
ROSE Secondary Education Project – Successful integration to university studies at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi / Success_key
Grant contract no. 196/SGU/NC/II
2019–2020 Team member
TUIASI-COMPETE
Ministry of Research and Innovation, PNCDI III, Programme 1, Subprogramme 1.2 – Institutional Performance
2018–2020 Team member
Secondary Education Project (ROSE), University Grants Scheme – Education Centre (SGU-CI), project code Secondary Education: ROSE no. 83/SGU/CI/I, REMEDIUM
Reducing school dropout of first year students through remedial and counselling activities within the TUIASI Education Centre; mentoring and tutoring support activities

📘 Selected Publications

  1. XRD and TG-DTA Study of New Alkali Activated Materials Based on Fly Ash with Sand and Glass Powder — Materials, 2020 DOI
  2. Concrete Compressive Strength by Means of Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity and Moduli of Elasticity — Materials, 2021 DOI
  3. Recent Advances in Geopolymer-Based Materials and Sustainable Construction Solutions — Selected publication