1. CURRICULUM VITAE
LAURENTIU-IOAN CARAMETE
Institute for Space Sciences,
RO-077125, Bucharest-Magurele, ROMANIA
P.O.Box: MG-23
Tel: 0040 021 4574077
Fax: 0040 021 4574471
E-mail: lcaramete@spacescience.ro
I. PERSONAL DATA
- FAMILY NAME: Caramete
- FIRST NAME: Laurentiu Ioan
- CITIZENSHIP: Romanian
- CURRENT AFFILIATION: Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest
- CURRENT INSTITUTION ADDRESS:
RO-077125, Bucharest-Magurele, ROMANIA
Str. Atomiș tilor, no. 409
Tel.: 0040 021 457 4077
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Petrosani, ROMANIA
- DATE OF BIRTH: July 18, 1979
- MARITAL STATUS: married
II. ACADEMIC DEGREES
- 2016, PhD in Astronomy, University of Bonn, Germany, thesis: “Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR)
– From massive black holes to cosmic rays”
- 2005, MSc in Physics (Atoms, Molecules and Astrophysics Dept.), Faculty of Physics, University of
Bucharest, thesis: “Magnetic field topology in galactic winds”
- 2002, Diploma in Mathematics - Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Petrosani, thesis:
“Quantum relativistic theories of gravity”
III. UNIVERSITY STAGES
2006 – 2008: PhD student at The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Radio and
Infrared Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
2006 – 2008: PhD Student at Max-Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, GERMANY
2003 – 2005: Master Student, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Dept. of Atoms, Molecules and
Astrophysics
1998 – 2002: Undergraduate Student, University of Petrosani, Faculty of Science
IV. COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2002 – 2003
Mathematician at S.C. TopoPet S.A., Petrosani, ROMANIA.

2. Tasks: condition surveying data, realization of maps and surface representations, making of topography
programs, field work for data acquiring.
2004 - Present
Scientific researcher at Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest, ROMANIA.
Tasks: Astrophysical studies: black holes; cosmic ray sources, propagation and interaction; large scale
structure of the Universe. Physics studies: quantum black holes; GUT magnetic monopoles. Computer
science: visual representation of large scale n-body simulations, Documentation and dissemination of the
scientific results.
2004 – 2005
Collaboration with Max-Planck Institute fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, University of Bonn.
Task: working in the framework of Virtual Observatory program VIHKOS, for the topic: “The magnetic field
topology in galactic winds”.
2005 – 2008
Scientist in Max-Planck Institute fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany.
Task: Cosmic ray studies of sources, the interaction with background and deflection in magnetic fields and
also statistical association of events with sources.
V. PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS
1. Dutan, I.; Caramete L.I., “Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from low-luminosity active galactic
nuclei”, Astroparticle Physics, Volume 62, p. 206-216 (2015)
2. Biermann, Peter L.; Nath, Biman B.; Caramete, L. I.; Harms, Benjamin C.; Stanev, Todor;
Becker Tjus, Julia, “Cosmic backgrounds due to the formation of the first generation of supermassive
black holes”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 441, Issue 2, p.1147-1156
(2014)
3. Adrián-Martínez, S. et al. including Caramete L.I. (ANTARES coll.), “Searches for clustering
in the time integrated skymap of the ANTARES neutrino telescope”, Journal of Cosmology and
Astroparticle Physics, Issue 05, article id. 001, pp. (2014)
4. Arsene, N.; Calmet, X.; Caramete, L. I.; Micu, O., “Back-to-back black holes decay signature
at neutrino observatories”, Astroparticle Physics, Volume 54, p. 132-138 (2014)
5. Calmet, X.; Caramete, L. I.; Micu, O., “Quantum black holes from cosmic rays”, Journal of
High Energy Physics, Volume 2012, article id.104 (2012)
6. Biermann, Peter L.; Becker, Julia K.; Caramete, L. I.; Fraschetti, F.; Kneiske, T.; Meli, A.;
Stanev, T., “Photon and neutrino emission from active galactic nuclei”, Nuclear Physics B
Proceedings Supplements, Volume 217, Issue 1, p. 284-286. (2011)
7. Gergely, L. Á., Biermann, P. L., Caramete, L. I., “Supermassive black hole spin-flip during
the inspiral”, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 27, Issue 19 (2010)
8. Caramete, L. I., Biermann, P. L., “The mass function of nearby black hole candidates”,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 521, id.A55 (2010)
9. Biermann, P. L.; Becker, J. K.; Caramete, L.; Gergely, L.; Mariş, I. C.; Meli, A.; de Souza, V.;
Stanev, T., Active Galactic Nuclei: Sources for ultra high energy cosmic rays, International Journal of
Modern Physics D, Volume 18, Issue 10, pp. 1577-1581 (2009)
10. Biermann, Peter L.; Becker, Julia K.; Laurenţiu – Ioan Caramete; et al, Active Galactic Nuclei:
Sources for ultra high energy cosmic rays?, Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume
190, p. 61-78 (2009)

3. VI. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AND CONFERENCES:
2015 – “The 17th International JEM-EUSO collaboration meeting”, June 22-26, 2015, Wako, Japan
2014 – “Jem-EUSO Romanian Meeting”, April, Bucharest, Romania, oral presentation with the title
“Catalog of sources and CR propagation codes for the JEM-EUSO mission”
2014 – “May 21 2014, 99 years of Black Holes – from Astronomy to Quantum Gravity”, Potsdam, Germany,
oral presentation with the title “Quantum Black Holes Signatures in Air, Water and Ice”
2013 – “Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescope”, 03 - 05 April, 2013, Centre de Physique des Particules de
Marseille, France, oral presentation with the title “The search for GUT Magnetic Monopoles and quantum
black holes”
2013 – “KM3Net Collaboration Meeting”, 28 January - 01 February, 2013, Centre de Physique des
Particules de Marseille, France
2012 – “Antares Collaboration Meeting”, “KM3Net Collaboration Meeting”, “MANTS”, 30 September - 08
October,
2012 – The University of Bologna, Italy, oral presentation with the title “GUT Magnetic Monopoles”
2011 – “BLACK HOLES IN A VIOLENT UNIVERSE”, 02 - 04 November, 2011, The University of
Manchester, United Kingdom, oral presentation with the title “Black Holes: Redshift distribution and n-body
simulations”
2011 – “Wandering the Universe – beyond the Sun”, October 08, 2010, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest,
Romania, presentation with the title “N-body simulations and stelar evolution”.
2011 – “Science Week”, International School of Bucharest, oral presentation with the title “Black holes in
the nearby Universe”, Bucharest
2011 – “Yahoo! OpenHack”, Yahoo! Developer Network, oral presentation with the title “Black hole and
galaxies, scientific data access and visualisation tools”, Bucharest
2010 – “DARK MATTER Awerness Week”, December 01-08, 2010, Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest,
Romania, oral presentation with the title “Existence of dark matter”.
2010 – “Foreign and national research and teaching”, September 21-24, 2010, INCAS, Bucharest, Romania,
oral presentation with the title “Research center for atomic physics and astrophysics”.
2010 – “Foreign and national research and teaching”, September 21-24, 2010, INCAS, Bucharest, Romania,
oral presentation with the title “Cosmic rays and black holes at Pierre Auger Observatory”.
2010 – “Wandering the Universe”, October 04, 2010, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest, Romania, oral
presentation with the title “Black holes”.
2010 – “BLACK HOLES IN A VIOLENT UNIVERSE”, 24 - 25 June, 2010, MPIfR, Bonn, Germany, oral
presentation with the title “Black hole candidates in the nearby universe”
2009 – “SCIENCE SHOW - RESEARCHERS NIGHT”, Bucuresti, ROMANIA, interactive oral presentation
with the title “Extragalactic Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: General presentation and sources prediction”

4. 2009 – “ASPERA, Astroparticle physics, the European week”, Bucuresti-Magurele, ROMANIA, oral
presentation with the title “Extragalactic Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays at Pierre Auger Observatory”
2008 – "National Physics Conference" Bucuresti-Magurele, ROMANIA, oral presentation in the high energy
physics and astrophysics section with the title” Extragalactic Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: Source
sample and predicted sky distribution of events”
2008 – “High-Energy Cosmic Rays”, 400. WE-Heraeus-Seminar / 11 – 13 February 2008 at the
Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Germany), Bonn, GERMANY, poster presentation with the title “UHECR:
Models for Galactic magnetic field and statistics of candidate sources”
2007 – “European Radio Interferometry School”, Bonn, GERMANY
2007 – “Dynamos” Physics Summer School, Les Houches, organized by the Observatoire de Grenoble,
Université Joseph Fourier, France, poster presentation with the title “Magnetic field topology in galactic
winds”
2007 – “Astrophysics, Dynamical Systems and Fractals - past and future”, University of Bucharest,
Department of Physics, Magurele, ROMANIA, oral presentation with the title “Magnetic field topology in
galactic winds”
2006 – “Reasearch School Summer Meeting”, Berggasthof Lausegger, Austria organized by IMPRS, Bonn,
GERMANY, oral presentation with the title “Theoretical physical models with Mathematica”
2006 – “Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity”, Berlin
2005 – “Wolfram Mathematica at MPIfR”, Bonn, Germany, oral presentation with the title “Working with
lists, files and streams”
2005 – “TIM-05, Physics Conference”, Timisoara, Romania, poster presentation with the title “Modeling
cosmic galactic winds using numerical methods”
2005 – “Physics and Computer Sciences”, NATO-Advanced Study Institute, Cargese, Corsica, France
2005 – “International School on AstroParticle Physics”, European Doctorate School, Belgirate, Italy
2004 – "National Physics Conference" Pitesti, ROMANIA
2003 – "Student Technical Days" of Univ. Politechnics, Timisoara, ROMANIA
2002 – "General Conference of the European Physical Society EPS-12 Trends in Physics", Budapest,
HUNGARY, poster presentation
VII. STAGES ABROAD
2005 – 2008:
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany - Theory Group
Purpose: PhD research on the subject: Black holes and Cosmic Rays at Pierre Auger Observatory
Supervisor: Prof. P.L. Biermann
Tasks: - Develop accurate physical models in order to identify the sources for ultra-high energy cosmic rays

5. 2004 – 2005:
University of Bonn, Germany
Purpose: Master research in the framework of the Erasmus/Socrates fellowship
VIII. FOREIGN LANGUAGES: English, French
IX. COMPUTER SKILLS
Operating systems: WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX
Programming languages: BASIC, C/C++, Java, Mathematica, C#, Js
Other soft packages: AutoCad, Unity3D
X. OTHERS:
„Programming analyst” diploma, 1997
Initiator of the „Science Group” at the Physics Department of University of Petrosani, Faculty of Science,
1999
„2D Diploma” at the "National AutoCad Contest", Timisoara 2003
Certificate equivalent to two courses of a standard doctorate school from the International School on
AstroParticle Physics, European Doctorate School (ISAPP 2005)
Member of the Association of Amateur Astronomers from the Faculty of Physics University of Bucharest
Member of the Atomic Physics and Astrophysics Research Center, Faculty of Physics University of
Bucharest
Mentor in the “Job Shadow” program organized by the Junior Achievement Romania, 2012