He received his Ph.D in Natural Sciences, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Julius Maximilians University, Wurzburg, Germany. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Centre of Nanostructured Materials and Bionanointerfaces, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research in Bio-Nano-Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His current research focuses on the obtaining and characterization of nanoarchitectures with controllable morphology and structure for environmental and biomedical applications.