CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal information

Sonia was born on 7 September 1966 in Bucharest and died on 20 May 2002 in London.
She remained a Romanian citizen, but she was a permanent resident in the United Kingdom.
She was fluent in Romanian, English, Italian, French and German.

Academic Qualifications

• Diploma (Physics, 1990), University of Bucharest
  Thesis: Quantum Hall effect
  Supervisor: Petre Diţa
• PhD (Physics, 1994), University of Bonn
  Thesis: Supersymmetric integrable hierarchies and string theory
  Supervisor: Vladimir Rittenberg
• Junior Member of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge

Research Experience

• November 1990 - September 1994
  Scientific assistant, University of Bonn
• October 1993 - September 1994
  Visiting scientist, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
• October 1994 - September 1996
  Postdoc, ICTP, Trieste
• October 1996 - September 1999
  PPARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College, London
• October 1999 - September 2001
  Postdoc, Spinoza Institute, Utrecht University
• July - August 2000
  Scientific associate, CERN, Geneva
• October - December 2000
  CNRS associate researcher, Poincaré Institute, Paris
• October 2001 - May 2002
  Postdoc, Imperial College, London
• In February 2002 Sonia was awarded a PPARC Advanced Research Fellowship tenable at Imperial College, London, from October 2002 until September 2007.

Teaching Experience

• 1996-1997
  T-duality and mirror symmetry
  MSc Special Topics Lectures
• 1997-1998
  Introduction to D-branes
  MSc Special Topics Lectures

Tutorial Experience

• 1991-1992
  Statistical Mechanics
  Quantum Mechanics II
• 1992-1993
  Quantum Mechanics I
  Quantum Mechanics II

Conferences, Workshops and Schools

• Geometry of constrained dynamical systems
  Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (June 1994)
• Spring school in high energy physics
  ICTP, Trieste (March - April 1995)
• Summer school in high energy physics
  ICTP, Trieste (June 1995)
• Strings, gravity and related topics
  ICTP, Trieste (June 1995)
• Gauge theories, applied supersymmetry and quantum gravity
  Leuven (July 1995)
• Superstrings and the physics of fundamental interactions
  London (October 1995)
  Nonreductive WZW models
• Spring school in high energy physics
  ICTP, Trieste (March 1996)
• Summer school in high energy physics
  ICTP, Trieste (June - July 1996)
• Nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory
  Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (April - May 1997)
• Strings 97
  Amsterdam (June 1997)
• 18th UK summer institute in theoretical high energy physics
  St Andrews (August - September 1997)
• Strings 98
  Santa Barbara (June 1998)
• 19th UK summer institute in theoretical high energy physics
  Oxford (September 1998)
  D-branes in curved backgrounds: the boundary state approach
• Advanced school on supersymmetry in the theories of fields, strings and branes
  Santiago de Compostela (July 1999)
• Conformal field theory of D-branes
  DESY, Hamburg (September 1998)
  D-branes in curved spacetime: the Nappi-Witten background
• Strings 99
  Potsdam (July 1999)
• The geometry and physics of monopoles
  ICMS, Edinburgh (August 1999)
• Quaternionic structures in mathematics and physics
  Rome (September 1999)
• Quantum aspects of gauge theories, supersymmetry and unification
  Paris (September 1999)
• National seminar in theoretical high energy physics
  NIKHEF, Amsterdam (Fall 1999)
  D-branes in group manifolds
• Noncommutative gauge theory
  University of Leiden (November 1999)
• UK meeting on 2d integrable systems and conformal field theory
  ICMS, Edinburgh (March 2000)
  D-branes in WZW models
• Duality, Strings and M-Theory
  Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna (April 2000)
  D-branes in group manifolds
• Semestre Cordes
  Poincaré Institute, Paris (October - November 2000)
• Strings 2001
  Tata Institute, Mumbai (January 2001)
• Modern trends in string theory
  Lisbon (July 2001)
  Boundaries, B-fields and D-branes
• The quantum structure of spacetime and the geometric nature of fundamental interactions
  Corfu (September 2001)
  A geometric approach to D-branes in group manifolds
• Mathematical aspects of string theory
  Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna (October - November 2001)
  D-branes in Lie groups
• North British mathematical physics seminar
  ICMS, Edinburgh (March 2002)