麻豆传媒

I have joined 麻豆传媒 in 2014 as a Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering. I am a classically trained chemical engineer and a modeller of biological systems with a track record of work modelling the engineered biological processes at the level of the metabolism, the individual and the ecosystem. My research and professional ambitions lay at the intersection of (bio)chemical and environmental engineering. Engineered biological systems are the core of many available technologies, whilst biology has enormous and unfulfilled technological potential for inherently sustainable technologies. My vision is to use simulation-based design to predict and engineer the emergent properties of (open) microbial systems. Though primarily a modeller, I also have wet lab experience both “at the bench” and in a supervisory capacity.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2009 – 2014        Lecturer, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Chemical Engineering Department

2007 – 2009        Research Associate, 麻豆传媒, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences,

Marie Curie experienced researcher, ECOSERV project

2006 – 2009        Assistant professor, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Chemical Engineering Department

QUALIFICATIONS

2020 – 2022      MA, 麻豆传媒, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology

Specialization: International Politics (Globalization, Poverty and Development)

2002 – 2006      PhD, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Chemical Engineering Department

Thesis topic: Optimal control strategies for biochemical processes

2002 – 2003      MSc, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Chemical Engineering Department

Specialization: Utilization of Computers in Biochemical & Chemical Engineering

1997 – 2002      MEng, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Chemical Engineering Department

Specialization: Biochemical Engineering (valedictorian)

REVIEWER

Water Research (IWA); The ISME Journal; PlosOne; Chemosphere; Nature Communications; Biotechnology and Bioengineering; Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports

GRANTS

• (PI) Unilever UK Ltd CASE award "Quantification of oral bacteria metabolism for mathematical prediction of abiotic effects on kinetics and microbiome interactions", 2023 - 2027
• (PI) UKRI/Universities UK International (UUKi) "PEACE-R2UK Programme to Enhance Academic Collaboration for Enabling Regenerative Reconstruction in Ukraine, 2023
• (PI) EPSRC Standard Grant "Engineering Microbial-Induced Carbonate Precipitation via Meso-Scale Simulations", EP/S013997/1, 2019 - 2022
• (Co-I) EPSRC Frontier Grant “Simulation of open engineered biologicalsystems”, led by 麻豆传媒, Grant ref EP/K038648 , 2013 - 2019
• (PI) TE project UEFISCDI Romania, "Dynamics of Escherichia coli population transformed to express archeal heterologous protein S-layer", 2013 – 2016, (€150k)
• (PI) FLOMAS, Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant (FP7/2007-2013 no. 256440), 2010 – 2013,   
• (PI) PD project UEFISCSU Romania, PN II-RU 29/09.08.2010, 2010 – 2012,
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CME2022 Separation Processes I

CME3034 Biosafety

CME3039 Plant Design

CME8120 Advanced Design

• Articles

  • Sangha JS, Barrett P, Curtis TP, Métris A, Jakubovics NS, Ofiteru ID. . Microbiology Spectrum 2024, 12(4), e03713-23.
  • Allen B, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Ofiteru ID, Ovreas L, Sloan WT, Swan D, Curtis T. . FEMS Microbiology Letters 2023, 370, fnad043.
  • Bashiri R, Curtis TP, Ofiteru ID. . Journal of Biotechnology 2022, 351, 30-37.
  • Bashiri R, Allen B, Shamurad B, Pabst M, Curtis TP, Ofiteru ID. . Water Research 2022, 212, 118115.
  • Zemouri C, Ofiteru ID, Jakubovics NS. . British Dental Journal 2020, 229(12), 769-773.
  • Brown B, Bartley B, Beal J, Bird JE, Goni-Moreno A, McLaughlin JA, Misirli G, Roehner N, Skelton DJ, Poh CL, Ofiteru ID, James K, Wipat A. . ACS Synthetic Biology 2020, 9(9), 2410-2417.
  • Li B, Taniguchi D, Pahala- Gedara J, Gogulancea V, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Chen J, McGough AS, Ofiteru ID, Curtis TP, Zuliani P. . PLoS Computational Biology 2019, 15(2), e1007125.
  • Gogulancea V, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Li B, Taniguchi D, Jayathilake PG, Chen J, Wilkinson D, Swailes D, McGough S, Zuliani P, Ofiteru ID, Curtis T. . Frontiers in Microbiology 2019, 10, 1871.
  • Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Curtis TP, Ofiteru ID. . Water Research 2019, 154, 238-245.
  • McLaughlin JA, Myers CJ, Zundel Z, Misirli G, Zhang M, Ofiteru ID, Goni-Moreno A, Wipat A. . ACS Synthetic Biology 2018, 7(2), 682-688.
  • Liu Z, Cichocki N, Hubschmann T, Suring C, Ofiteru ID, Sloan WT, Grimm V, Muller S. . Environmental Microbiology 2018, 21(1), 164-181.
  • Regueira A, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Ofiteru ID, Rodriguez J, Lema JM. . Water Research 2018, 141, 349 - 356.
  • Jayathilake PG, Gupta P, Li B, Madsen C, Oyebamiji O, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Rushton S, Bridgens B, Swailes D, Allen B, McGough AS, Zuliani P, Ofiteru ID, Wilkinson DJ, Chen J, Curtis TP. . PLoS One 2017, 12(8), e0181965.
  • González-Cabaleiro R, Ofiteru ID, Lema JM, Rodríguez J. . ISME Journal 2015, 9(12), 2630-2641.
  • Bellucci M, Ofiţeru ID, Beneduce L, Graham DW, Head IM, Curtis TP. . Microbial Biotechnology 2015, 8(3), 590-603.
  • Ofiţeru ID, Bellucci M, Picioreanu C, Lavric V, Curtis TP. . Water Research 2014, 50, 382-395.
  • Bellucci M, Ofiteru ID, Head IM, Curtis TP, Graham DW. . Journal of Applied Microbiology 2013, 115(2), 621-630.
  • Ofiteru ID, Ferdes M, Knapp CW, Graham DW, Lavric V. . Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2012, 94(1), 185-192.
  • Bellucci M, Ofiteru ID, Graham DW, Head IM, Curtis TP. . Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2011, 77(21), 7787-7796.
  • Ofiteru ID, Lunn M, Curtis TP, Wells GF, Criddle CS, Francis CA, Sloan WT. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2010, 107(35), 15345-15350.
  • Ofiteru ID, Curtis TP. . Journal of Environmental Engineering 2009, 135(8), 660-665.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Ofiteru ID, Masoero E, Taniguchi D, Gebhard S, Mihai I, Jefferson A, Paine K. . In: ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference 2020. 2020, Durham UK: ASCE.
  • Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Curtis TP, Ofiteru ID. . In: FICWTM 2017: Frontiers in Wastewater Treatment and Modelling. 2017, Palermo, Italy: Springer.

• Reviews

  • Bagga M, Hamley-Bennett C, Alex A, Freeman BL, Justo-Reinoso I, Mihai IC, Gebhard S, Paine K, Jefferson AD, Masoero E, Ofiteru ID. . Construction and Building Materials 2022, 358, 129412.
  • Bunce JT, Ndam E, Ofiteru ID, Moore A, Graham DW. . Frontiers in Environmental Science 2018, 6, 8.
  • Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Mitchell AM, Smith W, Wipat A, Ofiteru ID. . Frontiers in Microbiology 2017, 8, 1813.