{"id":1480,"date":"2026-10-16T10:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/?page_id=1480"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:18:09","slug":"barjoveanu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/about\/project-partners\/co-tuiasi\/barjoveanu\/","title":{"rendered":"Assoc.prof.dr.eng. George Barjoveanu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 id=\"top\" class=\"wp-block-heading cersus-profile__section-title\"><strong>Key Person and WP6 Leader<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"#bio\">Background<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"#profile\">Research profile<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"#cooperation\">Research &amp; collaboration<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"#role\">Role in CERSUS<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__overview has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns cersus-profile__overview-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:68%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading cersus-profile__section-title\">Research profile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns cersus-profile__stats is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">37<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISI journal articles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">17<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H-index (Scopus)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1,100+<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scopus citations, excluding self-citations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">patents<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:32%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__portrait-placeholder has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GeorgeBarjoveanu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GeorgeBarjoveanu.jpg 582w, https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GeorgeBarjoveanu-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle has-small-font-size is-style-text-subtitle--1 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Europass-CV-RO-George-Barjoveanu-sept_2026.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CV (English)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=26538526400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scopus<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webofscience.com\/wos\/author\/record\/AAA-2043-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web of Science<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/George-Barjoveanu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ResearchGate<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2814-2970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ORCID: 0000-0002-2814-2970<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"bio\" class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__section cersus-profile__intro has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George B\u00e2rjoveanu is an Associate Professor at \u201cGheorghe Asachi\u201d Technical University of Ia\u0219i (TUIASI), a key member of the coordinating CERSUS team and leader of <strong>WP6 \u2014 Sustainability Assessment<\/strong>. His research focuses on life cycle assessment, environmental performance evaluation and environmental management, connecting the development of technologies and materials with evidence on their sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His expertise combines environmental assessment with water and wastewater treatment, process modelling and resource management. Within CERSUS, he coordinates the integration of life cycle thinking, eco-design and sustainability assessment across the consortium\u2019s research on innovative materials, advanced treatment processes and by-product and waste valorisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 id=\"profile\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research and academic background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He graduated from TUIASI in 2004 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, specialising in Technologies and Biotechnologies for Environmental Protection. He completed a master\u2019s degree in Environmental Management in 2005 and obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His doctoral research investigated advanced wastewater treatment by ultrafiltration for industrial water recirculation. During 2010\u20132013, he undertook postdoctoral research at TUIASI within the PERFORM-ERA programme, developing his research in environmental management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His subsequent work has focused on using life cycle assessment to evaluate and predict the environmental performance of complex systems, technologies, products and innovative materials. This approach connects experimental findings with comparative assessment, process improvement and informed environmental decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His principal research areas include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Life cycle assessment:<\/strong> evaluation of environmental impacts across the life cycles of products, services, materials and technologies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Sustainability assessment and eco-design:<\/strong> integration of environmental evidence into the development and improvement of processes and resource valorisation pathways.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Environmental management:<\/strong> application of assessment tools and performance indicators to support sustainable production and consumption.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Water and wastewater treatment:<\/strong> conventional and advanced processes, membrane technologies and industrial water reuse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Environmental process modelling:<\/strong> analysis, simulation and optimisation of environmental systems, supported by statistical analysis and laboratory data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list cersus-profile__focus\">\n<li>Life cycle assessment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainability assessment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eco-design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Water reuse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Process modelling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 id=\"cooperation\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leading research and collaboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His professional experience at TUIASI combines teaching, research, project management and collaboration with external organisations. He held engineering appointments supporting environmental education and research, undertook doctoral and postdoctoral research, and subsequently progressed through Lecturer and Associate Professor positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Within <strong>SUSTENVPRO<\/strong>, he coordinated the component project dedicated to assessing the sustainability of water treatment and waste valorisation processes through life cycle assessment. He also served as TUIASI partner coordinator for the <strong>Chicken Waste<\/strong> project on integrated chicken manure management and directed an industrial research contract addressing wastewater treatment plant efficiency for DELPHI DIESEL SYSTEMS ROM\u00c2NIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His recent international activities include sustainability training within <strong>TEACH4SD<\/strong>, expertise in technology transfer, innovation and sustainability assessment within <strong>Digital Innovation Zone<\/strong>, and contributions to <strong>WARM<\/strong>, an Erasmus+ project supporting waste reduction, waste management and circular economy in Western Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2013, he has contributed to TUIASI\u2019s Laboratory for Analysis and Control of Environmental Factors (LACMED), with responsibilities in laboratory analysis, quality assurance of results, statistical analysis and reporting. His research and consultancy experience connects environmental assessment with practical needs in industry and environmental services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His scientific contributions include journal articles, two monographs, three book chapters and two patents. He also reviews research for journals including the Journal of Cleaner Production, The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Production and Consumption, and contributes to the organisation of the International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Management (ICEEM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 id=\"training\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Training the next generation of researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His teaching connects environmental engineering principles with the tools needed to assess and improve environmental performance. His teaching portfolio includes environmental process modelling and simulation, life cycle assessment and sustainable consumption at bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As coordinator of the Environmental Management master\u2019s programme and an initiator of the Eco-design and Sustainable Technologies bachelor\u2019s programme, he contributes to the development of education linking technical knowledge with sustainability and environmental decision-making. He supervises master\u2019s dissertations and participates in doctoral guidance committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Within CERSUS, he supports training in eco-design, life cycle assessment and life cycle management, helping young researchers connect experimental data with environmental evaluation. This work encourages life cycle thinking across disciplines and supports the consistent collection and interpretation of data throughout the consortium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group cersus-profile__section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 id=\"role\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Role in CERSUS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As <strong>WP6 leader and a key member of the coordinating TUIASI team<\/strong>, George B\u00e2rjoveanu coordinates the sustainability assessment of innovative materials, advanced environmental processes and by-product and waste valorisation pathways developed within CERSUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">WP6 uses life cycle thinking as a common framework linking the project\u2019s research activities. Its initial work integrates <strong>eco-design, prospective life cycle assessment and life cycle costing<\/strong> to compare development options, identify potential environmental and economic trade-offs, and support decisions on materials, energy use, process integration and end-of-life management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As experimental results become available, the assessment draws on data generated in WP2, WP3 and WP5 to evaluate materials, treatment technologies and resource valorisation routes. This work combines life cycle inventories, process modelling and scale-up scenarios with techno-economic and multicriteria assessment to support the comparison and improvement of proposed solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In cooperation with WP4, WP6 also connects toxicity evidence with risk assessment and the development or updating of life cycle impact assessment characterisation factors. Through coordination of data collection, assessment methods and researcher training, he helps the consortium translate laboratory findings into evidence supporting sustainable technology development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/about\/pmt\/\">Management team<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/about\/project-partners\/co-tuiasi\/tuiasi-research-team\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"834\">CO (TUIASI) Team<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Person and WP6 Leader Background Research profile Research &amp; collaboration Role in CERSUS Research profile 37 ISI journal articles 17 H-index (Scopus) 1,100+ Scopus citations, excluding self-citations 2 patents CV (English)ScopusWeb of ScienceResearchGateORCID: 0000-0002-2814-2970 George B\u00e2rjoveanu is an Associate Professor at \u201cGheorghe Asachi\u201d Technical University of Ia\u0219i (TUIASI), a key member of the coordinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":448,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1480\/revisions\/1509"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cersus.tuiasi.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}