National Institute of Materials Physics

The Institute of Physics of the Romanian Academy was established in 1949. Its founding father, Horia Hulubei (PhD in Paris under Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie) is a world-famous scientist for his outstanding results in various areas of physics, including RAMAN, X rays, Compton, atomic and nuclear physics. In 1956, the Institute of Physics, of the Romanian Academy, split according to a political decision into an Institute of Atomic Physics (IFA), located at Magurele, and the Bucharest Institute of Physics (IFB), based initially at the Faculty of Physics in the old edifice of the Bucharest University, and later in a building at 114 Calea Victoriei Street. The Institute moved again in 1974, at its present location in Magurele, Atomistilor 405A. The Institute of Physics and Technology of Materials came into being in 1977 by the union of some laboratories belonging to the Bucharest Institute of Physics and the Institute of Atomic Physics (IFA-Bucharest). The actual name (National Institute of Materials Physics-NIMP) was given in 1996 after a national accreditation procedure (re-accreditation in 2008 and 2016).  Over 35 million euros were invested in a new laboratory building, equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, and in rehabilitation of the Otetelesanu mansion, the headquarters of the first Institute of Physics of the Romanian Academy. NIMP is among the founders of the Central European Research Infrastructure (C-ERIC, https://www.ceric-eric.eu/),,) it is an associated member of the French Speaking Universities (AUF, https://www.auf.org/),,) and has under its umbrella a category 2 UNESCO center (“CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE FORMATION ET DE RECHERCHE AVANCÉES EN PHYSIQUE”, http://cifra.infim.ro/). INCDFM is devoted to fundamental and applied research within solid-state physics and materials research and is highly regarded for its international projects (R&D projects and networks with support for EU, and bilateral agreements). In particular, INCDFM has conducted two projects for development of the research infrastructure CEUREMVASU/2009, RITECC/2014.