Name: Marius IOSIFESCU

Address: Centre for Mathematical Statistics, Casa Academiei Romane, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, RO-76100, Bucharest 5, Romania

Date and Place of Birth: August 12, 1936, Pitesti, Romania

Marital Status: Married, one son

Education:

• June 1954 - Graduated from College;
• July 1959 - M.A. (Mathematics), Bucharest University;
• July 1963 - Ph.D. (Probability), Bucharest University, Thesis: Chains with complete connections with an arbitrary set of states;
• December 1969. Earned a second doctoral degree equivalent to the title of professor.

Brief Chronology of Employment:

• 1959-1962 Consultant, Central Dept. of Statistics;
• 1961-1963 Assistant Professor, Mathematics Dept. Polytechnical Institute, Bucharest;
• 1963-1968 Research worker, Institute of Mathematics and Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1968-1969 Head of underdepartment, Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1969-1976 Head of Dept. of Probability and Statistics, Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• 1976-1989 Head of Centre for Mathematical Statistics;
• April 1990-present Director of Centre for Mathematical Statictics (Romanian Academy).

Distinctions:

• 1965 and 1972- Awarded prizes of the Romanian Academy for contributions to the theory of dependence with complete connections and theory of random processes when modelling biological and medical phenomena;
• 1970- Elected a member of the International Statistical Institute;
• 1971- Elected an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, England;
• 1975- Awarded the bronze medal of the Helsinki University;
• 1991- Elected a Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy;
• 1993- Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Acadé miques.

Visiting Professorships:

• 1974, 1991, 1996 and 1998, Université René Descartes (Paris V);
• 1977/78, Mainz Universität;
• 1979/80, Frankfurt am Main Universität;
• 1981/82, Bonn Universität;
• 1991, Melbourne University;
• 1997, Université de Lille 1;
• 1998 and 1999, Université de Bordeaux 1.

A member of: Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (since 1969-on the council 1975-1979), the Biometric Society (since 1968-on the council 1976-1979).

Editorial Visiting:

• Probability Theory and Related Fields (1972-1989),
• Biostatistica (1989-1998),
• Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (1989-1993),
• Journal of Multivariate Analysis (1976-1992);
• Mathematica (Cluj) (since 1992);
• deputy editor of Revue Roumaine de Mathé matiques Pures et Appliqué es (since 1983);
• co-editor of the Proceedings of the Brasov Conference on Probability Theory (1971, 1974, 1977, 1982) and of the volume Studies in Probabilitty and Related Topics:Studies in Honour of Octav Onicescu on His 90th Birthday (1983).

Ph.D.Supervising: 28 Ph.D.theses have been defended under my supervision since 1976.

Invited speaker at international scientific meetings in: Budapest (1972), Vilnius (1973, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1989), Varna (Bulgaria) (1979 and 1993), Prague (1978,1986), Warsaw (1981, 1990), Bad Honnef (Germany) (1982), Salonika (1987), Olsztyn (Poland) (1988), Palermo (1988), Uppsala (1990), Blaubeuren (Germany) (1991), Amsterdam (1993), Paris (1994), Compiègne (1998) and many others which I was unable to attend.

Short visits (2 up 3 weeks) abroad under the exchange agreements of the Romanian Academy: former URSS (1964, 1970), former Chechoslovakia (1965, 1967), Poland (1966, 1975, 1976, 1983, 1990), Hungary (1972), France (1979), Austria (1983, 1986), Great Britain (1969, 1984), West Germany (1985), Sweden (1987, 1992, 1995).

Lectures delivered at the universities of: Moscow (1964), Warsaw (1966, 1976, 1990), Vilnius (1970), Vienna (1971), Oxford (1972, 1984), Sheffield (1972), Swansea (1972), Paris (V and VI)(1972, 1991, 1992, 1996), Paris (Orsay) (1991), London (1972, 1984), Cambridge (1972,1984), Braunschweig (1978), Duisburg (1978), Paris (Institut de Statistique) (1979, 1980, 1982), Heidelberg (1978, 1985), Frankfurt am Main (1978, 1981, 1985), Bonn (1978, 1985), Dü sseldorf (1980), Mü nchen (1980), Mainz (1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1991), Eichstä tt (1982), Salonika (1984, 1990), Manchester (1984), Trondheim (1987), Stockholm (1987, 1992, 1995), Gö teborg (1987, 1992, 1995), Uppsala (1987, 1992, 1995), Linkö ping (1987, 1992), Florence (1988), Pisa (1988), Melbourne (1991), Sydney (1991), Canberra (1991), Clermont-Ferrand (1992), Nancy (1992), Lille (1993, 1996), Le Mans (1993), Delft (1994, 1995, 1998), Bordeaux (1996).