Florin joined the group in February 2024 working on developing and validating computer models for CO2 absorption by concrete as a function of its composition and microstructural characteristics. He obtained a BS in Solid State Physics and his PhD in Physics from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest – Romania, in 1992 and 2003, respectively. Starting to work in 1992 in experimental physics at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Bucharest, he accumulated practical experience in crystal growth, thin film deposition and the temperature programmed desorption (TPD) technique. In 2001 he started to work on MD and kMC modelling. From then until now he developed models for molecular beam epitaxy on Cu(001), Cu(110) and Si(001) vicinal surfaces, island electromigration on Si(001), free and supported metallic nanoclusters structure, metallic nanoclusters diffusion onto MgO(001), stability of vacancy-interstitial clusters in the bulk and their segregation at the grain boundaries in aluminum alloys, laser focused atom deposition, surface laser ablation, magnetron sputtering deposition and CO2 adsorption on NixMg1-xO solid solutions.