Prof. Dan C. Vodnar
Professor at Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Institut of Life Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Thematic Topic: Blue Economy and Governance
Prof. Dan C. Vodnar (DCV) – Prof. Dr. at the Faculty of Food Science and Technology from the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca and the President of the Senate within the same university. Since 2016, I have had the privilege of leading an extremely passionate research group in our university. In 2024, our group was honoured as the best research group in Romania in the biotechnology domain during the Romania Research Gala. DCV coordinates/coordinated 6 international research projects and 6 national research projects, focusing on studying the metabolic capacity of probiotic strains and developing solutions to identify substitutes for essential sources of micro/macronutrients.
From 2023, he is the coordinator of the HORIZON 2020 project – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) – FEEDACTIV. The total funding attracted is 8.610.082 euro. Since 2019, DCV has been consistently recognized in the annual ranking of the Top 2% of scientists in the field of food science by ELSEVIER BV and Stanford University. In 2022, he was elected a member of the European Academy. In 2022, he received the Romanian Academy award Remarkable Scientometric Indicators: H-index and citations (WOS) – 45 H-index, 5169 citations without self-citations; h-index and citations (Google Scholar) – 55 H-index, 9960 citations; Total publications – 256. DCV appears in the top 1% by citations/Highly Cited Researcher with 7 articles.
He is Editor-in-Chef for Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca. Food Science and Technology (I.F.=0.7). DCV is the author of 5 inventions and 3 patents applications. In 2022, together with his team, DVC launched Echibiotic, a symbiotic product demonstrating our ability to bring breakthrough innovations to market.