Danut Dragoi, PhD, Medical 3D Printing Business Development Team

Specialty: Materials Science and Engineering, Physics

e-Mail: Danut.daa@gmail.com

Phone: 818-813-2531

Affiliation: nComposites

2019 – INACTIVE

Roles at Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence

Business Developer for RegenHU in the Tissue Engineering Industry in the US West Coast
Business Developer for planned Global Distributorship of 3D Printing and related BioMedical Technologies, DBA, LM-3DP-GD based in the US for the US West Coast
Expert, Author, Writer in the following Research Categories

Academic Publishing
Amino acids
Bias measurement tools
Discovery process
Experimental validation
Mechanical Assist Devices: LVAD
Methods
Organ-on-a-Chip & 3D Printing in Life Sciences
Patents
CT
Scientist: Career considerations
Sensors & Analytics
Materials Science and Engineering

Articles in forthcoming e-Book

Series E: e-Books on Patient-centered Medicine

VOLUME FOUR

Medical 3D BioPrinting – The Revolution in Medicine

Technologies for Patient-centered Medicine: From R&D in Biologics to New Medical Devices

https://pharmaceuticalintelligence.com/biomed-e-books/series-e-titles-in-the-strategic-plan-for-2014-1015/volume-four-medical-3d-bioprinting-the-revolution-in-medicine/

Chapter 1: 3D Bioprinting: Latest Innovations in a Forty year-old Technology

1.11 4D Printing as a Time Dependent 3D Printing

Chapter 4: Medical and Surgical Repairs

4.7 Medical 3D Printing and Metals in use in Medical Devices

4.9 How 3D Printing Can Save a Life

Chapter 6: FDA Regulatory Technology Issues

6.8 GE’s $40 Million Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA)

Chapter 9: Advances and Future Prospects

9.5 Sound of Music and Fancy Lights with 3D Printing

Chapter 10: BioInks and MEMS

10.5 Nano metal inks

Chapter 11: BioMedical MEMS

11.1 BioMEMS based Optical Sensors

11.6 Applications in Medicine of Piezoelectric Mini Cantilever Beam

Danut Dragoi, PhD

Medical 3D Printing Business Development Team

BIO

Research Scientist with education and experience in Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Solid State Physics (PhD from University of Denver, Postodocs at Caltech and JPL) and twenty years of experience on Analytical Chemistry, chemistry research, materials synthesis, organic concentrator, raw material composition and characterization, sensors (x-ray, laser, beta, gamma, XRF, IR, and magnetic). Experienced with product development, materials analysis, large processing units for composite materials, and instrumentation. Professional on testing, pilots, analysis, and design of experiment for product improvements. I have expertise on determining major elements as well as traces in raw materials and bio-engineered materials. As an experimental physicist-chemist and materials scientist by training I developed, designed, and tested SOP’s under regulated QA and GMP, and method development and validation. Experienced with chemical synthesis, analysis and instrumentation. Proficient with computing simulations, 3D holographic displays, programming and in addition I have the ability to foster a favorable environment for creativity and innovation in diverse working environment.

Danut Dragoi, PhD

Danut.DAA@gmail.com

818-813-2531

Education

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Denver

MSc, Solid State Physics, University of Bucharest

BSc, Physics, University of Bucharest

Professional Skills

Non-contact sensors (photons and electrons)
Polymeric sensors
Stress sensors
Magnetic sensors
Magnetic nanoparticles
Analytical Chemistry
Functionalization of nanoparticles
Material purification through crystallization
Quantitative phase analysis
Materials processing
Process engineering
Sample prep
Lab experience
Professional work on polymer research and applications
Professional with XRD/XRF analysis
Rietveld
Experienced with polymer coating process development
TA, TG, DSC, moisture sorption on powder materials
Structural aminoacids characterization
Experience with thermal analysis of polymeric materials
Experienced on fillers in polymeric materials
Experienced on preparing standards for materials characterization
Materials analysis under GMP
Experienced with ICPMS
Speciation with LC-ICPMS
SOP’s improvement and validation
Experienced on polymer sheets thickness measurements
Algorithms development
FEA with ANSYS
Optical engineering
Electro-optic effect
Nanocomposites
3D layer-by-layer composite laminates processing
MicroCT imaging
3D holographic displays
Development of advance laboratory analysis for raw materials and processed materials such as quantitative powder analysis, SEM, TEM, and x-ray imaging.
Advanced mathematical modeling
Advanced methods for nonlinear systems of equations

Professional Work Experience

Sr. Scientist, nComposites, Fontana CA, 7/2007 – Present

Sr. Scientist, Signature Science, TSL, DHS, S&T, Atlantic City Int’l Airport NJ, 2/2014-5/2014

Sr. Chemist, Exova Inc, Santa Fe Springs, CA, 6/2011-04/2011

Sr. Research Scientist, NDC Infrared Engineering, Irwindale CA, 3/2008 – 3/2011

Sr. R&D Scientist, Science & Technology Corporation/Customized Therapeutics, Altadena CA, 1/2007 – 7/2007

Development Scientist, James Hardie Research USA, Fontana CA, 3/2004 – 12/2006

Postdoctoral Fellow/Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/CalTech, Pasadena, 06/1999 – 03/2004

Visitor scientist, University of Denver, Denver CO, 07/1990-06/1999

Computer Assistant, CASL University of Denver, Denver CO, 03/1994-06/1999

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Denver, Denver CO, 04/1994-06/1996

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Denver, Denver CO, 06/1996-06/1999

Principal Physicist, Institute of Semiconductors, Bucharest RO, 1/1980-7/1990

Physicist, Ferrites, Urziceni RO, 8/1977-1/1980

Selected Publications

Academic and Industrial results were published in over 69 scientific papers, the complete list is available upon request:

Danut Dragoi, Steven McClure, Allan Johnston, “Imaging of Gamma Irradiated Regions of a Crystal”, NASA Tech Briefs, NPO-30622, 2004.
Itzhak Halevy, Danut Dragoi, Ersan Üstündag, Alan F. Yue, Elizabeth H. Arredondo, Jingzhu Hu, Maddury S. Somayazulu, “The effect of pressure on the structure of NiAl2O4”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Volume 14, Issue 44, pp. 10511-10516 (2002)
D. Dragoi, E. Üstündag, B. Clausen and M. A. M. Bourke, “Investigation of Thermal Residual Stresses in Tungsten-Fiber/Bulk Metallic Glass Composites,” Scripta Mater. 45 (2), 245-252 (2001)
D. Dragoi, “Nonlinear Equations for X-Ray Crystal Orientation”, Journal of Applied Crystallography, February, 1992.
D. Dragoi, “Nonlinear Equations for Geometric Analysis of Linear Crack Patterns in Silicon Crystals” Acta Crystallographica, A48, May, 1992.
D, Dragoi, K. Kozaczek, T. Watkins, “Interpreting Oscillatory Bragg Peak Positions “,J. Appl. Cryst., 29, 496-7, 1996.
Ioan Opris, Danut Dragoi, Adrian Stoica, Estate Sokhadze, Manuel F Casanova, Noninvasive Nanomagnetic Approach for Prefrontal Cortical Microcircuit Mapping, 12th Annual World Congress of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, L.A. Convention Center, March 6 – 8, 2015.

Computer Skills

PC all current MS programs under Windows (i.e., Excel, Power Point, Access, Word),
Scientific Calculations wares (Mathcad, Maple, Matlab, HiQ)
XAS Data Analysis Software
Design electron-ion optics with SIMION
Engineering design with SolidWorks
Optical design with TracePro
Programming in LabView, Fortran, Basic, True Basic, Visual Basic, HTML, CGI
Special X-ray Diffraction Programs: DIFRAC/AT-Siemens, DM2000-Scintag, POWD-Pen State, WinFit
Finite Element: ANSYS
Rietveld programs: High Score Plus v.2.1b, Topas, GSAS-PC, Siroquant, FullProf, DBWS9006, DBWS9411, KoalaRiet, Rietica.
Special XRF programs for Rigaku ZSX 100e, Rigaku ZSX Primus II machine
Ab-initio material characterization with Endeavor and Crystallographica software