Păun Otiman

Păun Ion Otiman ( born May 28, 1942 in Gârbovăţ, district Caras -Severin ) is a Romanian agricultural scientists and economists. He is a member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest, was the founding president of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat in Timişoara and long-standing member of the Romanian Senate and President of the National Commissions for agriculture and education.

Biography

Otiman attended primary school in Gârbovăţ, high school and high school in Bozovici General Dragalina in Oraviţa. Studies at the University of Timişoara in Agricultural Science and Economics and the University of Bucharest in Agricultural Economics joined in and were each completed with honors. With his dissertation on management in agriculture in 1974 he received his doctorate for Dr. He was a lecturer (1971 ), Assistant Professor (1978) and professor (1990 ) at the Agricultural and Veterinary University of the Banat in Timisoara with an additional teaching load for graduate students. His teaching areas: Management, Farm Management, Economic cybernetics, information systems and agricultural policy.

Otiman published 14 books and more than 300 articles in Romanian and international journals. He was involved in a variety of national and European research projects and wrote as a project more than 20 procedure manuals. Emphasis of scientific work are:

  • Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Policy
  • Mathematical modeling of agricultural production
  • Technical and economic optimization of agricultural production
  • Economic analyzes

Otiman was a member of the national and a regional Senate (1990-2004), founding president of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat in Timişoara (1990-2004), Vice- President of the Romanian Rectors' Conference (2000-2004), Secretary General of the Romanian Academy of Sciences ( 2006-2008) and chairman of various committees of the world Bank, the Romanian universities and academies.

Păun Otiman is married to Prof. Diana Otiman; their son is an engineer and lecturer.

Awards and Affiliations

  • "Ion Ionescu de la Brad price " of the Romanian Academy of Sciences for the book " Optimisation of the Agricultural Production" ( Facla Publishing House, 1987).
  • "Opera Omnia " awarded by the Romanian Ministry of Education as a successful scientist (2000)
  • Dr. Honoris Causa of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest ( 2002)
  • Member of the editorial board "Revue of Science Policy and Scientometry " (2002-2008)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Series B: Chemistry, Life sciences and geosciences (2002-2005)
  • Member of the Executive Board of the Biotechnology Foundation "Black Sea " (2003-2005)
  • Editor of the journal " Economy and Rural Development" (since 2008)
  • Director of the Institute of Agricultural Economics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences (since 2008)
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