13 May 2026
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) marks another significant international accolade with the selection of professor Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, PhD, to join top European researchers as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), one of the most prominent Pan-European academic entities.
“This accolade reflects the high quality of research conducted at UBB by our colleague Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, whose outstanding research in bioorganic and computational chemistry can be applied to the study of antineoplastic drugs and blood substitutes as well as oxidative and nitrosative stress. Professor Silaghi-Dumitrescu is also chair of the UBB Scientific Council (since 2012), director of the Centre for University Strategy (since 2020), and head of the Office for Open Science (since 2024), playing a consistent role in both advancing research and reinforcing the institutional policies of the University. His election as a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts reinforces the contribution of the UBB academic community to national and European developments in science”, according to the UBB rector, professor psych. Daniel David, PhD.
Founded in 1990 and based in Salzburg, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) is home to around 2,000 members from around the world – renowned researchers, artists, and experts. Academia is structured into seven academic classes or divisions: Humanities, Medicine, Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Law and Economics, Technical and Environmental Sciences, and World Religions. Within the field of science, the academy is very well represented, including over 30 Nobel Prize winners, selected through a rigorous three-stage process of nomination and peer review.
For more information about the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, click on the link www.euro-acad.eu.
Tradition and Excellence with Culture-Science-Innovation since 1581
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) is the university with the most complex academic profile in the country (by its number of programmes and multicultural profile featuring three official academic languages: Romanian, Hungarian, and German), and with the oldest academic tradition in Romania (established 445 years ago – 1581), accounting for the largest academic community in the country (with a staff of more than 55,000 people, from 15 cities and 12 counties). Ever since its establishment, UBB has been one of the most prestigious and influential universities in Romania; for several years now, UBB has consistently ranked among the top 5% of the world’s universities (out of approximately 30,000), with an advanced academic infrastructure (e.g. RDI units integrated into European networks, up-to-date teaching laboratories integrating virtual/augmented/mixed reality through the UBB-EON-XR Centre, etc.). Recently (2021), following the international QS STAR audit, UBB was officially ranked as the first world-class university (QS*****) in Romania, and in 2020 UBB was included in the GUILD, the organisation of the most prestigious European world-class/research-intensive universities, it was awarded the European HR Award for Excellence, and as of 2021/2022 it is a member of the EUTOPIA alliance of European universities.
