Welcome speeches - Panel Discussions
Panel discussion on Self-regulating profession and Land administration prospective
Chair
Prof. Dr. Eng. Petre Iuliu Dragomir
Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
Mr. Petre Iuliu Dragomir graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
His first assignment was as geodetical engineer at the Institute for Studies and Hydropower Designs, Bucharest.
In 1975 Mr. Dragomir started his academic career at the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest holding the Assistant position.
He obtained his Ph.D. Diploma in 1988 and reached the position of Professor in 1993.
Between1996 and 2015 he held the management roles: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Geodesy and Head of Department of Surveying and Cadastre.
Parallel to the academic career, he supported, as a consultant, the World Bank project that introduced General Cadastre and Land Registration in Romania (1999-2006).Between 2006-2011 he was
- General Director of Geodesy and Cadastre Department, at the National Office of Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography (ONCGC)
- Deputy General Director and Director of Geodesy and Cartography Department, at the National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (ANCPI).
Mr. Dragomir is a founding member of the Romanian Surveyors Union, performing as chairman of the Engineering Surveying Committee and member of the Romanian Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
Author of numerous books, publications in different scientific journals and at national and international professional conferences.
All this time he was a member in numerous organizing committees, scientifically committees, participating various national and international workshops and symposiums.
Ms. Gerda Schennach
Chair
FIG Commission 7
Gerda SCHENNACH has a Diploma (MSc) in geodesy from the Technical University Innsbruck and the Vienna Institute of Technology. She is graduated from a commercial college as well.
From 1978 – 1981 she worked as an assistant at the Dept. of Mathematical Analysis at the Vienna Institute of Technology. Since 1981 she was affiliated to the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV).
Between 1983 and 1998 Mrs. Schennach was Director of regional Cadastral offices and since 1998 she holds the function of a senior advisor for International affairs in the Headquarters of BEV.
Mrs. Schennach is a founding member of the Austrian Umbrella Organization for GI (AGEO) to which she was a Secretary General since the foundation in 1998 and since 2012 she is the Vice-President of this association. She has been several times elected to the Executive Board of EUROGI.
Since 1998 she is a member of the Executive Board of the Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG- FIG member assoc.). She is a permanent correspondent of BEV in several European institutions (EuroGeographics, Eurostat, e.a.) and a member of the German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management (DVW) since 1984.
Between 1998 and 2007 she was Secretary-General of the European Council of Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE).
Between 2005-2014 Mr. Schennach was a Vice-Chair of the Working Group for equal rights in the Austrian federal Ministry of Economy, Youth and Family.
Mrs. Schennach was a Vice-Chair of Administration of FIG Commission 3 from 1990-1994, Vice-Chair of Commission 7 and Chair of WP 7.3 “Cadastral perspectives” between 2011 - 2014.
Mrs. Schennach is elected Chairperson of FIG Commision 7 “Cadastre and Land Management” for the term of office 2015 – 2018 and a member of the FIG Council for the term 2017-2018.
Alexandru Dorin Păun
UGR Tulcea
Mr. Alexandru-Dorin PĂUN is a geodetic engineer working at his own private company called TopoDeltaPAD, a company activating in The Cadastre field, since 2005, while he studied at The Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest – Faculty of Geodesy.
He graduated in 2008, Geodesy Specialisation, after sustaining his project, “3D Digital Heritage Environment”, project that he had made at Universität der Bundeswehr München, after gaining the right to apply and then obtained an Erasmus Scholarship, due to his good learning outcomes during his 5 years of faculty.
In 2009 he graduated from Postgraduate Studies: GIS (Geographic Information System) at Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest – Faculty of Geodesy and his Dissertation Project was “Comparisons between 3 types of leveling: Geometric Leveling, Trigonometric Leveling and The Leveling using GNSS Technology”.
Since 2011 he is an Authorized Expert in realizing and verifying specialised work in the field of Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography with B Category, certified by The National Agency of Cadastre and Land Registration – Romania and he also graduated a training course as a Mediator. Since 2012 he is a Real Estate Appraiser, certified by The Romanian National Association of Assessors (ANEVAR) and recently he obtained his degree as Project Manager.
Since 2014 he is Member of The Romanian Geodesy Union (UGR – professional association) and Secretary of the UGR’s Tulcea Subsidiary. In 2015 he was Member of the mixed commission formed by The Romanian Geodesy Union (UGR) and the National Agency of Cadastre and Land Registration (NACLR), to modify and complete The Authorization and Recognition Order for individuals and companies working in the fields of Cadastre, Topography, Geodesy and Cartography.
Panel discussions on National Program for Cadastre and Land Registration
Chair
Ph.D Eng. Ileana Spiroiu
Deputy General Director
ANCPI
Mrs. Ileana Spiroiu is, from July 2016, Deputy General Director of National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (NACLR), position which she held previously for 4 year (2006 – 2007 and 2009 – 2012). Between 2008 and 2016, Mrs. Spiroiu was appointed as director of the National Centre for Mapping. She is experienced with more than 20 years in land restitution activities in Romania and 7 years experience in the management for EU financed Projects such as LAKI I and II projects (Land Administration Knowledge Improvement) and CENTRIC project in the frame of Horizon 2020. Mrs. Ileana Spiroiu has BA and Ph.D. degree at the Faculty for Geodesy from Technical University for Construction of Bucharest. As well, she holds a BA degree in Law. Mrs. Spiroiu is an active Vice-president of Romanian Surveyors Association. Since 2007 she is associate professor at the Cadastre Department of the Agronomic Faculty from Craiova University. She is author of numerous articles and publications, co-author of Geodesy-Topography course.
Eng. Cosmin Ciuculescu
President of Bucharest 6
UGR local association
Mr. Cosmin Ciuculescu graduated the Faculty of Geodesy at the Bucharest Technical University of Civil Engineering in 2009, he completed the master courses in 2011 at the same Universitie with geomatic specialization. Since 2011 he has been involved in the implementation of free real estate registration programs in the integrated cadastre and land book systems. He has participated in the CESAR 1 and CESAR 2 program and he is currently involved in the PNCCF 2015-2023. During this period he was the author or co-author of several articles presented at domestic and international conferences and symposia, including GeoPrevi 2011, GeoPrevi 2015, Geocad 2014, Geocad 2016, Geomat 2014, Geomat 2015 FIGYN 2013, FIGYN 2014, FIGYN 2016. From 2009, he is a member of the Romanian Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing National and since 2014 he is the President of UGR Sector 6.
Ph.D. Eng. Valeriu Manolache
President
Romanian Association of Private Surveyors
Mr. Valeriu Manolache graduated in 1984 from the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania as Diplomat Engineer in Geodesy and Remote Sensing and obtained his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest,Romania. With an experience of over 30 years, he has worked until 1990 as project engineer at the “Institute of Studies and Design for Land Reclamations” of Bucharest and after that, as private surveyor, establishing in 1990 his own company, named Theotop. As specialist and owner of Theotop he participated at the realization of the first major projects of cadaster, photogrammetry and GIS in Romania, projects financed by the World Bank, E.U. and the Romanian Government. He was associated professor between 2008-2011 at the Faculty of Geodesy of the Technical University of Civil Engineering from Bucharest, General Secretary of Romanian Geodetic Union between 1998-2004 and Vice-president of Romanian Geodetic Union between 2000-2014, in present president of the Romanian Association of Private Surveyors since 2000, representative of the Romanian Liaison Group in CLGE (the Council of European Geodetic Surveyor and FIG (Fédération Internationale des Géomètres). Author of numerous publications in different scientific journals and at national and international professional conferences.
Prof. Ph.D Eng. Gheorghe Badea
Dean of Faculty of Geodesy
Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
Prof. Ph.D Eng. Gheorghe Badea, Dean - Faculty of Geodesy (2016 to the present), Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest.
Prof. Badea graduated in 1989 from Faculty of Geodesy – Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania. In 2003 he received a Ph.D from the same University for his thesis "Some Results in the Study of Using Cadastral Data in Land Information Systems".
Between 2012 and 2015 he was acting as Vicedean of Faculty of Geodesy.
His main teaching and research activities at the Faculty of Geodesy is focused on Cadastral Systems in Urban Areas, Information Systems Specific to the Activity Fields, Methods of Real Estate Recording and GIS Applications. He is also collaborating with the Faculty of Planning - "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism and at the Faculty of Geography - University of Bucharest. At the same time, he has been involved in several research and educational projects as team member as well as project manager for EU financed Projects. During the time he was acting in the private sector and also he collaborated with ANCPI for development of technical normative.
Prof. Badea is Member of the Romanian Surveyors Association and Member of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing National Society. He was involved in the committees of many scientific conferences and he was the President of the Scientific symposium with international participation GeoPreVi2011 and GeoPreVi2015.
Panel discussions on GEOID determination
Chair
Lecturer. PhD. Eng. Paul Dumitru
Faculty of Geodesy, UTCB
Dumitru Paul Daniel, 37 years old, is lecturer at Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest (TUCEB) – Faculty of Geodesy (FG), with over 15 years of experience in Geodesy, Topography, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing fields. In 2011 he finalized the doctoral thesis with the subject “Contribution to the determination of the quasigeoid on the Romanian territory”. In 2004 he developed the license thesis at Ecole Nationale de Sciences Géographiques (ENSG), Institute Géographique National (IGN), Marne la Vallée, France due to the Socrates –ERASMUS program. In 2005, he also attended the two weeks summer school at ENSG/IGN on the geoid modelling subject and he obtained a certificate. During over 15 years in TUCEB-FG he participated in various research projects and Grants has participant, project manager or technical manager. His research activities also consisted in writing articles, monograph and participating at different national and international symposiums. He elaborated and published 66 articles out of which 14 articles with ISI quotation. Since 2004 to 2010, together with teaching activities inside of TUCEB-FG he was employer of the National Agency of Cadaster and Land Registration (NACLR) from Ministry of Administration and Internal Affairs as specialist adviser. Here, he initiated and participated at different national level projects and programs. He initiated the development project ROMPOS (Romanian Determination Positioning System) having and active participation beginning with the design of the National GNSS Permanent Network (NGPN), mounting, controlling and monitoring of the permanent stations, until the implementation of the differential DGNSS/RTK correction service provided by NGPN. Also, he was in charge with the GNSS measurements adjustment in the National Spatial Geodetic Network points of A, B, C and D class which formed the bases of the software application (TransDatRO) development regarding the official coordinate’s transformation in Romania. He was the Romanian representative in the EUPOS (European Position Determination System) Technical Commission and member in the implementation team of the INSPIRE Directive. He is member of the Romanian Geodesist Union (RGU) and member of the Romanian Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Society (RPRSS). In the frame of RGU he is the secretary of the commission three: “Positioning and measurements”, the FIG correspondent in Romania and secretary of editorial college of the Journal of the Geodesy, Cartography and Cadaster.
Ph.D Eng. Ileana Spiroiu
Deputy General Director
ANCPI
Mrs. Ileana Spiroiu is, from July 2016, Deputy General Director of National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (NACLR), position which she held previously for 4 year (2006 – 2007 and 2009 – 2012). Between 2008 and 2016, Mrs. Spiroiu was appointed as director of the National Centre for Mapping. She is experienced with more than 20 years in land restitution activities in Romania and 7 years experience in the management for EU financed Projects such as LAKI I and II projects (Land Administration Knowledge Improvement) and CENTRIC project in the frame of Horizon 2020. Mrs. Ileana Spiroiu has BA and Ph.D. degree at the Faculty for Geodesy from Technical University for Construction of Bucharest. As well, she holds a BA degree in Law. Mrs. Spiroiu is an active Vice-president of Romanian Surveyors Association. Since 2007 she is associate professor at the Cadastre Department of the Agronomic Faculty from Craiova University. She is author of numerous articles and publications, co-author of Geodesy-Topography course.
Dr. Vasile Chiriac
General Secretary CLGE
Republic of Moldova
Mr. Vasile Chiriac was graduated in 1976 as Dipl. Engineer at the High Defence Mapping School, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. After 10 years working as geodetic surveyor of Military Topographical Service he continues his studies at Defence Engineering Academy, Moscow, Russia.
In 1992 he defined his doctoral thesis and come back to Moldova to create Military Topographical service of National Army, and was the Head of it from 1994 to 2004. He was Commander-Rector of Defence Academy “Alexandru cel Bun”.
In 2006 he runs a research Department at the Institute of Geodesy, Engineering Research and Cadastre, and between 2010 and 2012he was General Director of Blom Ltd, Moldova Company.
He was associate professor at the Faculty of Cadastre, Geodesy and Construction of Technical University of Moldova.
Mr. Chiriac is the President of Moldavian Union of Surveyors, and General Secretary of CLGE (the Council of Geodetic European Surveyors).
Mr. Ralf W. Schroth
Managing Director Blom
Deutschland GmbH, Germany
Dr. Ralf W. Schroth, studied Geodesy and Surveying from 1972 up to 1977 at the University of Stuttgart, in 1979 he obtained his degree as legal surveyor, and in 1985 obtained the degree of Doktor-Ingenieur. From 1984 till 2008 he has been working with the company Hansa Luftbild in Muenster, where he was acting in different managing positions like as managing director and member of the board of the Hansa Luftbild Group. From 2008 till 2016 Ralf Schroth was working for the Norwegian Blom Group as managing director in Germany and Romania, business development director for central and eastern Europe and organizing the off-shore production at Blom International Operations SRL, Romania. Since 2017 he is co-owner of Blom Germany and Director at Blom International Operations Romania. Ralf Schroth has many years of experiences in business administration and management, project management, Photogrammetry and Geo-Information systems. From 1991 till 2015 he has been lecturer at the University of Hanover for business administration and management for surveying engineers. In 1997 he got the appointment as honorary Professor from the University of Hanover. From 2004 till 2008 he was also lecturer at the Institute of Geomatics at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona and since 2015 at the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart. Ralf Schroth is member of DVW - Gesellschaft für Geodäsie, Geoinformation und Landmanagement, Deutscher Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation (DGPF) and Uniunii Geodezilor din Romania.
