Dr. Babiuc conducts research in numerical relativity on black holes and gravitational radiation. Specifically, she is developing methods to solve the Einstein equations in a full 3D code to stimulate black hole evolution and to compute the gravitational waveforms emitted by an in-spiraling binary system.

Dr. Babiuc taught undergraduate General Physics courses to physics and engineering students at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University and at the University of Suceava, both in Romania. At Marshall, she is responsible for teaching Modern Physics and Modern Physics Lab, as well as General Physics and Biomedical Physics. In addition, Babiuc is instructing two students in advanced individual studies and is supervising a capstone experience.  

Prior to coming to Marshall, Dr. Babiuc completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, where she designed and maintained websites for the Apples-with-Apples Alliance and the Pitt Numerical Relativity Group.  As a visiting scientist at the Albert-Einstein-Institut in Golm, Germany, she developed strategies for obtaining physically realistic boundary data.   Dr. Babiuc has attended numerous training workshops in supercomputing, including: Introduction to the Cray XT3 Workshop, Introduction to Tera-scale Code Development, Enabling Technologies for High End Computer Simulations, New Methods for Developing Peta-scalable Codes, and the Cactus Retreat.  

telephone: (304) 696-2754

e-mail: babiuc@marshall.edu