Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures--Avms-2025: Proceedings of the 18th Avms, Timişoara, Romania, May 30-31, 2025

Nicolae Herisanu is a professor at the University Politehnica Timişoara, Romania (UPT), with over 30 years of teaching and research experience in theoretical and applied mechanics, acoustics, and vibration. Alongside Vasile Marinca, he co-authored three acclaimed monographs, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Engineering, The Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method, and Optimal Auxiliary Functions Method for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Springer, 2011, 2015, and 2021). The second monograph earned the Romanian Academy’s prestigious award in 2017. Professor Herisanu serves on the editorial boards of several reputable journals and has contributed to numerous national and international research projects.

Vasile Marinca is a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and a senior researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Technical Research (CCTFA) under the Romanian Academy’s Timişoara branch. He is also a senior researcher at the University Politehnica Timişoara, where he taught and conducted research in theoretical and applied mechanics and applied mathematics for nearly 40 years. Dr. Marinca has authored over 200 papers in esteemed journals and conference proceedings.