Eugen Pavel

Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the claimed inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM.

Pavel graduated with a physics degree from the University of Bucharest in 1976. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1991 and obtained his doctorate in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992.

He won the "Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique" and a gold medal at the November 1999 EUREKA Contest in Brussels for inventions that led to the creation of the Hyper CD-ROM. Dr. Pavel has published more than 40 books and articles, and he is the holder of 62 patents and patent applications.

Hyper CD-ROM
The Hyper CD-ROM is a proposed 3D optical data storage medium which uses Fluorescent Multilayer Disc technology with a reported capacity of 1PB and a theoretical capacity of 100 EB on a single disc. Despite its bold claims the technology has not been shown as a working prototype in the over twenty years since its announcement.

The Hyper CD-ROM technology is patented in 21 countries: the USA, Canada, Japan, Israel and 17 European states.

In an interview about his work on the Hyper CD-ROM, Dr. Pavel stated that "the research for this project is 100% personal, [and] so is the support for experiments."