Viorel P. Barbu

Viorel P. Barbu (born 14 June 1941) is a Romanian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, control theory, and stochastic differential equations.

Biography
He was born in Deleni, Vaslui County, Romania. He attended the Mihail Kogălniceanu High School in Vaslui and then the Costache Negruzzi National College in Iași. Barbu completed his undergraduate degree at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași in 1964, and his Ph.D. at the same university in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Adolf Haimovici; his dissertation thesis was titled Regularity Theory of Pseudodifferential Operators. He became a professor at the University of Iași in 1980.

In 1993, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy. In 2011 he was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Knight rank by President Traian Băsescu.