Brief CV

M.Sc., Ph.D. University of Bucharest (Romania)

PDF: LPPM, Universite de Paris-Sud XI and INSERM U473, France 1993 - 95        

Dean's Merit Award 2007-2010

Dean's Excellence Award 2004-2006, 2011-2015

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream (2015), Senior Lecturer (2004), Lecturer (1998- 2004)

Department of Physics, University of Toronto

 
Teaching 

Current (2014-2015):

Practical Physics I (PHY224H1), Practical Physics II (PHY324H1) - Coordinator
PHY250H1S and PHY250Summer (Electricity and Magnetism) - Lecturer and Coordinator

Past years

PHY231H1F Physics of the Living Systems (2010-2014)

PHY331H1S Introduction to Biophysics 2010

Second Year Laboratory (PHY225H, PHY280F, PHY281S, ESC 201H1F/202H1S) - Coordinator (2004-2009);

PHY238Y Physics for Life Sciences (2003-2008)

PHY346S Intermediate Biophysics 1999-2002 and 2006-2008

First Year Physics Laboratory for PHY110Y and PHY138Y- Coordinator (1998-2004)

PHY251S Electricity and Magnetism - Lecturer (1999-2002)

PHY280F Elements of Physics II - Lecturer (Fall 2002)  

 
Research Interests

Physics Education Research

Threshold Concepts

Some Publications

• M. French, F. Taverna, M. Neumann, S.Browning, D. Harrison, J. Harlow, K. Ing, R. Serbanescu, C. Banks, L. Paulo-Kushnir, Textbook use in the sciences and its relations to course performance, College Teaching (2015) - accepted
• D. Harrison, R. M. Serbanescu, Threshold Concepts in Physics, PESTLHE ISSN 1750-8428, Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship and Learning in Higher Education, Vol 10 Special Issue (2015): Threshold Concepts and Conceptual Difficulty (Eds. R. Land, J. Rattray, R. Matthew).
• R. M. Serbanescu, Threshold Concepts in Physics; too many to count, PESTLHE ISSN 1750-8428, Practice and Evidence of the Scholarship and Learning in Higher Education, Vol 10 Special Issue (2015): Threshold Concepts and Conceptual Difficulty (Eds. R. Land, J. Rattray, R. Matthew).
• R.M. Serbanescu, P. Kushner: "Setting a new lab course: from drafts to running it for the first time" Int. J. Arts Sci. 3(9), 203 (2010)
• R.M. Serbanescu, P. Kushner, S. Stanley: " Putting computation on a par with experiments and theory in the undergraduate curriculum" Am. J. Phys. 79(9), 919 (2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3593296

• M. Neumannn, C. Banks, S. Browning, J. Clarke, J. Harlow, D. Harrison, K. Ing, L. Kushnir, C. Kutas, J. Pitre, R.M. Serbanescu, M. Wall, R. Wilson: "Serial Team Teaching and the Evolving Scholarship of Learning: Students' Perspective" - CELT, vol 1 (28-34), STHLE Publ. (2008)

• S.Crapatureanu, R.M. Serbanescu, S. Bisley Brevitt, R. Kluger - "Molecular Necklaces. Cross-linking Hemoglobin with Reagents Containing Covalently Attached Ligands" - Bioconjugate Chemistry 10(6), 1058-1067 (1999)

• R.M. Serbanescu, M. Marden, L Kiger, C. Poyart - "Fluorescent Effector as a Probe of the Allosteric Equilibrium in metHemoglobin" - Biochimica Biophysica Acta 1363, 79-84 (1998)
• C. El-Hanine-Lmoumene, L. Lindqvist, R.M. Serbanescu - "Fast Evolution of the pKa of Protein-Bound Flavin Semiquinone Generated Photochemically Using UV Laser Irradiation" - in: Flavins and Flavoproteins 1996 (K.J. Stevenson, V. Massey, C.H. Williams - eds.)  pp. 139-152, University of Calgary Press, Calgary (1997)
• L. Frunza, R.M. Serbanescu - "Hemoglobin Interaction with Some Polyvalent Cations" - Journal of Molecular Structure 348, 17-20 (1995)
• L. Frunza, R.M. Serbanescu - "Tin Tetrachloride Interaction with Human Hemoglobin" - General Physiology and Biophysics 12, 507-516 (1993)