Andrei Ternauciuc

Andrei Ternauciuc is a Head of Works at the Department of Communications of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology. He teaches courses and supports practical activities with students in a variety of fields, including educational and information technology, online platforms and telecommunications equipment testing. He successfully defended his PhD in 2011 with a thesis in the field of educational web platforms and open-source platforms, eLearning technologies being among his core professional interests, along with modern internet technologies.

He was responsible for UPT as a partner in 3 European projects and has participated as a member of research and development teams in a series of national and international projects, with partners from academia and industry. He is also the Head of the administration and development team of the Virtual Campus of UPT, the e-Learning platform of the Politehnica University of Timisoara.

His research interests include e-learning, Open-source software, and virtual laboratories. His publication list includes over 50 papers presented at different international conferences or published in scientific journals. He has almost 20 years of experience in working with learning management systems and has contributed to the design and implementation of various e-learning platforms, including ViCaDiS - Virtual Campus for Digital Students, CVUPT, UniCampus.ro, OpenVM and many others.