Native of Rumania; 2001 Ph.D. in Mathematics, thesis advisor: David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley; 2001-2004: Research Fellow, Clay Mathematics Institute (Visting positions: Université de Nice, Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge), Harvard University); since 2004: Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan (since 2008 Professor); main research interest: algebraic geometry, in particular in various invariants of singularities of algebraic varieties, such as minimal log discrepancies, log canonical thresholds, multiplier ideals, BernsteinSato polynomials or F-thresholds