INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS"
WELCOME TO ICSFS XXII!
Each year, the International Conference ”Students for Students” brings together bachelor’s and master’s students from the fields of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for a wide exchange of knowledge and expertise. The conference is hosted by the Chemistry Student’s Organization in partnership with the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering within Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and the local branch of the Romanian Chemical Society. The 22nd edition (hybrid format) will take place between the 22ndand 25th of April 2026 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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ABOUT
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "STUDENTS FOR STUDENTS"
XXII EDITION
SECTIONS:
CHEMISTRY
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
STEM WITH APPLICABILITY IN CHEM&CHEM.E.
WHAT IS ICSFS ABOUT?
WHERE
WILL IT
TAKE PLACE?
WHEN
DOES IT
TAKE PLACE?
WHO CAN ATTEND
THE CONFE-
RENCE?
A platform for young researchers to share their findings and initiate their scientific careers
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
22ND-25TH
of April
Wednesday-Friday starting at 10:00
Saturday starting at 11:00
Anyone in Cluj or watching online on YouTube is welcome to join as an attendee and enjoy the conference sessions
ICSFS XXII
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
ICSFS XXII PROGRAM
Wednesday, 22.04
Thursday, 23.04
Friday, 24.04
Saturday, 25.04
Wednesday, 22.04
- 09:30 – 10:00 – WelcomeHub
- 10:00 – 10:30 – Opening ceremony
- 10:30 – 11:30 – Plenary session – Dan Cristian Vodnar: Molecular gastronomy and modern biotechnological processes involved in the development of valuable compounds
- 11:30 – 11:50 – Coffee break
- 11:50 – 12:50 – Oral presentations | Chemistry section
- 11:50 – 12:05 – Claudia Melisa Boje: Examining the modulatory role of dietary constituents on hemostatic coagulation pathways
- 12:05 – 12:20 – Florina Antonela Loredana Nagy: Preparation and characterization of alginate-based bioactive dressing with liposomal turmeric
- 12:20 – 12:35 – Mihai Claudiu Bala: Novel organontin(IV) chalcogenides – synthesis and characterization
- 12:35 – 12:50 – Bianca Ioana Furnea: A comparative study of the reactivity of several boronic acids in the synthesis of corannulenes through Suzuki-Miyaura coupling
- 12:50 – 13:50 – Lunch break
- 13:50 – 14:50 – Oral presentations | Chemistry + Chemical Engineering section
- 13:50 – 14:05 – Ioana Alexandra Mânzat: Spectroscopic evaluation of the interaction of myoglobin with biomedical relevant compounds
- 14:05 – 14:20 – Adrian Cristea: The mono- and bicoordination ability of PCPX (X= O,S,Se) systems towards transition metals: DFT perspectives
- 14:20 – 14:35 – Ákos Sándor Molnár: Real-time conductometric monitoring of Ibuprofen release from Hydroxyapatite. Finding an optimal detection medium
- 14:35 – 14:50 – Taisia Bareian: Process modelling and comparative assessment of CO2 capture integrated with alternative methanol synthesis routes
- 14:50 – 15:10 – Coffee break
- 15:10 – 16:10 – Oral presentations | Chemical Engineering section
- 15:10 – 15:25 – Victoria Cocervei: Comparative evaluation of antioxidant activity of grape and berry concentrates for functional food applications
- 15:25 – 15:40 – Ștefania Georgiana Sandu + Andrei Vlad Cristescu: Permeable pavement systems based on natural aggregates for efficient water drainage
- 15:40 – 15:55 – Anastasia Chiriac: Green extraction of secondary metabolites from Sempervivum tectorum L. using Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES)
- 15:55 – 16:10 – Alexia Maria Buzilă: 3D CFD modeling of CO₂ methanation in a packed bed reactor
- 20:00 – Escape the Lab CleoPub
Thursday, 23.04
- 09:30 – 10:00 – WelcomeHub
- 10:00 – 11:00 – Plenary session – Matteo Romano: The value of flexibility in electrified industrial processes
- 11:00 – 11:20 – Coffee break
- 11:20 – 12:20 – Oral presentations | Chemical Engineering section
- 11:20 – 11:35 – Sofia Oleinic: Development and characterization of nanocellulose‑reinforced polymeric membranes from reed biomass for food packaging application
- 11:35 – 11:50 – Margarita Zakieva + Mihai Răzvan Popescu: Ammonia cracking as a method for green hydrogen recovery
- 11:50 – 12:05 – Andreea Miruna Pild: Aspen Plus simulation of plastic‑waste pyrolysis integrated with post‑combustion CO₂ capture
- 12:05 – 12:20 – Dorian Andrei Rus: CFD modelling of biogas dry reforming reactor for hydrogen production
- 12:20 – 13:20 – Lunch break
- 13:20 – 14:20 – Oral presentations | Chemistry section
- 13:20 – 13:35 – Ștefan Ionel Dumitrescu: A theoretical study on chiral boranes and their adducts with Lewis base ligands
- 13:35 – 13:50 – Bogdan Andrei Stoian: Rational design of metal complexes stabilized by mono‑ and bis(phosphaalkenyl) tetrylenes
- 13:50 – 14:05 – Horațiu Casian: Computational study of diniobadicarborane and ditantaladicarborane clusters having from 8 to 12 vertices
- 14:05 – 14:20 – Andreea Anita Szász: Synthesis and characterization of novel Ru‑curcuminoid complexes
- 14:20 – 14:40 – Coffee break
- 14:40 – 15:10 – Company presentation ARQES
- 15:10 – 15:40 – Oral presentations | Chemistry section
- 15:10 – 15:25 – Narcis Mădălin Arsene: Hexanitrometalates. Structural and thermal analysis
- 15:25 – 15:40 – Anna Borisova: Engineered AVPI‑based peptidomimetics as potent XIAP antagonists
- 18:00 – 22:00 – ICSFS Gala Restaurant Casa Universitarilor – Piramida UBB Cluj
Friday, 24.04
- 10:00 – 11:00 – Oral presentations | Chemistry section
- 10:00 – 10:15 – Gabriel Sergiu Tăbăcaru: Design and convergent synthesis of tetraurea macrocycles for anion transport across membranes
- 10:15 – 10:30 – Maria Mihaela Șerban: Strategic integration of N‑heterocyclic carbene units into [2]rotaxane architectures
- 10:30 – 10:45 – Bianca Andreea Paltin: Towards novel Hydrazone-based covalent organic polymers
- 10:45 – 11:00 – Teodor-Sebastian Doroftei: Heavy metal cadmium in commercial chocolates: current market surveillance and relationship with cocoa percentage
- 11:00 – 11:20 – Coffee break
- 11:20 – 12:20 – Oral presentations | STEM + Chemistry + Chemical Engineering section
- 11:20 – 11:35 – Tudor Mihai Chiciudean: Soft sensor development for Cluj-Napoca wastewater treatment plant utilizing artificial neural network modelling
- 11:35 – 11:50 – Alexandru Răzvan Buhai: Synthesis and antibacterial evaluation of quaternary phosphonium salts
- 11:50 – 12:05 – Denisa-Cesara Andronic: Evaluation of drought stress and biochar effects on Phaseolus vulgaris based on proline quantification
- 12:05 – 12:20 – Andrei Șerban: Spin states and crystal field effects in new Fe(II) complexes
- 12:20 – 13:20 – Lunch break
- 13:20 – 14:20 – Plenary session – Sofia Pascu: Investigations into organic–inorganic hybrids as fluorescent theranostic systems: confocal imaging and MPFLIM cellular mapping
- 14:20 – 14:40 – Coffee break
- 14:40 – 15:40 – Oral presentations | Chemistry section
- 14:40 – 14:55 – Lucia Alexandra Grădinaru: Computational approach to explore Bilirubin-Like Compounds
- 14:55 – 15:10 – Răzvan Ghiuri: Synthesis of [{2-(2,2’-bipyridin)-6-yl}phenyl]mercury(II) chloride and transmetallation reactions
- 15:10 – 15:25 – Claudia Bîrcea: Homoleptic diorganotellurium(II) derivates containing pyrazole rings – synthesis and structural characterization
- 15:25 – 15:40 – Nicoleta Stoian: Chemical structure and target space profiling: a layered SOM approach
- 20:00 – Quiz GAP
Saturday, 25.04
- 11:00 – 12:00 – Poster session 1 | Chemistry + Chemical Engineering + STEM
- Ilinca Smaranda Baba: Computational investigations of nucleophilic substitutions at tetrylene centers
- Lidia Emilia Marincaș: Materials for selective removal of toxic compounds from cigarette smoke
- Andreea Mihaela Hotea: Impact of brown (Alaria esculenta) or red (Gracilaria gracilis) algae included in the functional hamburgers on the physical-chemical parameters of blood in healthy young women
- Lavinia Victoria Negrea: Cocoa polyphenol–induced salivary protein binding and precipitation: mechanistic Insights into astringency
- Ioana Vasea: Factorial design model for the synthesis of ethyl butyrate mediated by lipase B from Candida antarctica encapsulated in sol-gel matrix
- Eluța Ana Georgiana Lavița: The estimation of hydrodynamic parameters for a reach of Someșul Mic River
- Briana Țăran: The investigation of water quality in the urban area of Cluj-Napoca during autumn and winter
- Alexandra Maria Bălțat: Cascade biotransformations mediated by a single enzyme. The pathway by which human carbonic anhydrase transforms α-haloketones into enantiopure epoxides
- Radu Daniel Savulescu: Computational Characterization of Fungal Acetohydroxyacid Synthase (AHAS) Inhibitors: Integrating Herbicide Data for Antifungal Discovery
- Ilinca Lianu: A Novel Matrix Inversion Approach for Computing the Dynamical Response Function in Electron–Phonon Systems
- Alpár András Daczó: Computational mapping of metabolite binding to antibodies and potential consequences for antigen recognition
- Cristian Cociș-Vagner: Structural, morphological, and optical properties of electrospun ITO with cubic bixbyite-type structure
- Marian-Valentin Dumitru: Synthesis of novel triazine-based chemical probes for protein labeling
- Cipriana Tcaci: A new HPTLC approach for comparative digestibility assessment of starches via sequential α‑amylase and α‑glucosidase hydrolysis
- Daiana-Dara Milin: Advancing Iridoid Analysis: Trim–Hill Reagent as New Derivatization Agent in HPTLC
- Daria Maria Ursa: Controlled end‑to‑end plasmonic coupling: L‑cysteine‑mediated gold nanoparticle assembly for SERS and CD applications
- Andreea Bohuș: Development of an enzymatic technology for the synthesis of 3(4‑hydroxy‑3‑iodophenyl)propanoic acid and its application in the iodine biofortification of Lactuca sativa crops
- Andrei Oargă: Shining light on the interaction of therapeutics with albumin
- Ilinca Elena Grigorescu: Structural effect analysis of the thermal degradation of a series of nitrobenzaldehydes
- 12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch break
- 13:00 – 14:00 – Workshop – Zoltán Bálint: Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- 14:00 – 15:00 – Poster session 2 | Chemistry + Chemical Engineering + STEM
- Aylar Batyrova: The influence of coordinated anions on the structure and properties of Mn(III) complexes with Schiff bases
- Andrei Ioniță: Production of recombinant cytochromes P450 in E. coli
- Leah Freundlich: Novel Red-Shifted Functionalized Oxadiazoles for Materials Applications
- Emese Bender: Structural and morphological effects on visible-light driven photocatalytic activity of hybrid Fe3O4/ZnO magnetic NPs
- Alexia Ioana Cojocaru: pH‑responsive aryl azo‑thiadiazoles for biological applications
- Dominic Horațiu Leta: Acylhydrazones with indene and phenol substituents as potential molecular photoswitches
- Tudor Alexandru Ciolan: Synthesis of terbium complexes for imaging and pharmacological applications
- Andreea Türke: Influence of dissolved ions on the corrosion behavior of copper and steel in aqueous media
- Ștefan Dăscălescu: Chelation-assisted SPE-C18 strategy for trace cadmium determination in commercial rice
- Dora Cristiana Parauan: Mathematical model for municipal solid waste pyrolysis
- Mihaela Daniela Mușetescu: Synthesis of copper-chelating azides for biochemical applications
- Bianca Larisa Pantiș: Digital SERS: optimisation of the quantitative chemical analysis protocol at ultra-low concentrations
- Emese Beáta Kulcsár: High load, no loss: selective biocatalytic diketone‑to‑diol reduction
- Victor Trocan: Reactivity of phosphavinyl(chalcogenoxo)phosphoranes towards organolithium reagents
- Amalia Ileana Apolțan: Coordination ability of phosphavinyl(selenoxo)phosphoranes towards transition metals
- Iulia Ceban: HPTLC fingerprinting for origin differentiation and quality assessment of cocoa beans
- Paula Crețu: Gas‑phase kinetic studies on the OH‑radical initiated oxidation of Thymol and Carvacrol
- Eduard Andrei Asandei: UV–Vis investigations of nitroaromatic compounds associated with biomass burning emissions
- Corina Muntean: Modification of graphene oxide nanosheets with citric acid
- 15:00 – Closing ceremony
GENERAL NEWS ABOUT ICSFS XXII
REGISTRATION PERIOD
ABOUT ICSFS XXII
Our team
Denisa-Cesara ANDRONIC: Coordinator and member of the Chemistry Students’ Organization
Mădălin-Andrei VIZITIU: Coordinator and member of the Chemistry Students’ Organization
Ilinca-Smaranda BABA: Assistant coordinator and member of the Chemistry Students’ Organization
Matei IOSEF: Assistant coordinator and member of the Chemistry Students’ Organization
Each year, more than 60% of the OSC members are involved in the organization of the project. Furthermore, the organizing committee has always had the kind support of the professors of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
