Projects - Andreea Popovici

Mavis Artificial Heart

Wireless total artificial heart and companion app for monitoring, power, and implant checks — volunteer on the core team.

ISMCS & Heart Hackathon (Utsunomiya, Japan); Expo Osaka Health & Wellness Week; team awards for the project.
2023 – Present

Biomedical Engineering Flutter Medical Devices Research

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AntibioticeSkills

AntibioticeSkills — Antibiotic Manufacturing

Hands-on track in commercial pharma manufacturing, including Nystatin, at an industrial-scale site.

Factory-floor processes, scale production, and internationally commercialized workflows.
Oct 2025 – Mar 2026

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Quality Control Industrial Processes

High Performance Sports — Taekwondo ITF

Elite ITF taekwondo — national titles plus European and World Championship medals.

2nd Special Techniques, Senior Worlds 2023; Master of Sports (Ministry of Sports).
High-performance competitive career — ongoing

Elite Sports Competition Leadership Discipline

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Taekwondo ITF

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ASB Iași

Biomedical Engineering Students Association Iași

Volunteer & assistant in IT & Design and Logistics for student events and the national BENG conference.

Christmas with Smiles, donation campaign, National Biomedical Engineering Conference for students.
Oct 2023 – Dec 2024

Event Organization IT & Design Logistics Volunteering

High Performance Sports — Karate ITF

ITF karate — patterns and combat on the same competitive line as taekwondo; full story on the taekwondo project page.

National / international podiums; shared ITF training & competition calendar with taekwondo.
Parallel to taekwondo profile — see project page

Karate ITF Competition Discipline Performance

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Karate ITF

Highlights

Awards, conferences, internships, and volunteering — context alongside the project portfolio.

Achievements

Awards

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Honours, grants, and competition results

Honorary Citizen Title — awarded by Iași City Hall, 10/2025
Excellence Award of 1000 euro — Dan Voiculescu Foundation, 01/2025, in the "100 Young People for the Development of Romania" National Program
"Most Advanced Design" Team Award — Heart Hackathon, Utsunomya, Japan, 11/2024
National Champion — Taekwondo ITF National Championship, Baia Mare, Romania, 10/2023
Vice World Champion — Taekwondo ITF World Championship, Tampere, Finland

Conferences and events

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International appearances and Romania — posters & publications

Member of yESAO — Young European Society of Artificial Organs (young researchers network linked to ESAO).

International

31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support — 12/2025, Vienna, Austria
Heart Hackathon — Vienna, Austria, 12/2025
Represented Romania with the Mavis Artificial Heart Team — 06/2025, during the "Health and Well-being" week at the World Expo, Osaka, Japan
30th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support — 11/2024, Utsunomiya, Japan
Heart Hackathon — Utsunomiya, Japan, 11/2024

In Romania

"Transcutaneous Power Supply System for Active Implantable Medical Devices" — 11/2025 (poster), A. Popovici, O. Pintilii — NextHealth Mavis Hackathon, Iași, Romania — 3rd Place
"Virtual Controller for Monitoring and Control of an Artificial Heart" — A. Popovici, 05/2025 (published), National Conference of Bioengineering for Students and Young Researchers — BENG Conference, Iași, Romania — Special Award
"Robotic System for the Handling of Potentially Hazardous Substances" — A. Popovici, I. Abageru, 04/2024 (published), National Conference of Bioengineering for Students and Young Researchers — BENG Conference, Iași, Romania — Special Award

Internship and volunteering

Antibiotice S.A. — Internship

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Iași, Romania · European Co-funded Project

„AntibioticeSkills: Enhancing Student Skills and Workforce Integration”

Conducted qualitative and quantitative chemical analyses using HPLC and UV–VIS
Worked in sterile industrial laboratory environments and within the factory's research center

HPLC UV–VIS Industrial lab Internship

Training & Research Center for Tissue Engineering

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"Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania — Internship

Prepared and handled cell cultures under controlled laboratory conditions
Performed biomaterials scaffolding through hydrogel design and fabrication, as well as extrusion-based 3D printing/bioprinting using a CELLINK INKREDIBLE printer

Cell culture Hydrogels Bioprinting Internship

Bioengineering Students Association Iași

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Member of the Executive Board

Contributed to the coordination of academic and outreach events (BENG Conference, blood donation campaign, charity events), developing leadership, decision-making, and collaborative skills.

Leadership Events BENG Conference Volunteering