Education:
Student, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Cluj, 1957-1962 Ph.D., Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest (Romania), 1970

Professional experience:
Research Assistant, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, October 1962 – September 1970
Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, September 1970 – October 1990

Associate Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, October 1990 – October 1992

Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, October 1992 – October 2004

Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, October 2004 – Present

Fields of interest:
Applied Mathematics: fluid mechanics and heat transfer with application to the boundary-layer theory, heat transfer in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, magnetohydrodynamics and convective flow in fluid-saturated porous media.

Teaching experience:
Theoretical mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, boundary-layer theory, differential and integral calculus and courses for staff and departmental development.

Honours:
1. Research prize awarded in 1968 by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Science
2. Gheorghe Lazar prize awarded in 1983 by the Romanian Academy of Science for the book Unsteady Boundary Layer Theory (in Romanian)
3. Opera Ominia prize awarded in 2002 by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Science for long outstanding teaching and research activities
4. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2004: Outstanding Paper Award presented to I. Pop, T. Grosan and M. Kumari for the paper: Mixed convection along a vertical cone for fluids of any Prandtl number: case of constant wall temperature, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 815-829, 2003
5. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2004: Outstanding Paper Award presented to Y.Y. Lok, N. Amin, D. Campean and I. Pop for the paper: Steady mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid near the
stagnation point on a vertical surface, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 15, No. 7, pp. 654-670, 2005.
6. Member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters, Norway, 2005
7. Spiru Haret prize awarded in 2006 by the Romanian Academy of Science for the book Low Reynolds Number Viscous Incompressible Flow: Theory Methods and Applications. WIT Press, Southampton, 2004.
8. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2009: Outstanding Paper Award presented to N.F. Abd Kadir, D.A.S. Rees and I. Pop for the paper: Conjugate forced convection flow past a circular cylinder with internal heat generation which is embedded in a porous medium. International Journal Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 730-744, 2008.
9. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2010: Outstanding Paper Award presented to Simon D. Harris, Derek B. Ingham and I. Pop for the paper: Impulsive Falkner-Skan flow with constant wall heat flux:
revisited, International Journal Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 1008-1037, 2009.
10. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2011: Outstanding Reviewer Award presented to Professor Ioan POP for work: International Journal Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, 2010.
11. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2012: Outstanding Paper Award presented to A.M. Rohni, S. Ahmad and I. Pop for the paper Boundary layer flow over a moving surface in a nanofluid beneath a uniform free stream, International Journal Numerical Methods in Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 828-846, 2011.
12. Emerland LiteratiNetwork 2012: Outstanding Reviewer Award presented to Professor Ioan POP for work on International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 2011
13. Ioan POP, Distinguished Reviewer of Zentralblatt MATH, 2014
14. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2016: Outstanding Reviewer Award is awarded to Prof. Ioan Pop
15. Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2017: Outstanding Reviewer Award is awarded to Prof. Ioan Pop
16. loan M. Pop and Teodor Grogan: Award for Excellence in Global Contribution, Scopus Awards Romania, 2017.
17. Ioan POP, Review Certificate for Mathematical Methods in Applied Sciences, 2017.

Research activities:
Publications: 10 books, 11 review chapters, more than 1000 research journal papers published in different national and international journals and Proceedings of Conferences. In the last 12 years (2006-2018) there are more than 800 published or online ISI papers and there are more than 1000 citations in the last 15 years. My h (Hirsh) index for 2020 is 76 and I was named a “Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher” for 2015 and 2016, and Highly Cited Researcher for 2018 by Clarivate Analytics.
Supervised, co-supervised and examination of PhD theses:

I have supervised 6 PhD students at the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca up to now, co-supervised more than 20 PhD students (University of Leeds, UK, Ohio State University, USA, University of Regina, Canada, University Technology Malaysia, National State University, Malaysia, University Putra Malaysia, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan, Anna University, India, etc. and have
been an external examiner for more than 50 PhD theses. Director of the Centre for Excellence in Mechanics of the Romanian National Research Council:
(since 2001). This Center has been classified the second one with 88.5 points out of four existing such center in Romania Grants:
1. Project funded by the European Community (jointly with Prof. Derek B. Ingham from the University of Leeds, England), 1994
2. Projects funded by the Romanian Council for Science (CNCSIS), 1995-2005
3. Project funded by The Royal Society, London (jointly with Prof. Derek B. Ingham from the University of Leeds), 1998-2007
4. NATO ASI grant (jointly with Prof. Derek B. Ingham, 50.000 EURO) for organizing an International Conference on Porous Media, Neptun-Olimp, Romania, 2003
5. NATO grant (jointly with Prof. A. Baytas and Prof. Ingham, 12400 EURO) for the project Computational Investigation of Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Enclosures, 2006-2008.
6. Grant PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0036, UEFISCDI, Romania, 2017-2019.