Summary

Simona Nistor Barna is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi. Her research focuses on differential geometry, particularly biharmonic maps, biconservative submanifolds, and geometric analysis. She has published in journals like Differential Geometry and its Applications and Communications in Analysis and Geometry.

• Research Grants: Director of PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-0429 (2021) and member of multiple other grants
• Awards: Silver medal in Internet Mathematical Olympiad (2011), Summer School Fellowship (2015)

Her work includes classification of biconservative surfaces in spheres and studies on polyharmonic maps. She has given invited talks at institutions including California State University and University of Vienna.