Petru Florin Mihancea graduated in 1998 "Emanuil Gojdu" Highschool from Oradea, Romania. In the same year
he started his engineer studies as a student of the Faculty of Automation
and Computers, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania.
In 2002 he received the Best Software Engineer Award at the first
LOOSE (Laboratory of Object-Oriented Software Engineering) competition and he was invited to join
the LOOSE Research Group , a research group focused on
object-oriented reengineering and quality assurance.
Based on his work as a LRG member, he prepared his diploma and master theses. He received in 2003 his
Diploma-Engineer title in Computer Science and Engineering, and in 2004 his M.S. both from the same faculty.
At present he continues his research activity in the field of object-oriented reengineering as a phd student.
He is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
the "Politehnica" University where he is responsible for the
Laboratory of Object-Oriented Programming and for the Laboratory of Software Engineering Fundaments .
He is also affiliated with the e-Austria Institute in Timisoara where he has a position of junior researcher.
He published 11 papers in national and international conferences and workshops on metrics, quality assurance and
re-engineering.