Anca Mitchell

Recent publications

A.I. Florescu-Mitchell and J.B.A. Mitchell

Dissociative Recombination

Physics Reports, Volume 430, Issues 5-6, August 2006, Pages 277-374

Recent translations

French into English

• Patents
• Environmental documents for chemical industry
• Contracts for nuclear industry
• Technical manuals and reports for the Machine Tool and Aeronautics Industries
• Defence documents on missile testing
• Mining/Environmental Project (over 200,000 words)
• Company procedures
• Medical/pharmaceutical
• Mechanical engineering
• Construction
• Technical documents for the gas industry

Romanian into English

• Press releases
• Geotechnical reports
• Construction
• Railway transportation

My colleague Brian Mitchell is a native English speaker and a Professor of Physics at the University of Rennes with more than one hundred scientific publications. Together we can provide translations between English, French and Romanian.

English into French

• Patents
• Websites
• Simulation games (Second Life)
• Technical manuals
• Press releases
• Newsletters
• Cosmetics/Pharmaceutical
• Mechanical engineering

English into Romanian (see http://www.libraria.com.ro/index.php?r=Anca%20Florescu-Mitchell)

• Books

• “Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics” by Jeremy Bernstein (Oxford University Press)  for the prestigious Publishing House Humanitas in Bucharest (2008, http://www.humanitas.ro/carti/carte.php?id=2600)

• “Why People believe weird things” by Michael Shermer (First Owl Books Edition 2001, A W.H.  Freeman/Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company, NY)  for Humanitas in Bucharest (2009, http://www.humanitas.ro/humanitas/de-ce-cred-oamenii-bazaconii)
• “The three trillion dollar war” by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes (W.W. Norton and Company, 2008) for Editura Tehnica (2009, www.edituratehnica.ro)
• “The Unfinished Game” by Keith Devlin (Basic Book, 2009) for Humanitas in Bucharest (2010, http://www.humanitas.ro/humanitas/partida-neterminat%C4%83)
• “Is God a mathematician?” by Mario Livio (Simon & Schuster, 2009) for Humanitas in Bucharest (2011, http://www.humanitas.ro/files/media/este-dumnezeu-matematician.pdf)
• “Quantum Man – Richard Feynman’s Life in Science” by Lawrence M. Krauss  (W.W. Norton and Company, 2011)) for Humanitas, Bucharest (work in progress)

• Subtitling for Disney (Making-of and Bonuses for Pinocchio 1940, new release)

French into Romanian

• Technical manuals for the Machine Tool Industry
• Contracts for the automotive industry
• Mechanical engineering

Translation software

TRADOS, Wordfast, Poedit, Idiom, Transit

Previous Clients

EADS, Peugeot, Total, EDF (French Electricity Company), Metalor France and numerous translation agencies from Europe and US.

Education and previous professional experience

1994 Ph. D.  in Chemical Physics from the University of Paris XI (my thesis was written in French)

1989 Master’s Degree in Nuclear Physics from the University of Bucharest

During my twelve years experience as a researcher in Physics, I wrote scientific papers directly in French and English. My knowledge of the scientific and technical vocabulary in both languages is both wide and profound. I am also a person with a broad culture, including arts and history and thus very well qualified for translations in various areas such as environment, patents, education, films etc.

Research

• September 2003 - August 2005 Teaching and Research Associate at the University Rennes 1 (Physics)

• August 2001 - August 2003 Post-doctoral fellowship in the European network Electron Transfer Reactions – University Paris VI
• 1990-2001 Institute for Space Sciences  (ISS), Bucharest (Romania)
• Sabbatical leaves at the University of Pittsburgh as research associate in 1999, 2000, 2001.

• Adobe Acrobat
• Idiom WorldServer
• PowerPoint
• STAR Transit
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Word, Excel