Dimca was born in
Cernavodă on 21 July 1953. He competed in the
International Mathematical Olympiad in 1970, 1971, and 1972, earning one bronze medal and two silver medals. He obtained his PhD in 1981 from the
University of Bucharest; his thesis "Stable mappings and singularities", was written under the direction of Gheorghe Galbură. Among his influential professors we mention
Dan Burghelea, Martin Jurchescu, Constantin Bănica, and Lucian Bădescu. Dimca's
Google Scholar h-index is 38. Dimca is a distinguished mathematician working in various aspects of algebra, geometry, and topology. He has written four important books in this field:
Hyperplane Arrangements,
Sheaves in Topology,
Singularities and Topology of Hypersurfaces, and
Topics on real and complex singularities as well as more than 180 journal papers. Dimca started his research career in Romania, where he worked at the
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy from 1979 to 1988. He then was a visiting member at the
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in
Bonn and the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey. After working as Senior Lecturer at the
University of Sydney from 1991 to 1994, he became a professor at the
University of Bordeaux, from where he moved in 2004 to
Côte d'Azur University in
Nice. == Honors ==