Aurel Gontean graduated the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania in 1986. He received the PhD degree in 1998, from the same university. He became a full professor in 2005. He is IEEE Senior Member.
He is a PhD Advisor since 2008 (field: Electronics and Telecommunications); 5 PhD thesis were delivered meanwhile.
Starting 2009, he is visiting professor at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach, Germany. From 2004 till 2012 he was vice dean of the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Timisoara, Romania.
He has been appointed as EU expert for evaluating project proposals for the Scientific Research Fund, Sofia, Bulgaria, from 2008 to 2009.
He published over 150 papers, 8 books, 3 chapters in international books, has over 35 contracts and grants and holds 4 patents.
His current research interests are Energy Harvesting, Memristor, Smartcities.
