English translation from the Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Valentin Grigore is the creator and president of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (founded in 1993). He is a meteor observer (with exceptional results at the Leonids 1998 meteor shower), a popularizer of astronomy, a member of the International Meteor Organization and some astronomical societies in Europe and Japan, an astrophotographer (some of his photos being published by IMO, NASA, European Halo Project, etc; he also received a diploma from the International Library of Photography), and an organizer of astronomical events (including EuRoEclipse Perseids 99, with participants come from four continents).