Dinu is the Technical Director for the High-Field Solid-State NMR National Research Facility based at Warwick. He obtained a PhD at University of Nijmegen in Netherlands and performed postdoctoral research at MIT and CNRS. Dinu worked for 20 years as manager of NMR research facilities in Canada and UK, assisting hundreds of users to perform NMR experiments for structural characterization of solids with applications across chemistry, materials science, life sciences and environmental sciences.