Gheorghe Paun (Romanian: ['ge?orge p?'un]; born December 6, 1950 in Cicane?ti, Arge? County) is a computer scientist from Romania, prominent for work on membrane computing and the P system.
Paun studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, obtaining an MSc.
in 1974 and a PhD in 1977 under the direction of Solomon Marcus.
He has been a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy since 1990.
Paun was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2006, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 2012.