Research

Research projects (selection):

• Navigating Overlapped Crises in Europe: Romanians' Migration Projects and the Interplay of Emigration and Return,  Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Ministry of National Education – UEFISCDI, position: project director (2025-2026).

• Strengthening Farm Health and Safety Knowledge and Innovation Systems, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, European Commission – Horizon Europe, position: project director for the Romanian partner (2023-2026).

• Reframing Non-Metropolitan Left Behind Places Through Mobility and Alternative Development, Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, European Commission – Horizon Europe, position: researcher (2023-2026).

• Establishing a Laboratory of Cultural Heritage in Central Romania, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, European Commission – Horizon Europe, position: researcher (2023-2025).

• The Politics of Street (Re-)Naming Practices: Symbolic Geographies and Identity Landscapes in Postsocialist Romania, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Ministry of National Education – UEFISCDI, position: researcher (2020-2022).

• Names, Places, and Identities: The Nominal Order and Toponymic Regime of Post-Socialist Romania, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Hasso Plattner Institute // Hasso Plattner Foundation, position: researcher (2020-2022).

• The Romanian Immigrants’ Integration Index, Romanian Center for Comparative Migration Studies, Ministry of Internal Affairs – Romania, General Inspectorate for Immigration, position: researcher (2020-2022).

• Returnees’ Innovative Skills and Knowledge: Becoming Entrepreneur through Migration Experience, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Ministry of National Education – UEFISCDI, position: project director (2018-2020).

• Migrants' life courses: dealing with uncertain, highly destandardized biographies in Romania, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu – Centrul pentru Cercetare Socială (CCS), General Inspectorate for Immigration, Ministry of Internal Affairs – Romania, Ministry of National Education – UEFISCDI, position: researcher (2018-2020).

• Youth mobility: Maximising opportunities for individuals, labour markets and regions in EU, University of Bucharest, European Commission HORIZON 2020, position: researcher (2015-2018).

• Temporary versus Permanent Migration, University of Bucharest, European Commission, FP 7, position: researcher (2014-2018).

• Rethinking Individual Representation: Campaign Personalization and Legislative Behavior, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Ministry of National Education – UEFISCDI, position: research assistant (2013-2016).

• The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-Border Practices and Transnational Identities among EU and Third-Country Citizens, University of Bucharest, European Commission, FP 7, position: research assistant (2013-2014).