Research

Recent projects coordinated (Principal Investigator) at the University of Bucharest:

• 2021-2023: The project RIS4CIVIS: Research and Innovation Strategy for CIVIS in the CIVIS European University Alliance (European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101016691). I was the institutional coordinator of the project at the University of Bucharest. I was also the leader of Module 5: “Mainstreaming of Open Science” in RIS4CIVIS.

• 2020-2022: Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution - CartesianPhysics (UEFISCDI, Project Code: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0841). 

• 2018-2020: Early Modern Cosmology Between “Mosaic Physics” and Mechanical Philosophy (1650-1713) - Cosmology (UEFISCDI, Project Code: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0710).

Currently, I am member of the research team for the project Avatar agency. Moral responsibility at the intersection of individual, collective, and artificial social entities in emergent avatar communities (avataResponsibility; ERC funded project by the European Union ERC 101117761).

I organise and co-organise seminars and scientific events at the Humanities division of the ICUB. For the seminars hosted at the ICUB, see the Research Seminars page.

I am part of the expert groups digital transformations (HUB5. Digital and Technological transformation) and open science (“Task Force Open Science” and “Expert Group Open Science” in CIVIS, “Module 5. Mainstreaming of Open Science” in RIS4CIVIS) in the European university alliance, CIVIS.  I am a member of the Research Council of the CIVIS alliance.

I am coordinating Open Science projects at the University of Bucharest (2024-2026):

• 2025-2026: Project coordinator for the CoARA Boost grant (Horizon), "Laboratory of Engagement with Research Assessment Reform (LERAR): exchanging good practices between three members of one European university alliance, CIVIS." A Teaming, project, developed at the University of Bucharest in collaboration with Universidad Autonoma de Madrid și Aix-Marseille University.

• 2024-2026: Project Coordinator at the University of Bucharest for the project “Știința Deschisă (Open Science) și reforma evaluării rezultatelor cercetării: Elaborarea unui plan de acțiune în cadrul participării Universității din București la CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment)” [Open Science and the Research Assessment Reform: preparing the University of Bucharest’s action plan for CoARA], as part of the Grant program for Increasing Institutional Performance and Priorities in Priority Areas of the University of Bucharest.

• 2024-2026: Project Coordinator for the project “Noi orizonturi în evaluarea rezultatelor cercetării” [New Horizons in Research Assessment], a team-project aiming to chart the practices of Open Access publications at the University of Bucharest. 

For professional service and membership, visit the Professional activities page.

Previous research grants:

2020-2022: Principal Investigator of the research project Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution - CartesianPhysics (UEFISCDI, Project Code: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0841).

2018-2020: Principal Investigator of the research project on Early Modern Cosmology Between “Mosaic Physics” and Mechanical Philosophy (1650-1713) - Cosmology (UEFISCDI, Project Code: PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0710).

2017-2018: Member in the research project The emergence of mathematical physics in the context of experimental philosophy (2017-2019, project manager Dana Jalobeanu. CNCS grant no. 79/2017).

2015-2017: Member in the research project Collaborative research, technological advancement and experimental philosophy in the 17th century: The Hartlib Circle and the rise of the “new science”, project manager Oana Matei. CNCS grant no. 362/01/10/2015.

2012-2016: Member in the research project From natural history to science: the emergence of experimental philosophy, project manager Dana Jalobeanu. CNCS grant no. 294/05/10/2011.

2010-2013: Post-Doctoral research grant at the University of Bucharest (POSDRU ID 62259). Title of the research project: Schimbări de paradigmă şi naşterea ştiinţelor moderne. Recepţia tratatului de filosofie naturală carteziană a lui Jacques Rohault în Anglia (Paradigm Shifts and the Birth of Modern Science. The reception of Jacques Rohault’s Cartesian treatise on natural philosophy in England).

2008-2011: Member in the research project Stiinta, politica si utopie in Republica Literelor: Modele de producere si diseminare a cunoasterii in modernitatea timpurie (Science,Politics and Utopia in the Republic of Letters: Models of Producing and Disseminating Knowledge in Early modern Europe), project manager: Vlad Alexandrescu. CNCSIS grant no. 758/2009.

2008-2009: NEC-link grant for teaching the course on “Beyond Kuhnian paradigms: philosophy of science within historical context” (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest). Director of grant: Dana Jalobeanu. Course offered in co-teaching system together with Dana Jalobeanu and Prof. Ilie Parvu. Grant offered by New Europe College.

2008: Research grant (PICNIC) for Ph.D. candidates at Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands).

2007-2008: Young Doctoral Students Grant (TD), Offered by The National Research Council (Romania). Contract no. 402/ 10.2007.

2005-2006: Huygens scholarship for research at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands – a 10 month scholarship offered by Nuffic, starting 1st October 2005.

Research experience:

Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. July 2016, June-July 2017, September-October 2019.

The Seminars of The Foundations of Early Modern Thought (2001- 2013).

Center of Research in Logic, History and Philosophy of Science Seminars in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Bucharest (2009-2015).

Princeton University. September 2013.

CNRS/ BNF, Paris. January 2013.

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Visiting scholar (2005-2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2025).

From Natural Philosophy to Science, European Science Foundation Programme (ESF), Junior Researcher in Team 1 (2004-2008).