Postdoctoral and doctoral stages

Visiting fellow, GESIS-Leibnitz Institute for Social Sciences, Köln (February-April 2013)

Visit study at INCHER, University of Kassel, related to conducting tracer studies (graduate surveys), 9-14 July 2010.

Visiting fellowship, Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung – Universität zu Köln, January-February 2007 (“Social Capital and the Welfare State”)  [grant FP6, 026142 RITA, ZA-EUROLAB 01-07-MV]

Visiting fellowship, CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg, October-November 2006 (“Poverty, Inequality and Gender Values”) (grant IRISS – C/I Contact 026040 (RITA), 6th Framework Programme, project 16-13-mv) [grant FP6, 026142 RITA, ZA-EUROLAB 01-07-MV]

Short research and documentation stage in the Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy, Bratislava, (joint Romanian Academy & Slovak Academy grant), 7-14 October 2004

Visiting researcher (research and study stage) at Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden, April-September 2000 (University of Bucharest grant)

Visiting researcher (research and study stage) at Kyonggi University, Suwon, South Korea: study of the Korean capitalist welfare pattern, May-June 1999 (University of Bucharest grant)