Educational background
2003- present PhD in Social Psychology (nonverbal communication field)- University of Bucharest, Romania
2001- 2003 Master in Communication and Public Opinion- University of Bucharest, Romania and University of Trieste, Scieze della Communicatione, Italy
1997- 2001 Bachelor in Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
1994- 1997 High school for teachers “Matei Basarab”, Slobozia, Ialomita county
Professional competencies
Business Area
Teaching area
Speaking appearances
Publications
Current activity
Managing Director & Founder of Acta Nonverbal (2002- present)
Key responsabilities include coordination of all projects and clients of the company (trainings, coaching, teambuildings, media relations, public relations strategies, internal & external communication strategies, organizing various events, etc.), editing the first Romanian portal dedicated to nonverbal communication www.nonverbal.ro and launching the online magazine, Nonverbal Magazine.
Corporate Affairs Manager for Elmec Romania (August 2006- February 2007)
Key responsabilities include to build and implement corporate communication strategy, to promote and improve company’s image, act as representative of company in relations to the public and media, develop and manage external and internal communication of the company, organizing corporate events and CSR campaigns.
PR & Communication Manager for Elmec Romania (July 2005- July 2006)
Key responsabilities include working with all media channels (print, TV, radio) for assuring PR coverage, elaboration of communication materials (press releases, advertorials, etc.), organizing events (launching new shops, fashion parades, press conferences, sponsorships campaigns, CSR campaigns), sustain corporate communication and media monitoring activities.
PR Manager for Cremcaffe Espresso (November 2004- March 2005)
Key responsabilities include maintaining relations with mass media, creating company identity, organizing special events (press conference, open days, competitions etc.), organizing customer satisfaction surveys, elaborate public relations strategy.
Editor for Cariere (first Romanian magazine about human capital) (March- September 2004)
Key responsabilities include writing articles and doing research in the human resources field, interviewing personalities and professionals for different sections of magazine, doing investigative search for gathering information necessary to ongoing themes, participanting in various conference and training programs in the human resources field.
Sociologist for National Institute of Criminology, Ministry of Justice (August 2003- March 2004)
Key responsabilities include conducting studies and surveys in the criminology field, coordinator of Phare projects, responsible with the relation between National Institute of Criminology, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of European Integration, organizing conferences upon Romanian integration into European Union.
English Teacher for Lauder Reut Jewish Foundation and for Colleggio Dimesse, Trieste- Italy (2000- 2003)
Key responsabilities include daily lessons development and motivational learning for children, analyze and develop children abilities, using instructional strategies for teaching English, develop program content for stage performances and coaching children through all stages of preparation.
Researcher for Radio Televisione Italiana RAITRE, Regional Center of Friuli- Venise- Giulia, Trieste- Italy (March- July 2002)
Key responsabilities include studying norms and laws upon public and private Italian television, identifying structure of public television audience using qualitative methods, preparing boardcast show for students Agora.
Technical Assistant for Center of Media Studies and New Communication Technologies, Bucharest (2000- 2002)
Key responsabilities include developing team research projects, organizing international seminars and publishing various materials in English and French, organizing Romanian- French workshops on communication sciences.
Research projects
2004- present “How clothes influence positively first impression in the context of job interview”in collaboration with University of Bucharest, coordinator prof. dr. Septimiu Chelcea.
2002-2004 “How children use and understand nonverbal communication” in collaboration with Lauder School, coordinator prof. dr. Septimiu Chelcea.
2001- 2002 “Cultural profile of theater consumer” in collaboration with the Center for Media Studies and New Technologies of Communication and Odeon Theater (coordinator prof. dr. Ioan Dragan)
2001-2002 “Impact of September 11 2001 events upon public opinion in Romania” in collaboration with Center for Media Studies (coordinators prof. dr. Ioana Dragan and conf. dr. Valentina Marinescu)
2000- 2001 “Influence of family environment upon juvenile delinquency”, coordinator prof. dr. Septimiu Chelcea.
2003 “Profile of movie goer”in collaboration with Holywood Multiplex Movie Theater.
2003 “Televison and interpersonal behaviour- codes of perceptions and answers”, coordinator conf. dr. Valentina Marinescu.
2002 “People Meter Technology- comparative studies between AGB Italy and AGB Romania”, coordinator prof. dr. Dorel Abraham.
2001 “Impact of internet upon the interpersonal communication” coordinator conf. dr. Valentina Marinescu.
2000 “Advertisments in Romanian newspapers- tendencies 1990-1998″, coordinator prof, dr. Alfred Bulai.
Foreign Languages
English- fluent
Italian- fluent
French- advanced
Spanish- beginner
Scholarships
2002- Erasmus Scholarship, University of Trieste, Italy where I followed at “Scieze della Communicatione”courses like Public Relations, Advertising, Semiotics, Image promotion of a private company, Techniques of Television Language, Information and Computer Technologies, Discourse Analysis and political communication.
1995- Second prize in the National Contest for Psychology students
Summer schools
2003 Summer School on Management of Human Resources, University of Bucharest where I followed courses like Microeconomics, Organizational Psycho- Sociology, Evaluation of human resources, Risk Management, Evaluation of performances and Career management, Labor laws, Organizational culture, Management of Human Resources in the sector of public administration.
2002 Summer School on Market Research, University of Bucharest where I followed courses like Advertising, Research for Advertising and media, Trademark and construction of a trademark, Briefing and criteria of evaluatinf advertisments, Creativity.