I am a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of European Politics headed by Prof. Frank Schimmelfennig at ETH Zurich. I teach graduate courses in research design and qualitative methods and undergraduate courses in contemporary European politics. I received my PhD from the European University Institute in 2024. I have also held visiting, research, or teaching positions at the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security, Syracuse University in Florence, the University of Lucerne, Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna, Central European University, George Washington University, and St Antony’s College, Oxford.
Beyond academia, I serve on the Advisory Board of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I am a member of the Strategic Reflection Group “Romania in the EU” convened by the President of Romania, and I serve on the Academic Advisory Board of the European University Institute’s EU Security Initiative. I also co-founded the Quartet Institute, a Bucharest-based foreign-policy think tank. My commentary on European and Romanian foreign policy has appeared or been quoted in the Washington Post, Politico Europe, The New York Times, Der Standard, Euractiv, among others.