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1/ Academic experience

• Starting with 2020: Professor of Public Economics (full professorship), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics & Business Administration, Department of Finance, Informational System and Business Modelling, Romania (current teaching disciplines: undergraduate - Public Economics; master - Quantitative Methods for Business Decision, Applied Economics; doctoral school - Current Economic Issues)

• Starting with 2024: Visiting Professor, International Management Institute, ZHAW School of Management and Law, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland 

• Starting with 2011: Affiliate Researcher, University of Orleans, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orleans, France (LEO), team 'International Economics and Sustainable Development' (main research fields: International Economics, Applied Economics)

• Starting with 2019: External Professor, Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany (current teaching disciplines: master - Advanced Macroeconomics, Economics of Artificial Intelligence)

• 2021: DAAD Research Fellowship, Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen                              

• 2017-2020: Professor of Economics, ESCE International Business School Paris, France (teaching disciplines: undergraduate - Microeconomics, Money and Banking; master - International Trade and Globalization, Current Economic Issues) 

• 2016-2017: Researcher, Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies, Orléans & Tours, France, as Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, under the aegis of the European Commission 

• 2014-2017: Professor of Public Economics (full professorship), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics & Business Administration, Department of Finance, Romania (current teaching disciplines: undergraduate - Public Economics, Fiscal Policy; master - Applied Economics) 

• 2018: Invited Researcher, Salzburg University, Department for Social and Economic Sciences, Austria, to develop research project (very short period), with K. Nowotny

• 2017: Invited Researcher, University of A Coruña, Department of Economic Analysis and Business Administration, Spain, on the topic of wavelet with economics application (short period), with J. Lopez-Rodriguez 

• 2016-2017: Professor of Macroeconomics (external), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences, Department of Political Sciences, Romania (teaching disciplines: master - Macroeconomics

• 2016: Invited Researcher, Oxford Brooks University, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, United Kingdom, on the topic of wavelet with economics application (short period), with D. Asteriou 

• 2016: Invited Researcher, University Complutense de Madrid, Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Applied Economics II (DAE II), Spain, on the topic of ”Revenues inequality and economic growth” (short period), with M. García-Goñi 

• 2015: Invited Researcher, Konstanz University, Germany, research activity at Department of Economics (short period), for sharing the wavelet technique in economics, at the invitation of H. Ursprung                                  

• 2015: Visiting Researcher, University of Bordeaux, Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), France, on the topic of ”Environmental Kuznets Curve in France” (one month), with J-C. Pereau and E. Ursu 

• 2008-2014: Associate Professor of Public Finance, West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics & Business Administration, Department of Finance, Romania (current teaching disciplines: undergraduate - Public Economics, Fiscal Policy) 

• 2014: Invited Researcher, Poznan University of Economics, on the topic of ”Tax revenues and ageing in ex-communist EU countries” (short period), Poland, with M. Cieślukowski

• 2013: Invited Researcher, University of East Anglia, School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom, on the topic of ”Migration impact on tax revenue in Europe” (short period), with L. Harding 

• 2011: Invited Researcher, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpement International (CERDI), France, for exchange and research activity at Centre d’Excellence (short period) 

• 2003-2008: Senior Lecturer of Public Finance, West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics & Business Administration, Department of Finance, Romania (current teaching disciplines: undergraduate - Public Economics, Fiscal policy; Prices and competition) 

• 1999: PhD fellow, World Bank Scholarship, for doctoral research and documentation at Lille University of Science and Technology - Lille 1, France 

• 1998-2003: Teaching Assistant of Public Finance, West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics & Business Administration, Department of Finance, Romania (current teaching disciplines: undergraduate - Public Economics, Fiscal policy; Prices and competition)

2/ Education

• 2015: Qualification in Economics, Section 5, Conseil National des Universités (CNU), France

• 2014: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches - HDR (Habilitation diploma in Economic Sciences), University of Orleans, Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans (LEO), Rue de Blois - BP, 26739, 45067 Cedex 2, Orléans, France, http://www.univ-orleans.fr/leo, title: Old and new determinants of taxation

•  2013: Habilitation in Finance (Habilitation diploma in Finance), Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piata Romana 6, Bucuresti, RO 010374, Romania, www.ase.ro, title: New determinants of taxation

•  2004: PhD. in Economic Sciences - Finance (PhD. diploma in  Economic Sciences - Finance), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance, Timisoara,  Bd. V Parvan, nr. 4, Timisoara, RO 300223, Romania, www.uvt.ro, title: A study on contemporaneous budgetary systems

•  1999: Master degree (Master diploma in Taxation), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance, Timisoara,  Bd. V Parvan, nr. 4, Timisoara, RO 300223, Romania, www.uvt.ro, dissertation title: International comparative taxation

•  1997: Bachelor degree (Bachelor diploma in Finance - Insurance), West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance, Timisoara,  Bd. V Parvan, nr. 4, Timisoara, RO 300223, Romania, www.uvt.ro, license thesis title: The autocasco insurance

3/ Other affiliations

• 2015 - 2020: Senior Researcher, Weissberg Economics Research Center (WERC)

• 2013 - 2016: Associate Researcher, West University of Timisoara, East-European Center for Research in Economics and Business (ECREB)

• 2010 - 2016: Associate lecturer, The Experts Corp of Authorized Accountants from Romania (C.E.C.C.A.R.), Timis Agency