Team – European Institute for Development Studies

The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the European Institute for Development Studies is composed of young scientists, experts in the economic and social development of contemporary societies. We advocate for collegial decision-making process to ensure coherence of all the works carried out and disseminated by the European Institute for Development Studies. Our values and ethics put forth our personal and professional best. We are driven by a shared passion for scientific research and teaching.

Dr. Dorina ROSCA

President

Dr. Dorina ROSCA

President

Dorina holds a PhD in Socio-economy of Development from the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France), awarded with the highest distinction. Recently, in 2023, she was elected President of the RC09 - Social Transformations and Sociology of Development, within the International Sociological Association. Still in 2023, she was awarded a Fulbright grant at Marymount University, Virginia, USA. She is also an Associate Researcher at Ladyss (UMR 7533 CNRS). Since 2009, Dorina has been teaching courses in Economics and Sociology at various Parisian Universities. Dorina's research is focused on the Central and South-East European countries, taking a broad interest in their economic, social and political development. She is particularly interested in the various forms of capitalism developed under the influence of migration, of the reciprocity as forms of economic integration (in Karl Polanyi's terms), etc. In 2019, Dorina published the book 'Le grand tournant de la société moldave: Intellectuels et capital social dans la transformation post-socialiste' with Presses de l'INALCO, Paris. in 2022, she co-edited the book "Republica Moldova: 30 de ani in 30 de cuvinte", Chisinau: Cartier. Dorina is fluent in English, French, Romanian, and Russian.

Raisa DAMASCHIN

Tresurer

Raisa DAMASCHIN

Tresurer

Raisa is the founder of "RD Conseil", specializing in accounting, management, and business administration. Since October 2023, she has balanced her professional live in accounting with the treasurer position at IEED.

Dr. Dorin DUSCIAC

Secretary

Dr. Dorin DUSCIAC

Secretary

Dorin holds her PhD degree in Physics at Ecole Polytechnique Lyon, France. He works as an engineer-researcher at the National Laboratory Henri Becquerel of the French Atomic Energy Commission.

Associate Research Officers

Doina GUZUN

Research officer

Doina GUZUN

Research officer

Doina has an educational background in Political Science, Political Marketing and Communication, Migration, and Interethnic Relations. Combining her academic knowledge with practical experience, and a strong commitment, Doina is aiming to build a successful professional background in policy making area. Passionate about communication, she also excels in project management. Doina has participated in several international scientific events, including the World Sociology Congress in Toronto, Canada, in 2018, where she co-authored with Dorina Rosca.

Associate Researchers

Dr. Elvira BARKHATOVA

Elvira is an Associate Professor at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad. She is currently teaching Spanish as a second language, and neurolinguistics. Her educational background includes a Specialist degree in Translation Studies, an MA in Foreign Language Teaching, and a PhD in Linguistics. Her primary research interests include cognitive linguistics, English lexicology, neurolinguistics. One of the main focuses of Elvira’s current research is cognitive neology, i.e. the study of neologisms from cognitive perspective. She has experience as a visiting scholar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2019-2020) under the DAAD Immanuel Kant Program, and at University of Maryland in College Park (2023-2024) under the Fulbright Faculty Development Program.

Dr. Marian BOJINCA

Marian received his PhD in Sociology from The University of Bucharest in 2012. He has several years of experience with qualitative research and strategic consulting. In 2007 he joined Gallup Romania and Quality of Life Research Institute - Romanian Academy. He also worked as a consultant with international organizations (UNDP Romania, UNICEF Romania, ILO) or non-governmental organizations (Civil Society Development Foundation, Save the Children, Soros Foundation). Marian has experience designing qualitative research projects covering a variety of themes: international migration and transnationalism, children and youth, human rights, education, ethnic minorities. He participated in several assessment missions, including analysis of the impact of affirmative measures for Roma in educational institutions, mapping of adolescents and youth-friendly services, policy analysis for regulating immigration in Romania and projects and programs for young people over 18 leaving the child protection system.

Dr. Iulia CORNIGEANU

Holding a PhD in Sociology and Master Diploma in Advanced Research Methods at the University of Bucharest, Iulia has been designing, managing and delivering research projects for more than 15 years - both in academic and commercial environments, in Romania and the UK. Her expertise covers a wide range of topics (social and political research, brand strategy, customer segmentation and loyalty, digital/ user experience) and methodologies (online communities, ethnography, qualitative and quantitative adhoc/tracking studies, immersive workshops or hybrid approaches). Currently involved in UX research in the travel industry, her previous assignments include positions such as Research Director for Join the Dots UK, Executive Director of Kantar TNS Romania or various consultancy roles for GfK, Synovate/ Ipsos or KBC Consumer Finance. Besides her commercial roles, she has also been actively involved in various educational programmes for young researchers or training sessions covering a variety of themes.

Margita ENGSTRÖM

Margita ENGSTRÖM

Margita is a Doctoral candidate in technology at Aalto University of Science , DIEM (Finland). She is an international strategist with extensive experience working with global life sciences and technology companies across Europe in academia, corporates and consultancy. Margita is interested in tracking the record of identifying and delivering growth and revenue opportunities in new markets for technology SMEs and investors. She is experienced in restructuring business processes to create alignment with new strategic goals – processes involving finance, supply chain, investment, decision-making, customer services, sales & marketing – to deliver bottom-line rewards. Margita uses an innovative, incisive approach with board-level management experience in her work.

Prof. Ulrike Schuerkens

Prof. Ulrike Schuerkens

Ulrike Schuerkens is a professor of sociology and social and cultural anthropology at the University of Rennes 2, where she coordinated the ManaGlobal project funded by the European Union within the LiRIS EA 7481. Her research focuses on businesses and entrepreneurs in Africa. She has published around fifteen works on social transformations and globalization. She initiated the continuing education modules that are managed by AFI-L'UE.

Katerina FUKSOVA

Katerina FUKSOVA

Kateřina Fuksová is an anthropologist and historian based at Charles University in Prague. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Ethnology from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and a Master's degree in Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Tartu (Estonia). She is currently pursuing her PhD in Modern History at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, specialising in Eastern Europe, particularly the Republic of Moldova and its capital city, Chisinau. Her research interests include memory and identity, decolonial approaches in Central Eastern Europe, urban anthropology, and grassroots urban protest movements. Her dissertation investigates Chisinau in the 1990s-2000s. It focuses on the transition from socialism to neoliberalism and its consequences for the diverse population of Chisinau and Moldova, more generally. Her research examines the transformation of value systems, memories, identities, sense of belonging and aspirations in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Stela SUHAN

Stela SUHAN

Stela is pursuing her doctoral thesis in anthropology at the University of Paris Nanterre. Her thesis topic focuses on memorial practices in the urban space of the city of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Since June 2021, she has been working within the Directorate of Libraries, Information, and Open Science (DiBISO) at the University of Paris Saclay. Her duties involve supporting good management of research data in the humanities and social sciences. She has research experience (from 2011 to 2017) from the Paris School of Economics, working on the project "The Distribution and Redistribution of Income and Wealth: a Global and Historical Perspective."

Dr. Maxime IZOULET

Maxime holds a PhD in economics from EHESS in Paris, which he obtained in 2020. His areas of research are economic history, accounting and money. He also applies his statistical skills to various research projects. He has 15 years' professional experience in the French administration, in the Ministry of National Education and Higher Education, as a public accountant and financial manager. His thesis will be published in January 2024 by Perspectives Libres.

Dr. Georgiana TURCULET

Georgiana holds a PhD from the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations of Central European University (CEU). During the completion of her doctoral thesis, titled ‘Movement as an Essential Interest. A case for Just Borders’, scholars at CEU, together with scholars in other local academic institutions, faced an unprecedented level of authoritarianism in Budapest, prompting the university to became the first university in asylum in contemporary Europe – CEU is currently located in Vienna (Austria) and New York (USA). During her doctoral program, Georgiana had been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship which has led her to spend one year at Koc University in Istanbul (Turkey), conducting research on the ‘Syrian refugee crisis’. Georgiana was also an Erasmus student at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University (France), a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (USA), a Visiting Academic at New York University (USA), a Global Teaching Fellow at Babes Bolyai University (UBB), in Cluj (Romania). She held, at last, a Post Doctoral research position at Copenhagen University (Denmark). Finally, Georgiana is the founder of the Experimental Philosophy Lab in Christiania.

The Board of Directors

Dr. Dorina ROSCA

Raisa DAMASCHIN

Dr. Dorin DUSCIAC

Associate Research Officers

Doina GUZUN

Associate Researchers

Dr. Elvira BARKHATOVA

Dr. Marian BOJINCA

Dr. Iulia CORNIGEANU

Margita ENGSTRÖM

Prof. Ulrike Schuerkens

Katerina FUKSOVA

Stela SUHAN

Dr. Maxime IZOULET

Dr. Georgiana TURCULET

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