I hold a PhD degree in Sociology from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. I am a researcher at the Centre for Population Studies, where, over the years, I have conducted research on various topics, such as transitions to parenthood, fertility intentions, nonstandard life courses (non-marital births at young ages), transition from cohabitation to marriage, marriage dissolution, intergenerational relationships within the family in general and in the specific context of transnational families. Between 2015 and 2017, I led the project “Intergenerational solidarity in the context of work migration abroad. The situation of elderly left at home” (PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-1377, UEFISCDI), which investigated how intergenerational solidarity operates when adult children live abroad, in relation to support and care needs of elderly parents that remained in Romania.

I am a social anthropologist and I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, as well as in SYNYO, GmbH, Vienna. For my dissertation at the Central European University, I have worked on transnational migration of Bulgarian Muslims to Spain and their everyday citizenship and relations with the state. In my postdoctoral studies, I continued working on transnational migration, care arrangements, ageing, and labor. Most recently, I have been a senior researcher in the PRECWORK project at Babeș-Bolyai University, studying the effects of re-industrialization in North-Western Romania and the transformations of labor of Romanian Roma in the region. As part of the SYNYO team, I currently work on the Horizon Europe project “ReIncluGen”, focused on conceptualizations and practices of gender empowerment and inclusion of migrant women.

I am a lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. I earned my doctorate in 2020 with a dissertation on transnational family relations between elderly non-migrant parents residing in Romania and their adult migrant children. My present teaching responsibilities include demography, statistics, and family sociology courses. As a researcher in demography, I carried out studies examining the regional and national disparities in population dynamics and access to health care in Romania. In the field of sociology of families I am particularly interested in investigating how shifting societal norms, such as family history, gender roles, migration patterns, and socioeconomic inequalities, influence intergenerational relationships within families and the well-being and life outcomes of family members across generations.

I am a PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. I graduated  from the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work with a specialization in  Human Resources and then followed the Master's degree in Advanced Sociological Research. Recently I worked  as a research assistant in the project "Precarious labor and peripheral  housing. The socio-economic practices of Romanian Roma in the context  of changing industrial relations and uneven territorial development". My research interests during the project  focused on how housing and living conditions in peripheral spaces  influence the educational path and labour market integration of the  respondents.
In  the framework of my PhD I propose to analyze elderly members remaining  in Romania from transnational families in view of the increase of care  services in the country, respectively female persons involved in home care of the elderly from Central and  Western Europe.