The team combines 3 experienced scholars, 2 researchers, and 3 doctoral students. The personal expertise of each nominated member of the team fits to the project’s goal and activities:
Bogdan MURGESCU (the project coordinator) is a professor of economic and social history at the Faculty of History and vice-rector of the University of Bucharest. Member of Academia Europaea since 2020, he has also been president of the National Council for Higher Education Statistics and Forecast (CNSPIS) (2016-2021).
Matei GHEBOIANU is an associate professor and the dean of the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest. He has a Ph.D. in history, having graduated at the University of Bucharest in 2013.His main research fields are the Romanian higher education during communism and mass-media in post-communism. The last book published is PRESA LIBERĂ !? 1989-1992. Presa în România post-comunistă, Cetate de Scaun Publishing House, 2015.
Valentin MAIER is a scientific researcher at the Museum of the University of Bucharest and, in 2021 has completed his postdoctoral research at the ISDS-UB. The main research topics are the history of higher education, economic history and geography, industrialization, and the history of oil.
Gabriela BILIGA-NISIPEANU has a Ph.D in history, on the topic of the impact of the Erasmus Programme on Romanian students under the supervision of Professor Bogdan Murgescu. She was enrolled on the Doctor Europaeus Route. Her research interest includes the history of higher education, student mobility, European educational policy, European educational programs, and comparative education.
Stefan-Marius DEACONU has a Ph.D. in history at the University of Bucharest, on the topic of the social dimension of higher education in Romania (1968-1989). He currently works at the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI). His research interests focus on the history of higher education (in Romania) and communism in Eastern Europe.
Ionuț-Mircea MARCU is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Bucharest and École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales Paris, with a thesis on history-writing in Romania from 1980 to 2000. His research interests focus on the history of historiography, sociology of knowledge-production in socialist and post-socialist contexts, and intellectual history.
Răzvan BĂDĂU is a Ph.D. student in history at the University of Bucharest. He currently works in education, collaborates with Teach for Romania, and has been a preceptor since 2020. His research interests focus on the history of tertiary education, post-communism, and European politics.
Alex Liță is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Babeș-Bolyai University, with a thesis that explores the connection between commuting, labor, and local development in Cluj Metropolitan Area. Since 2019, he has been working on several research projects with Dalhousie University on the topics of refugees and labor migration. His research interests gravitate around labor issues, including industrial relations, labor migration, labor and local development/urbanization, education, and access to the labor market.