The Team

Director,
Associate Professor Mihaela Daciana NATEA, PhD
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise
EU foreign policy, US foreign policy, IP protection system, Communication and disinformation

Vice director – Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Hedi SAIDI, PhD
Catholic University of Lille, France Sfax University, Tunisia, Constantina University Algeria,
Chevalier of the Academic Palms (class of July 14, 2013)

Field of expertise contemporary societies of the Maghreb; history of multicultural societies; decolonization and combating radicalism and jihadist disinformation.

Vice director
Veronica Zaharagiu, PhD
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise implementation of European mobility programs, literary studies

EU security working group

Associate Professor Gabriela GOUDENHOOFT, PhD
University of Oradea, Romania

Field of expertise Human Rights, Communication and Journalism; EU and Security policies

Lecturer Cristina MORARI, PhD
State University of Moldova, Republic of Moldova

Field of expertise EU policies EU neighborhood policy in the Eastern Partnership, European security, European enlargement process and US foreign policy.

Lecturer Mariami KHATIASHVILI, PhD
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Field of expertise public diplomacy, disinformation studies and strategic communication in terms of Georgia’s EU-Atlantic integration; U.S. public diplomacy objectives in Georgia

Doru Constantin TOCILA, PhD
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise special operations’ range of lethal and nonlethal activities, studies regarding employment of the Special Operations Forces (SOF), NATO- European Union cooperation on security

Maria COSTEA, PhD
Romanian Academy’s “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute of Social Sciences and the Humanities in Targu-Mureş), Romania

Field of expertise history of international relations, European foreign policy, and multicultural communities

National and EU Policies Working Group

Lecturer Lucian SACALEAN, PhD
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise
Ethnic minorities in Romania and the UE policies; communication and political sciences

Associate Professor Felix HODOS, PhD
“1st of December 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania

Field of expertise
Personal Data Protection, EU law, Communication law

Associate Professor Nicolae PLOESTEANU, PhD
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise
Data Protection, Constitutional law, International law

Multicultural strategic communication working group

Lecturer LAKO Cristian, PhD
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise online communication, language and culture specific communication, intercultural interactions in multilingual geographic areas

Cristian MAGURA, PhD student
University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France

Field of expertise Communication and information sciences

Natalia BARLADEANU, PhD student
George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures (UMPhST), Romania

Field of expertise EU policies in the Eastern neighborhood