Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. Director of the Department of International Relations, Security Studies and Public Policies, University of Bucharest. MA in European studies and international relations, Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Nice (1996). SJD, Comparative Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, Babeş – Bolyai University of Cluj (2002). Representative of the University of Bucharest team part of the European research network Observatory on Local Autonomy, coordinated by the Université de Lille (2015 -). Member of the Academic Curriculum Group (2017 – 2018; 2021 -); Executive Committee (2015 – 2020) of the E.MA – European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization of the Global Campus of Human Rights, Venice. Representative of the University of Bucharest in the project CIII-PL-0702-06-1718 – Ethics and Politics in the European Context, part of the CEEPUS III network, coordinated by The Catholic University John Paul II of Lublin; 12 universities from Central and Eastern Europe are part of this network (2012 -). Visiting Professor: Cultural Diplomacy Institute, Berlin (2021); University Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski of Warsaw (2021); Catholic University of Ruzomberok (2021); Global Campus of Human Rights, Venice (2019, 2020, 2021); University of Genoa (2019); The Catholic University John Paul II of Lublin (2019); Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna (2017, 2019); National Tchengchi University, Taiwan (2016); European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization, Venice (2016, 2017, 2018); University Matej Bel of Banska Bystrica (2016); Universitá degli Studi Firenze (2015); Institut für Sozialethik, Universität Wien (2015); Institute of Political Science, University of Wroclaw (2014, 2017); Trnava University (2014); Umea University (2013); Charles University of Prague (2013); University of Szeged (2012); The Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (2011); Mykolo Romerio Universitetas, Vilnius (2010); National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2000). Research associate of: CEVIPOL/Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles (2020 – ); Fridtjof Nansen Institute – Fridtjof Nansen Stiftelsen på Polhøgda – Norvegia, UEFISCDI/EEA Grants, EEA-RO-NO2018-0532 (2020 -); European Commission/Romanian Center for European Policies (2019); Konrad Adenauer Stiftung/Wilfried Martens for European Studies in the framework of the project European perceptions in Romania (2015); Institut für Rechtsphilosophie, Religions-und Kulturrecht, Universität Wien (2006 – 2008); The European Institute of Romania, in the framework of Programme Accession Impact Studies – PAIS 3 (2005);  The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Religious Studies towards EU Integration, a programme of New Europe College – Bucharest  (2004); TMC Asser Institut, Den Haag (2002). He published 22 books as author and co-author. Latest books: Confruntând zilnic pandemia. Reflecţii despre transformarea sistemului politic într-o perioadă de excepţie (Fighting daily with the pandemics. Reflections about the transformation of the political system in a period of exception), Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2021; Structuring and destructuring democracy. The keywords that make a polity, Belianum. Matej Bel University Press, 2021.