Academy of Economic StudiesEconomic Studies, Bucharest, PhD Economics (1998); University of Bucharest, PhD Sociology (2000); Indiana University Bloomington, PhD (ABD) Political Science (2002);
Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; associate professor, National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest;
Member of the East-European Scholars International Relation Theory Group (1999-2001); member of: International Economics and Philosophy Society, International Studies Association and American Political Science Association; member of editorial boards: Romanian Journal of Politicians and Society, Polis, The Romanian Journal of Political Science.