December 2024 – Present: Principal Investigator of ERC-funded project GreenFrontier: Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries, at Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University.
February – November 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Horizon Europe-funded project wildE-Climate Smart Rewilding, at Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University.
August 2023 – present: Senior Researcher in the NextGenerationEU-funded project Ecojust: Doing Environmental (In)Justice. A Theory in Praxis, at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.
April 2021 – July 2023: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the ESRC-funded project Beastly Business: Examining the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Europe, at Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.
August 2019 – August 2020: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ERC-funded project BIOSEC: Biodiversity and Security. Understanding Environmental Crime, Illegal Wildlife Trade and Threat Finance. at Department of Politics, University of Sheffield.
April – June 2018: Visiting Researcher, Department of Social Sciences – Sociology of Development and Change Group, Wageningen University.
June 2016 – June 2017: Research Assistant in the Romanian Mountain Commons Project, at the Institute of Sociology of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
Education
November 2015 – November 2018: Doctoral Studies at IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy. Doctoral degree obtained in 2019.
July 2022 – Summer Course in the Environmental Law of the European Union, Academy of European Law, Department of LAW, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
June 2017 – Summer School in Political Ecology, Department of Social Sciences, at Wageningen University.
2012-2014 – Master in Sociology and Social Anthropology, specialisation in Global Studies, at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. MA Degree obtained in June 2014.
2009 – 2012 – Bachelor in Sociology, at the Department of Sociology of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. BA Degree obtained in June 2012.
2009 – 2012 – Bachelor in History, specialisation in Contemporary History, at Department of History and Philosophy of Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. BA Degree obtained in 2013.
George Iordachescu 