Bucharest, Ph.D in History; Professor at the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration, Romanian Academy
Member of the Collegium of The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS). Books: România de la comunism la capitalism, 1989-2004. Sistemul politic/Romania from Communism to Capitalism 1989-2004. Political System, Tritonic, Bucharest, 2006; Provocări epistemologice ale totalitarismului. O metodologie a studiului regimurilor comuniste/ Epistemological challenges of totalitarianism. A methodology for studying communist regimes (forthcoming, Bucharest, Romanian Academy, 2013).