Education

• 2019: Habilitation in Mathematics (ongoing review) at Graz University of Technology, Austria.


• October 2006-December 2010: Ph.D in Mathematics at Graz University
  of Technology, Austria. Advisor: Wolfgang Woess;
  
  
• October 2004-June 2006: M.Sc in Mathematics at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania; Master thesis: Stochastic models in finance.


• February-September 2005: Socrates-Erasmus exchange fellowship, Universita degli studi di Bari, Italy.


• October 2000-June 2004: B.Sc in Mathematics, major Mathematics-Informatics, at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.
  Bachelor thesis: Nonparametric statistical tests.

Professional Experience

• Since October 2019: Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria.


• March 2018-September 2019: Assistant professor, Graz University of Technology, Austria.


• January 2017-February 2018 : Maternity leave.


• April 2016-December 2016: Senior postdoctoral researcher, Graz University of Technology, Austria. Research supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship.


• January 2015-March 2016: Visiting assistant professor, Cornell University.


• 2014: Postdoctoral researcher TU Graz, Austria and scientific coordinator of the Doctoral Program DK Discrete Mathematics.


• 2013: Maternity leave.


• January 2011-December 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Graz University of Technology, Austria and scientific coordinator of the Doctoral Program DK Discrete Mathematics.


• February 2010-December 2010: Scientific Coordinator (together with Wilfried Huss) of the DK Discrete Mathematics: joint Doctoral Program of mathematicians at Technische Universität Graz, Karl Franzens Universität Graz and Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria.


• October 2006-December 2010: Research and Teaching Assistant (PhD student) at Graz University of Technology, Department of Mathematics C, Graz, Austria.

Research Grants

• January 2015-September 2016
  Random versus deterministic: random walks and rotor walks. FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship abroad, Project Number J 3575-N26;
  for visiting Lionel Levine (Cornell University, USA) from January 2015 - March 2016 and return phase --> senior Postdoc in Graz for 6 months (April- September) in 2016.


• January 2014-December 2015
  Grant WTZ (Wissenschaftlich-Technische Zusammenarbeit) for the research project Random Processes on Groups: Regularity and Phase Transitions. Cooperation Graz-Marseille, Program Amadee' 2014-2015; Project number FR11/2014. I am the leader of the austrian research team. Description of the project, and a very short informal beamer presentation.

Languages

• English (fluent)
• German (fluent)
• Italian (fluent)
• Romanian (mother tongue)

Various

• I am member of European Women in Mathematics since 2016.
• I am member of the Austrian Mathematical Society since 2009.
• My Erdös number is 3 thanks to Wolfgang Woess.