I am teaching and doing research at the University of Bucharest. I have a PhD in philosophy (Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Bucharest), and my research focus is on the history of philosophy and science; in particular, on the relations between philosophy, science, and religion in the early modern period. I am also interested in new scholarly approaches (Digital Humanities) and different ways of communication and dissemination of research results (Open Science). I published two monographs, "Cosmologia carteziană" ["Cartesian Cosmology"; in Romanian, 2021] and "Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: between metaphysics and physi…
I am teaching and doing research at the University of Bucharest. I have a PhD in philosophy (Radboud University Nijmegen and University of Bucharest), and my research focus is on the history of philosophy and science; in particular, on the relations between philosophy, science, and religion in the early modern period. I am also interested in new scholarly approaches (Digital Humanities) and different ways of communication and dissemination of research results (Open Science). I published two monographs, "Cosmologia carteziană" ["Cartesian Cosmology"; in Romanian, 2021] and "Descartes and Early French Cartesianism: between metaphysics and physics" (Zeta Books, 2017), co-edited the volumes "Recent Advances in Digital Humanities" (Peter Lang, 2022) and "Cartesian Empiricisms" (Springer, 2013), and collaborated to the production of two Open Access scholarly editions: “Antoine Le Grand and Jacques Rohault: Le Grand and his Annotations to Rohault’s Treatise on Natural Philosophy” (2022) and “Jacques Rohault, Preface to the Traité de Physique. A critical edition and commentary of four early modern versions of Rohault’s preface” (2021). I am book review editor at the "Centaurus," the Journal of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS).
Currently, I am member of the research team for the project "Avatar agency. Moral responsibility at the intersection of individual, collective, and artificial social entities in emergent avatar communities" (avataResponsibility; ERC funded project by the European Union ERC 101117761).
Recent research projects developed at the Humanities Division of the ICUB include "Making Modern Science: tracing the dynamics of a ‘Cartesian Newtonian textbook’ during the Scientific Revolution" (CartesianPhysics) and "Early Modern Cosmology Between “Mosaic Physics” and Mechanical Philosophy 1650-1713" (Cosmology).
