Academic experience

• since 2007: assistant professor, tenure track, Texas Tech University
• since 2007: director, Population Center, Texas Tech University
• (summer) 2006: Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
• 2004-2007: assistant professor (TT), Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida
• 2001-2004: research assistant, Pennsylvania State University
• 1998–1999: researcher, Center for Population Studies, National Academy of Romania

Education

• 2000- 2004: PhD, Sociology & Demography, Pennsylvania State University
• 1999-2000: Postgraduate studies in Demography, Charles University, Czech Republic
• 1999: MA in Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
• 1998: BA in Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
• 1997: MS in Statistics, University of Bucharest,  Romania
• 1996: BS in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania

Additional Training

• 2011: Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe
• 2010: University of Nebraska, Lincoln: NSF Career Grant Workshop
• 2004: UCLA/ SSRC International Migration Summer Institute
• 1999: ICPSR Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan
• 1997: International Summer School in Demographic Methods, Charles University, Prague

Grants and Fellowships

• 2008-2009: “US highly skilled”, Texas Tech University Enrichment Grant Competition, ($29,126)

• 2006: “Family formation and fertility in Hungary”, grant awarded by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany) (~$5000)

• 2005-2006: (with Laszlo Kulcsar) Echo Institute Grant, Budapest , Hungary ,

  website: http://www.k-state.edu/sasw/kpc/eedemo/

• 2003-2004: Population Reference Bureau Fellowship
• 2003-2004: Global Supplementary Grant, Open Society Foundation, New York
• 2001-2002: Hewlett Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
• 2000-2001: Graduate School Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University
• 2000-2001: Global Supplementary Grant, Open Society Foundation, New York
• 1999-2000: Soros Supplementary Grant, OSF, Budapest
  

Skills

• Computer: SAS, SPSS, HLM, TDA, HTML
• Languages: French (reading, writing); Spanish (reading, comprehension); Romanian (native speaker)
  

Other professional activities and appointments

• 2004-2009: book review editor for Balkan Academic News
• 2005-2007:co-organizer (with Barbara Kinsey) of Brown Bag Research Workshop, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Brevard
• 2002-2003: co-organizer, Demography Methodology Workshop, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University