About us
Lucrina Ștefănescu
Project leader, researcher
I have been working in research at the Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, since 2008. I have been studying for several years the environmental impact of mining, but I have been interested also in the way communities perceive this impact. I coordinated the research project “Environmental risks in mining areas - connecting expert assessments and social representations for a more efficient risk communication” and I have worked in various research projects on topics such as: vulnerable communities, risk assessment, environmental education and awareness. Fields of research interest: risk and disaster management, vulnerability analysis, risk communication, citizen science.
Filip Alexandrescu
senior researcher
I work as a scientific researcher II (second degree) at the Research Institute for the Quality of Life at the Romanian Academy. As a sociologist, I have been involved in interdisciplinary projects in the environmental sciences, both in international projects (consortium-based or individual, within EU’s framework program 7) and national (young research teams 2016 and 2021). My research interest is to link social processes with their effects on ecosystems, both urban and rural, and to understand the relationships between social practices and environmental knowledge. I have been involved in the project “Environmental risks in mining areas - connecting expert assessments and social representations for a more efficient risk communication” and have contributed to academic papers published in Land Use Policy and Sustainability and to a paper currently under review by Eurasian Geography and Economics. Fields of research interest: social construction of risks, knowledge and nonknowledge, citizen understanding of, and involvement in, science.
Gheorghe-Gavrilă Hognogi
Lecturer
I am working as lecturer at the Faculty of Geography, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. I am a photography and graphic enthusiast, a passion translated into cartographic materials (using software such as ArcGIS Pro, Corel Draw, Global Mapper, and Photoshop). Some of my most important research results include the writing of scientific articles and involvement in spatial planning, regional geography, tourism or biodiversity research projects. Skills and expertise: Geography, Regional and urban planning, GIS, RPAS, Digital era-governance (DEG), Extended Reality (XR)
Monika Meltzer
researcher
I graduated the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, then pursued a master’s and doctoral degree in environmental science at the Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering of the same university, where I also work at the moment. Due to my multidisciplinary training, I specialized in disaster risk communication, and in the research projects I have participated in since 2016, I also gained experience in environmental and disaster risk management. Fields of research interest: risk communication, risk and disaster management.
Zoltán Török
Associate Professor
Zoltán Török is an Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering. He is a member of the Research Institute for Sustainability and Disaster Management based on High Performance Computing (ISUMADECIP).
His scientific research activities focus on the management of chemical industrial risk, in particular the modeling and simulation of chemical accidents and gas dispersions in the atmosphere, quantitative risk analysis for land use planning, risks associated with the extractive mining industry, the use of drones in disaster management and environmental assessments.
In parallel with teaching and research activities, he has participated in training courses in the field of disaster management, organized by the European Civil Protection Mechanism and is a volunteer member of the APELL-TAST team, participating in European training exercises and other volunteering activities in the field.