Our Team
Prof. dr. Gabriela CIOT
DIRECTOR OF THE DOCTORAL "International Relations and European Studies"
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest: decision-making, idiosyncrasies, international and European negotiations, cultural diplomacy
Institutional affiliation: Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies
Email: melania.ciot@ubbcluj.ro
- Link Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZyctasEAAAAJ&hl=ro
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| Coordinator | Academic year | No. of enrolled doctoral students | Total number of doctoral students |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Melania-Gabriela Ciot | 2021-2022 | 2 | 6 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Melania-Gabriela Ciot | 2022-2023 | 3 | 7 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Melania-Gabriela Ciot | 2023-2024 | 3 | 8 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Melania-Gabriela Ciot | 2024-2025 | 2 | 10 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Melania-Gabriela Ciot | 2025-2026 | 3 | 8 |
Assoc. prof. dr. Adrian Corpădean
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest: the history of European integration, the integration of Central-Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, European communication, European project management, the multiannual planning framework of the European Union
Institutional affiliation: Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies
Email: adrian.corpadean@ubbcluj.ro
CV En – Conf. univ. dr. Adrian Corpădean
CV Fr – Conf. univ. dr. Adrian Corpădean
| Coordinator | Academic year | No. of enrolled doctoral students | Total number of doctoral students |
| conf. univ. dr. abil. Adrian-Gabriel Corpădean | 2023-2024 | 8 | 8 |
| conf. univ. dr. abil. Adrian-Gabriel Corpădean | 2024-2025 | 3 | 9 |
| conf. univ. dr. abil. Adrian-Gabriel Corpădean | 2025-2026 | 1 | 11 |
Prof. dr. Valentin Naumescu
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest: International relations and European studies; Foreign policy and diplomacy; Global and regional security;
Strategic policies, great powers, balance of power; Transatlantic relations; Eastern Neighborhood of the European Union.
Institutional affiliation: Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies
Domain: International relations and European studies
Email: valentin.naumescu@ubbcluj.ro
| Coordinator | Academic year | No. of enrolled doctoral students | Total number of doctoral students |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Valentin Naumescu | 2021-2022 | 3 | 7 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Valentin Naumescu | 2022-2023 | 2 | 6 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Valentin Naumescu | 2023-2024 | 3 | 8 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Valentin Naumescu | 2024-2025 | 2 | 9 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Valentin Naumescu | 2025-2026 | 3 | 8 |
Prof. dr. Mircea Brie
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest: International relations and European studies; European borders. Border space in international relations; The process of European integration; European Union institutions and policies; European borders. Border space in international relations; European, national, regional and local identity; Issues of national minorities and social security;
Institutional affiliation: Oradea University
Domain: International relations and European studies
Email: mirceabrie@gmail.com
| Coordinator | Academic year | No. of enrolled doctoral students | Total number of doctoral students |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Mircea Brie | 2021-2022 | 2 | 15 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Mircea Brie | 2022-2023 | 1 | 11 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Mircea Brie | 2023-2024 | 1 | 12 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Mircea Brie | 2024-2025 | 3 | 13 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Mircea Brie | 2025-2026 | 2 | 8 |
Assoc. prof. dr. LAURA-MARIA HERȚA
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest:
Analysis of Conflicts and Interventions of Regional and International Organizations; Conflict Resolution and post-Conflict Peacebuilding; Social constructivist Interpretations of Security, Armed Conflicts, Peace and International Mediation; Europeanization and the Revisiting of the European Union’s Enlargement Policy; The Role of Civil Society in Processes of Europeanization in the Western Balkans Countries, in Ukraine, and in the Republic of Moldova
Institutional affiliation: Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Facultatea de Studii Europene
Assoc. prof. dr. ANA-GABRIELA PANTEA
| Coordinator | Academic year | No. of enrolled doctoral students | Total number of doctoral students |
| conf. univ. dr. abil. Ana-Gabriela Pantea | 2025-2026 | 2 | 2 |
Prof. dr. Sergiu Mișcoiu
Field of doctoral supervision: Political Science
Areas of interest: Political science; Theories of international relations; Theories of political ideologies; Populism, extremism, radicalism, nationalism; Dynamics of contemporary political systems; Discourse theories with applications in political science.
Institutional affiliation: Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies
Email: miscoiu.sergiu@ubbcluj.ro
| Coordinator | Academic year | No. of enrolled doctoral students | Total number of doctoral students |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Sergiu Mișcoiu | 2021-2022 | 3 | 9 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Sergiu Mișcoiu | 2022-2023 | 6 | 12 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Sergiu Mișcoiu | 2023-2024 | 1 | 12 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Sergiu Mișcoiu | 2024-2025 | 1 | 12 |
| prof. univ. dr. abil. Sergiu Mișcoiu | 2025-2026 | 3 | 11 |
Prof. dr. Vasile Pușcaș
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest: international relations, history of international relations, international and European negotiations, international politics, European integration, cultural diplomacy, international management
Institutional affiliation: Babes-Bolyai University, Gh. Baritiu Institute of History of the Romanian Academy
Email: vasilepuscas2007@yahoo.com
Prof. dr. Nicolae Păun
Field of doctoral supervision: International relations and European studies
Areas of interest: Institutional and administrative reform of the European Union; Modeling the New Europe; The evolution of economic life. Contemporary economic systems; The history of European integration.
Email: nicolae.paun@ubbcluj.ro
Prof. dr. Ovidiu Pecican
Field of doctoral supervision: History
Areas of interest:
Institutional affiliation: Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies
Email: coriolan.pecican@ubbcluj.ro
Prof. dr. Enikö Vincze
Field of doctoral supervision: Sociology
Areas of interest: Sociology (socio-cultural anthropology, gender studies, Romani studies); Anthropology of human rights;
Social exclusion, discrimination, racism; Gender, nation, nationalism; Socio-economic condition of ethnic Roma in Europe and policies for Roma; Gender inequalities, feminism and gender policies in the EU; Social segregation and urban order
Institutional affiliation: Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
Email: eniko.vincze@ubbcluj.ro