Mihaela Simionescu

Biography

Mihaela Simionescu is Full Professor at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Administration and Business (since 2023), Senior Researcher with the first degree at the Institute for Economic Forecasting of the Romanian Academy, Director of Centre for Migration Studies in Prague Business School, Doctor in Cybernetics and Statistics (2013) and habilitated Doctor in Economics (2016), PhD Supervisor in Economics at the School of Advanced Studies (Romanian Academy), Associate Researcher at Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement, Center for Macroeconomic Modelling of Romanian Academy, fellow at Global Labour Organization (GLO) and Member in the National Council for Attesting Titles, Diplomas and Certificates from Romania, Member in the Scientific Council of the "Costin C. Kiriţescu" National Institute for Economic Research (INCE), Romanian Academy, Bucharest (elected in 2022), and a Member of the committee for RSAI Dissertation Award (2021-2023).

Mihaela Simionescu was previously Full Professor and Principal Investigator at University of Social Sciences, Lodz (Poland) (2019-2021), Visiting Professor at Social Innovations Doctoral School from Mykolas Romeris University of Vilnius (Lithuania), teaching lectures of Statistical Analysis and Econometrics for Scientific Research (2016, 2018), Associate Professor at Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics (2011-2014, 2022), Visiting Researcher at Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies in Rome (Italy) (2017, 2018) and Centre of Sociological Research (Ukraine) (2019), Visiting Professor at Paneuropean University from Slovakia, Rzeszów University of Technology from Poland, North-Caucasus Federal University from Russia, and a Visiting Researcher at the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch- Institute for Economic and Social Research ”Gherghe Zane” (2015).

Prizes

• Researcher ranked in the first 1% of the most influential researchers in the world, according to the database established on the basis of the 2022 and 2023 citations in Scopus (database published in October 2023 and October 2024 by Stanford University in the USA for the top 2% most influential researchers in the world from all fields)
https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6

• Prize of the Romanian Academy Nicolae Georgescu-Roegen for 2015 for the book Competitiveness- Regional Competitiveness in Romania

• Prize of Competitiveness Initiative in 2018 for academic research in competitiveness

• Prize for excellence in economic research offered by Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement in 2019 (Czech Republic)

• Prize Young Researchers in Science and Engineering (the second place) in 2021 at the contest organized by the City Hall of Cluj-Napoca in partnership with Prof. Dr. Rada Mihalcea (honorary citizen of Cluj-Napoca since 2014, Professor at University of Michigan)

• Prize The associate professor of 2021 offered by the University of Bucharest

• Prize of the Spanish Association of University Teachers of Mathematics for Business and Economics for coordinating the doctoral student Javier Cifuentes-Faura and co-authoring the article: Effect of Transparency on Municipal Revenues and Expenditures in Spain, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 2022

• UEFISCDI prizes for 14 papers that were published in prestigious WoS journals (2016-2021).

• Finalist Researcher at Romanian Research Gala in 2023;

• Finalist Research at Science, She Says! Award, a prize for young foreign female researchers outstanding in scientific activity organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, 2023.