RESEARCH JOBS

2024
Research Assistant in Legal NLP*
Fine-tuned a LegalBERT classifier to detect illegal consent banners.
Utrecht University
2023–2024
Research Intern for Vision & Language Models*
Active/passive and ditransitive sentences for the VALSE benchmark.
Utrecht University
Research Assistant in Forensic NLP
Author identification pipeline from scratch.
Leiden University
Visiting Researcher*
Created a new dataset of Romanian nominal compounds. Crowdsourcing.
University of Sheffield
2023
Research Assistant in Computational Semantics
Checked automatic DRT & CCG discourse annotations.
Utrecht University
Teaching Assistant
Course on A.I. & psycholinguistics. Supervised 30 NLP research proposals.
Utrecht University
2021–2022
Research Contributor
Co-wrote 'A Romanian Corpus Annotated with Verbal Multiword Expressions'.
The Romanian Academy

RESEARCH GRANTS*

2023
Short-Term Scientific Mission Research Grant
UniDive, University of Sheffield

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS*

2024
Humanities Conference Grant Award
Utrecht University
2023
Bright Minds Fellowship*
Utrecht University
2022
Humanities Conference Grant Award
Utrecht University
Craving Science? Discover Conferences! Grant
Utrecht University
Bright Minds Fellowship*
Utrecht University
2021
Award for Scientific Excellence
University of Bucharest

SCHOLARSHIPS

2025
2nd UniDive Training School
UniDive
2024
First-Generation Fund
Utrecht University
2021-2023
Scholarships to attend IWL Harvard 2021, ESSLLI, MLWS-CV 2022, the "Logic and Transdisciplinarity" Research School, the Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data, ALPS 2023
2019–2022
First Merit Scholarship
University of Bucharest

SUMMER SCHOOLS

2025
M2L
University of Split
LxMLS
University of Lisbon
LOT Summer School
University of Antwerp
2023
ESSLLI
University of Ljubljana
5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (NexusLinguarum)
University of Zagreb
EMLAR
Utrecht University
ALPS Winter School (Advanced Language Processing)
LOT Winter School
University of Amsterdam
2022
ESSLLI
National University of Ireland Galway
Machine Learning Winter School on Computer Vision (MLWS-CV)
Duke University
"Logic and Transdisciplinarity" Research School
Graduate Level Programme
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques
EMLAR
Utrecht University · Online
Languages in Europe and their Diachronies School
CIVIS Alliance
2021
Institute for World Literature
Graduate Level Programme
Harvard University

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES

2024
Lingathon (funded by LOT)
Co-organizer; organized the first national linguistics hackathon for interdisciplinary collaboration among RMA/PhD students.
Netherlands National Graduate School of Linguistics
2023
UtrechtInc – Ready to Start
Participant in academic entrepreneurship programme; developed a start-up concept for customizable educational AI tutors.
Utrecht University
Linguistics Association Workshop
Delivered a workshop advising young researchers on research careers and applications.
University of Bucharest
2022
AFIST Mentorship Programme
Completed mentorship focused on research career planning and technical skill development.
Association for Women in Engineering, Science and Technology
2020
Capacitate+
Co-founded an online learning platform supporting ~300 students preparing for national exams during the pandemic; developed lessons and curriculum.
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Leaders Explore
2019
Design thinking competitions
Designed a youth culture hub proposal and won a design-thinking competition addressing urban mobility challenges.
Builders of the Future (Creatori de Viitor)