Filip Alexandrescu

Personal Information

First name(s) / Surname(s) - Filip Mihai Alexandrescu

Address (Germany)            - Merseburger Straße 17, 04229 Leipzig, Germany

Address (Romania, for business trips) -  Str. Apele Vii Nr. 2A, bl. 312, Sc. 1, apt. 9, Bucharest 062323 , Romania

Phone  - Mobile: +40-727 552 168

E-mail - filip.alexandrescu@ufz.de

Nationality - Romanian

Date of birth - 07.09.1976

Gender - Male

Work Experience

Dates - Since August 2011

Occupation or position held - Scientific researcher

Main activities and responsibilities :

- Organizing, carrying out and analyzing sociological research for the TIMBRE research project (Tailored Improvement of Brownfield Regeneration in Europe) at the project's test site in Hunedoara, Romania as well as at the Polish and Czech research sites

- Liaison with the Romanian partners of the TIMBRE project

Name and address of employer : Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany

Type of business or sector - Sociological research

Dates - Since February 2008

Occupation or position held - Scientific researcher

Main activities and responsibilities :

- Developing the research design and preliminary data collection for the project "Green Consumption and the Quality of Life in Romania and Belarus" (2010)

- Researching the literature and developing the theoretical framework for the project "Social Innovation and Ecological Modernization" (2009)

- Preparing, organizing and re-codifying databases for the project "Romanian Sociological Output Since 1944" (2008)

Name and address of employer : Research Institute for the Quality of Life, Str. 13 Septembrie nr. 13, sector 5, Bucharest, postal code 050718.

Type of business or sector - Sociological research

Dates - February 2010 - April 2010

Occupation or position held - Invited lecturer in sociology at the University of Bucharest

Main activities and responsibilities :

- Co-taught a course on "Environmental Problems and Risks of Social Development" with prof. Adrian Dan

- assignments included delivering lectures, leading discussions, devising and grading assignments (both weekly and end-of-term).

Name and address of employer : University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Str. Schitu Măgureanu Nr. 9, Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania [I had no formal employment relationship with the University of Bucharest].

Type of business or sector - University teaching

Dates - September 2003 - August 2006 & September 2008 - April 2009

Occupation or position held - Teaching assistant at the University of Toronto

Main activities and responsibilities :

- Preparing and delivering tutorials, grading written examinations and essays, invigilating examinations and holding office hours for nine courses, including "Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development", "Introduction to Social Research" and "History of Social Theory".

Name and address of employer : University of Toronto, Department of Sociology, 725 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2J4, Canada

Type of business or sector - University teaching

Dates - September 2003 - August 2006

Occupation or position held - Research assistant at the University of Toronto

Main activities and responsibilities :

- Descriptive and inferential statistics (SPSS) on the ethnic and gender composition of immigrants to Canada based on the 1996 and 2001 censuses,

- Extensive literature review and comparative analysis of the literature on neighbourhood effects on children and youth. This work resulted in a research report and a poster for the Population, Work and Family Policy Research Collaboration Symposium, both of which are co-authored with Professor Charles Jones.

Name and address of employer : University of Toronto, Department of Sociology, 725 Spadina Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2J4, Canada.

Type of business or sector - Sociological research

Dates - August 2002 - August 2003

Occupation or position held - Junior expert in the Ministry of Labour, Social Solidarity and Family

Main activities and responsibilities :

- Monitoring the implementation of the government's Social Programme 2002 - 2003; developing and formulating social policy proposals; assessing the effectiveness of existing policies in the area of social protection and proposing solutions for their improvement. 

Name and address of employer : Government of Romania, Social Policy Department and Ministry of Labour, Social Solidarity and Family, Unit for Family Policies, B-dul Magheru nr. 6 - 8, Et. 5, Sector 1.

Type of business or sector - Social policy

Education and Training

Dates - September 2003 - November 2011

Title of qualification awarded - Doctor of philosophy (degree awarded on March 15, 2012).

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered - Development sociology (displacement and resettlement) and sociological theory

Name and type of organisation providing education and training - University of Toronto, Department of Sociology, Toronto, Canada.

Level in national or international classification - Level 6

Dates - September 2000  - June 2002

Title of qualification awarded - Master of Arts

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered - Environmental sociology, sociological theory

Name and type of organisation providing education and training - University of Western Ontario, Department of Sociology, London, Canada.

Level in national or international classification - Level 5

Dates - October 1995 - July 1999

Title of qualification awarded - Bachelor of Arts

Principal subjects/occupational skills covered - Political sociology, sociological theory, and statistics

Name and type of organisation providing education and training - University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work.

Level in national or international classification - Level 5

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Mother tongue(s) - Romanian

  

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English - Test of English as a Foreign Language (computer-based), TOEFL score 250 (December 1998). 

German - Deutsches Sprachdiplom Stufe II der Kultusministerkonferenz (October 1995)

[1]Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Additional information

Publications

Thompson ISI:

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. 2009. "Not As Natural As It Seems: The Social History of the Environment in American Sociology." History of the Human Sciences 22(5): 47 - 80.

Other publications in journals:

- Titarenko, Larissa, Filip Alexandrescu, Monica Marin. (2012) ‘The Avatars of Green Consumption in Romania and Belarus: Risk Avoidance or Lifestyle Choice?', Romanian Sociology X(1): 65 - 88.

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. (2011) ‘Gold and Displacement in Eastern Europe: Risks and Uncertainty at Roşia Montană', Romanian Review of Sociology XXII (1-2): 78 - 107.

- Nistor, Laura and Filip M. Alexandrescu (2011) ‘Four Decades of Environmental Sociology Guest Editors' Foreword', International Review of Social Research 1(3): 1 - 10.

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. (2011) ‘A Brief Report on a Major International Sociological Conference', Romanian Review of Sociology XXII (3-4): 2 - 11.

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. (2008) "Environmental sociology as Creative Marginality: A Survey of its Theories from the ‘Limits to Growth' to the ‘Risk Society'" (in Romanian), Romanian Sociology VI (3 - 4): 74 - 86.

- Alexandrescu, Filip (2007) ‘Review of Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America', edited by L. North, T. Clark and V. Patrony. Toronto, Between the Lines 2006, pp 288', Critical Sociology 33(3): 593 - 595.

Chapters in books:

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. (2011) ‘The Social Role of Cooperatives in the Development Regions Bucharest-Ilfov and South East' [in Romanian], in S. Stănescu, S. Cace and F. Alexandrescu (editors) Between Opportunities and Risks: Social Economy Enterprises in the Development Regions Bucharest-Ilfov and South East, pp. 150 - 176. Bucharest: Expert.

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. (2007) ‘Social Development and Ecological Risks' [in Romanian], în C. Zamfir şi S. Stănescu (coord) The Encyclopedia of Social Development, pp. 178 - 185. Iași: Polirom.

Forthcoming publications:

 - Alexandrescu, Filip M. (2013) ‘The Hidden Curse of Transylvanian Gold: The Pathological Effects of Displacement at Roşia Montană',accepted for publication in M. Cernea and N. Smelser (eds.) Sociological Knowledge and Development Pathologies.

- Alexandrescu, Filip M. ‘Durkheim and the Environment: Were Social and Non-social Facts Always at Odds in American Sociology?' Under review with History of the Human Sciences.

- Bleicher, Alena, Filip Alexandrescu and Vivien Weiss. ‘Transdisciplinarity in Practice: The Emergence and Management of Dissonances in Collaborative Research Projects.' At the proofreading stage, to be submitted very soon to Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.

Conference Presentations

- "Knowledge and Decision Making in Brownfield Revitalization: Cross-cultural Variations within Eastern Europe" Alena Bleicher, Filip M. Alexandrescu and Matthias Gross. EUROSOIL 2012 conference of the European Confederation of Soil Science Societies, Bari, Italia (July 2012).

- "Social facts and environmental facts: a reconsideration of Durkheim's legacy in American sociology" , Filip M. Alexandrescu. The First International Conference of the Society of Sociologists from Romania, Cluj Napoca, Romanian (December 2010).

- "Gold and Displacement in Eastern Europe: Struggling with Uncertainty at Roşia Montană", Filip M. Alexandrescu. Annual meeting of theInternational Metropolis Project, The Hague, the Netherlands (October 2010).

- "Struggling with uncertainty: The challenges of displacement at Roşia Montanǎ, Romania", Filip M. Alexandrescu. Annual meeting of theSociety for Applied Anthropology. Memphis, Tennessee, USA (March 2008).

Fellowships and Scholarships

- "Ecological restoration and ideological constructions in resource conflicts: The case of Roşia Montană, Romania", Filip M. Alexandrescu.German Environmental Sociology Summit 007: International and Interdisciplinary Challenges. University of Lüneburg, Germany (November 2007).

- Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant, University of Toronto, Canada (2009 - 2010).

- Scholarship Exchange Program with CEE countries, German Environmental Foundation (DBU) (2007 - 2008).  

- Sir Val Duncan Travel Grant, University of Toronto, Canada (2007).

- Muriel Bissell Fund Award, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada (2006).

- School of Graduate Studies Research Travel Grant, University of Toronto, Canada (2006).

- Open Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada (2003 - 2007).

Social Skills and Competences

- Ability to carry out sociological work in  interdisciplinary research environments, through employment in a EU FP7 project on changing land uses / brownfield regeneration    

- Ability to adapt to multi-cultural environments - through undergraduate and graduate studies in Germany (1 term) and Canada (12 terms) and participation in an EU FP7 project involving 15 partners from nine countries.