Lucian-Mircea Mureșan
President
Lucian-Mircea Mureșan is the President and founding member of the “ISTROS” Society for Historical Sciences, a Romanian NGO that promotes the history and cultural heritage of the Central – Eastern European region within academia and among the general public. Lucian is a Roman historian and archaeologist, whose research focuses upon the relations between Barbaricum and the Roman world along the Danubian Roman frontier. With degrees in both Classical Antiquity and Jurisprudence, his more recent studies are related to ancient Roman law, especially in the former Empire’s provinces in Central and Eastern Europe.
Ioana Mureșan
Vice President
Dr. Ioana Mureșan, the Vice President and founding member of “ISTROS”, is a researcher and archaeologist studying the development of Roman life in the Danubian provinces. Her main research efforts are in the field of funerary art and symbolism, the habits and the legal regulations related to funerary practice of the inhabitants of the Roman world on the Middle and Lower Danube region. Moreover, she has been actively interested in the history and traditions of the South-Eastern European countries, in both ancient and modern times.
Florin-Ovidiu Botiș
Secretary
Florin Ovidiu Botiș, the Secretary and founding member of “ISTROS”, is a Ph.D. Student at “Babeș-Bolyai” University from Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of History and Philosophy, and associate researcher at the Institute of Classical Studies of the same university. His doctoral research is focusing on the Roman economy and pottery production of the ancient Istros (Constanța County). He is an archaeologist, a member of the international association Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores, and a member of the team that carries out the archaeological research from the praetorium consularis from Apulum (Dacia). His main research topics are the Roman provincial economy and material culture with a specific focus on pottery production, consumption, and distribution in the Middle and Lower Danube provinces and West-Pontic area.
Iulia-Alexandra Iliescu
Censor
Iulia-Alexandra Iliescu is one of the founding members of “ISTROS” and Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Archaeology and History of Art of the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, and PhD Student within the same institution, with research underway regarding the Late Roman economy of ancient Istros (Constanța County). She is also part of the University of Bucharest team that carries out the archaeological research in Istros, on the Acropolis Centre-South Sector, and in the Beidaud Archaeological Microzone. Her research interests include Roman archaeology, Late Roman economy, and pottery production in the West-Pontic area.
Viorel-Ștefan Georgescu
Viorel-Ștefan Georgescu is an archaeologist and researcher at the Museum of National History and Archaeology in Constanța. With a vast experience in both rescue and research archaeology, his field work has taken him in all corners of the country. He holds a PhD defended at the West University of Timișoara, with a thesis on lighting objects discovered at Tomis (1st-3rd centuries AD).
Bianca Elena Grigoraș
Dr. Bianca Elena Grigoraș has graduated from the Faculty of History at the „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași and now works at the National Heritage Institute in Bucharest. She studies the ancient storage systems and she is a specialist in Roman pottery, a field for which she has published several papers regarding the artifacts discovered within the ancient sites of Dinogetia and Tropaeum Traiani (Romania) or Pompeiopolis (Turkey).
Victor Bunoiu
Dr. Victor Bunoiu is currently a researcher at the Timișoara Chapter of the Romanian Academy. He also has made considerable efforts in preserving and protecting the mobile and immobile archaeological heritage of Timiș County while being an advisor for the Timiș County Direction for Culture. During this time, he has promoted the local heritage in a series of lectures open to the public, and continued in the same manner at the Iron Gates Region Museum in Drobeta Turnu Severin. He has graduated from the West University of Timișoara and holds a PhD obtained at the same institution, with a thesis titled The economic life in military vici settlements from South-Carpathian Dacia in the 2nd-3rd centuries A.D.
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