Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Human geography
2. Tourism geography

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

The tourism potential of the Republic of Moldova and the problems of its use, 1988

Links to:

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years:

1. Prediction model on asbestos use as a risk factor for the respiratory system cancer in communities from northern Romania. Authors: Elena Matei, Daniel Luches, Vasile Efros, Despina Saghin
2. Perception of Rural Tourism From the Perspective of Tourists. Case study Mountain area of Suceava County  LD Diacon, V Efros, C Ciubotaru EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 1381
3. THE EVOLUTION OF TERRITORIAL CONTRASTS IN THE PERIOD 1775-1918, BETWEEN THE HISTORICAL BUCOVINA AND THE EXTRABUCOVINEAN TERRITORY. C Ciubotaru, V Efros, LD Diacon Acta Geobalcanica 8 (1)
4. Geo-Cultural Landscape–Landmark of Sustainable Development of the Rural Area of Bucovina V Chiriţă, D Matei, V Efros Carpathian J. Earth Environ. Sci 10, 255-264
5. Housing affordability in the context of covid-19 pandemic–new challenges for Romania LM Lăzărescu, DL Diacon, V Efros, VD Horodnic LUMEN Proceedings 14, 294-311
6. Assessment of land use changes and landscape fragmentation in the tourism area of Cacica and Vatra Dornei VD HORODNIC, PI BISTRICEAN, D MIHĂILĂ, V EFROS. GEOREVIEW: Scientific Annals of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava …
7. Detecting hotspots of changes in spatial pattern of forest fragmentation in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains VD Horodnic, V Efros, D Mihăilă, LM Lăzărescu, PI Bistricean EGU2020
8. GIS analysis of road network accessibility for emergencies managed by firefighters (case study–Suceava County, Romania) D Graur, V Efros Acta Geobalcanica 3 (2), 65-70
9. Virtual Tourism during the Pandemic. Comparative Study between Suceava and Maramureş Counties LD Diacon, LM Lăzărescu, V Efros, C Ciubotaru. LUMEN Proceedings 14, 649-660
10. THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH BETWEEN HISTORICAL BUCOVINA AND THE EXTRABUCOVINEAN TERRITORY FROM SUCEAVA COUNTY V Efros, C Cristian, DL Daniela HISTORY 7 (2), 41-47

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Spatial planning and development
2. Dynamics of geographical landscapes
3. Geographic risks and hazards
4. Geography of cultural landscapes
5. Geographical regionalization

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Dornelor Depression: Physical-geographical study, defended within IOSUD UAIC in 1999, published in 2023

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Romanian Register of Urban Planners, by Decision of the RUR Council no. 140/13.6.2013 Attestation of the right to sign and stamp RUR: F5-Protection and development of natural heritage, F1-Natural setting and environmental quality, G3-Environmental quality, (since 2013); participation in the Development of PTAJ Suceava, responsible partner of the contract 2018-2020, Development of local strategies.
2. CEMONT Vatra Dornei (The Mountain Economy Center) affiliated with The National Institute for Economic Research “COSTIN C. KIRIȚESCU” of the Romanian Academy, (associate researcher since 2014).
3. Name Assigning Commission, Prefect Institution, Suceava County (member since 2018);
4. Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, (CRIFST) of the Romanian Academy, Iași Branch (since 2014);

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years:

1. Chiriță Viorel (coord.), Schmitz Serge, 2017, Les friches minière- paysage culturel et enjeu de développement rural- Regards croisés entre Bucovine et Wallonie, Atelier de Presse, Université de Liège Belgia, coord. Viorel CHIRIȚĂ,  199p ISBN 978-2-930772-23-3
2. Chiriță V., Daniela Matei and Ion Mareș 2024 Moldoviţa – The commune in the heart of Bucovina, the structuring capital of natural and human heritage. Monographic study” authors:; ”Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava Publishing House, April, 2024, ISBN 978-973-666-799-2
3. Chiriță V., 2017, Les Paysages culturelle en Bucovine, pag 23-39, in the volume: Les friches minière- paysage culturel et enjeu de développement rural- Regards croisés entre Bucovine et Wallonie, Atelier de Presse, Université de Liège, Belgia, coord. Viorel CHIRIȚĂ,  199p ISBN 978-2-930772-23-3
4. Chiriță V, 2017, Scenarios de valorisation des friches minières de la Bucovine en tant que paysages culturelle, pag 39-51, in the volume: Les Paysages culturelle en Bucovine, Pag. 23-39, in the volume: Les friches minière- paysage culturel et enjeu de développement rural- Regards croisés entre Bucovine et Wallonie, Atelier de Presse, Université de Liège, Belgia, coord. Viorel CHIRIȚĂ,  199p ISBN 978-2-930772-23-3
5. Chiriță V., Daniela MATEI, 2019, Vulnerability and Resilience of the Mining Communities.The Case of Bukovina Region, Romania Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, http://jssp. reviste. ubbcluj.ro, https://doi.org/10.24193/JSSP.2019.2.08, volume published in the Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning nr 2/2019, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (http://geografie.ubbcluj.ro/ccau/ jssp/arhiva_2_ 2019/08JSSP022019.pdf).
6. Szakács Alexandru, Chiriță V., 2017, Protected Natural Values of Geoheritage Interest in the Călimani National Park, Eastern Carpathians, Romania, Geoheritage (2017) 9:421–434, Springer sept. 2-17, vol. 9, pp 421-434, ISSN 1867-2477, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-017-0230-7
7. Chiriță V., Matei Daniela, Efros V. 2016: Geo-Cultural Landscape – Landmark of Sustainable Evolution of The Rural Area Of Bukovina, Review Carpathians Journal of Earth an Environmental Sciences, August, 2015, vol.10, No.3, p.255-264,ISSN: 1842-4090
8. Chiriță V., (coord.), Violeta Puşcaşu, Mihai Iacobescu, Ioan Iosep, (2004)-Vatra Moldoviţei- the space and time of stable and dynamic heritage, ”Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava Publishing House, 311 pages, ISBN 973-666-133-4, 275pag, reissue in 2023, Musatinii Publishing House, Suceava
9. Chiriță V., (2003)- Dornelor Depression: Physical-geographical study, ”Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava Publishing House, ISBN973-666-009-5, 316pag, PhD thesis
10. Brânduș C., Grozavu A,  Efros V.,  Chiriță V. , (1999)- Dictionary of physical-geographical terms, Fundaţia Chemarea Publishing House Iaşi, ISBN 9739821065, 300 pag.

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Microfacies of carbonate rocks
2. Paleontological and mineralogical analyses
3. Environmental impact studies
4. Tourism exploitation of geological and geomorphological potential
5. Environmental geology

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Geological study of the Gura Şoimului Formation in the Vrancea Plain (Moldovei Valley – Tazlăului Valley Sector), 2002

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Member of the Romanian Geologists Association since 1991
2. Member of the Romanian Society of Palaeontologists since 1996
3. Member of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) since 2015

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years:

1. Popescu L.G., Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Hrytscu Veronika (2018) – Guide of the crossborder Field Trip of the International Symposium Environmental Quality and Land Use, Ed. Univ.„Ştefan cel Mare”, 85 p., 1 hartă, Suceava.
2. Iosep I., Popescu L.G., Ursu C.E. (2018) – Romanian countries on a geopolitical map of the borders between the Austrian, Russian and Ottoman empires at the end of the 18th century (1785).  Restitutions Series, Bukovina Museum, Karl. A. Romstorfer Publishing House, 269 p., 12 maps, Suceava
3. Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L. G., Ignătescu S., Boghian D. (2023) – Petrological Study of some Stone Axes belonging to the Bronze Age from North-East Romania, Neamţ National Museum Complex, Bibliotheca Memoriae Antiquitatis, XLVII, p. 333-345, Brăila – Piatra Neamţ.
4. Diaconu V., Aparaschivei C., Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L. G. (2023) – Stone objects belonging to the Bronze Age discovered in Northeastern Romania. Raw materials and symbolic value, Historical Research (new series), XLII, p. 81-94, Iași.
5. Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L.G., (2020) – Adâncata sandstone from the Moldavian Platform (Eastern Romania): geology, petrography, exploitation and capitalization as building stone, SGEM 2020 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7603-04-0, ISSN 1314-2704, 3-17 pp., https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2020/1.1
6. Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L.G. (2018) – Triassic Foraminifera from the Carbonate blocks of the Transilvanian Nappes of the Eastern Carpathians (Romania), Geologica Balcanica, Abstracts Volume, XXI Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association 10-13 September 2018, University of Salzburg, Austria, p.66.
7. Boghian D., Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L.G., Ignătescu S. (2018) – Raw materials and manufacturing techniques of the lithic chipped tools from the site Fetești-„La Schit” (Suceava County, Romania), INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM. RAW MATERIALS AND LITHIC ARTEFACTS FROM PREHISTORY TO MIDDLE AGES IN EUROPE, 22-26 October, Piatra Neamț, Abstracts, ISBN 978-973-7777-49-2, pp. 68-70.
8. Popescu L.G., Popescu D.A. (2016) – The exploitation of some mineral resources on Bistrita Valley and Moldova Valley upper stream between 1775 and 1914 (Bucovina, Romania), SGEM 2016 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-55-1/ISSN 1314-2704, June 28-July 6, 2016, Book 1, 611-618 pp., http://www.sgem.org/sgemlib/spip.php?article7018.
9. Popescu D.A., Popescu L.G. (2016) – Microfacies of the Anisian-Ladinian carbonates in the Transylvanian facies from the northern compartment of the Crystalline Mesosoic area of the Eastern Carpathians, SGEM 2016 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-55-1/ISSN 1314-2704, June 28-July 6, 2016, Book 1, 377-388 pp., http://www.sgem.org/sgemlib/spip.php?article6950.
10. Popescu D.A., Popescu L.G., Niculică B. P. (2015) – The Bronze Age in the Suceava Plateau, Karl A. Romstorfer Publishing House, Suceava 2015, Chapter V.4. Petrographic analyses.

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Microfacies of carbonate rocks
2. Paleontological and mineralogical analyses
3. Environmental impact studies
4. Tourism exploitation of geological and geomorphological potential
5. Environmental geology

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Geology and microfacies of Triassic carbonatites between the Moldovei Valley and the Trotuş Valley, 2003

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Member of the Romanian Geologists Association since 1991
2. Member of the Romanian Society of Palaeontologists since 1996
3. Member of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) since 2015

National Projects

• The project “National Competence Centre and solutions for the development of Climate Neutral and Smart Cities” (NetZeRoCities) since May, 2023, https://netzerocities.upb.ro/, member
• The project TE/2015, PNII-RU-TE-2014-4-2900 ,, Field studies in orthotidal potamology” (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2017), http://uefiscdi.gov.ro/userfiles/file/PN%20II_RU_TE%202014 /REZULTATE%20FINALE_PROIECTE%20ACCEPTATE%20LA%20FINANTARE/RUTE_2014_Lista%20proiecte%20acceptate%20la%20finantare_St%20pamantului.pdf, project manager, lecturer dr. Andrei Briciu (Overall amount of the project – 512.395,00 lei)
• The project 609 Type 1P-CD CEEX (2005- 2008), ,, The management and ecological security of the natural resources in the border hydrographic basin of the Prut” (MARESEP), project manager Prof. univ. dr. Maria Radoane (Overall amount of the project – 1.000.000 lei)
• The project 754, Type 1P-CD CEEX (2006-2008), ,,Advanced technologies for monitoring and managing the exploitation of natural resources with a high degree of vulnerability to natural disasters” (TAMMER), project manager Prof. univ. dr. Maria Radoane (Overall amount of the project – 93.850 lei)
• The project 743, Type 1P-CD CEEX (2006-2008), ,,Ecological rehabilitation and sustainable management of areas with land degraded by deep erosion and/or landslides in Moldova” (MARAVAL), project manager Prof. univ. dr. Maria Radoane (Overall amount of the project –400.000 euro),
• PC type project, implemented between 2008-2009 ,, Agroforestry strategies for the valorization and conservation of the biodiversity of medicinal plants in the context of sustainable rural development in the Bistriţa Mountain Valley” (MED-AGROSILV) – coordinator INCDSB Bucharest/CCB ,,Stejarul” Piatra Neamț, Partner 3 USV_ project manager Prof. univ. dr. Maria Radoane (Overall amount of the project – 350000 lei, Overall amount of Partner 3 – 70.000 lei)
• The project 747, C.J. Suceava (2008), ,, Map of risks and hazards on the territory of Suceava county”, project manager Prof. univ. dr. Costică Brândus

International projects

• The project BECO-2011-69-U-56115FT106 (2011-2013) ,,L’émigration féminine hautement qualifiae dans ,le secteur de santé roumain et bulgare vers la France: enjeux, défis et perspectives futures”, coordinated by Mrs. Lecturer dr. Despina Vasilcu (Overall amount of the project 35.525 euro)
• Member of the international research project with code number EEA-JRP-RO-NO – 2013-1-0204,,Forest response to climate change predicted from multicentury climate proxy-records in the Carpathian region” financed by the EEA financial mechanism, research in priority sectors (Overall amount of the project 1. 021. 000 euro)

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years:

1. Popescu L.G., Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Hrytscu Veronika (2018) – Guide of the crossborder Field Trip of the International Symposium Environmental Quality and Land Use, Ed. Univ.”Ştefan cel Mare”, 85 p., 1 hartă, Suceava. ISBN 978-973-666-537-0.
2. Popescu Daniela Alexandra (2008) – Geology and microfacies of Triassic carbonatites between the Moldovei Valley and the Trotuş Valley, Ed. Sedcom Libris, 221 p., 50 pl., Iaşi.
3. Popescu Daniela Alexandra (2008) – Geography of the Quaternary, Ed. Sedcom Libris,  135 p., Iaşi.
4. Popescu Daniela Alexandra (2008) – General Geology (course for geography majors), Ed. Sedcom Libris, 218 p., Iaşi.
5. Popescu Daniela Alexandra Popescu L. G., Ignătescu S., Boghian D. (2023) – Petrological Study of some Stone Axes belonging to the Bronze Age from North-East Romania, Neamţ National Museum Complex, Bibliotheca Memoriae Antiquitatis, XLVII, p. 333-345, Brăila – Piatra Neamţ.
6. Diaconu V., Aparaschivei C., Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L. G. (2023) – Stone objects belonging to the Bronze Age discovered in Northeastern Romania. Raw materials and symbolic value, Historical Research (new series), XLII, p. 81-94, Iași.
7. Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L.G., (2020) – Adâncata sandstone from the Moldavian Platform (Eastern Romania): geology, petrography, exploitation and capitalization as building stone, SGEM 2020 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7603-04-0, ISSN 1314-2704, 3-17 pp., https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2020/1.1.
8. Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L.G. (2018) – Triassic Foraminifera from the Carbonate blocks of the Transilvanian Nappes of the Eastern Carpathians (Romania), Geologica Balcanica, Abstracts Volume, XXI Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association 10-13 September 2018, University of Salzburg, Austria, p.66.
9. Popescu L.G., Popescu Daniela Alexandra, (2016) – The exploitation of some mineral resources on Bistrita Valley and Moldova Valley upper stream between 1775 and 1914 (Bucovina, Romania), SGEM 2016 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-55-1/ISSN 1314-2704, June 28-July 6, 2016, Book 1, 611-618 pp., http://www.sgem.org/sgemlib/spip.php?article7018.
10. Popescu Daniela Alexandra, Popescu L.G. (2016) – Microfacies of the Anisian-Ladinian carbonates in the Transylvanian facies from the northern compartment of the Crystalline Mesosoic area of the Eastern Carpathians, SGEM 2016 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-55-1/ISSN 1314-2704, June 28-July 6, 2016, Book 1, 377-388 pp., http://www.sgem.org/sgemlib/spip.php?article6950.

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Geographic information systems
2. Digital cartography
3. Historical environmental changes
4. Fluvial geomorphology

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Putna Valley from Vrancea region – geomorphological study, 2011

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Geoconcept Association of Applied Geography

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years:

1. List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…) or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years
2. Cristea A.I, (2023), Riverscape changes in the Lower Siret Basin in the late Little Ice Age, GEOREVIEW 33 (1), 138-156
3. Habsburg Cartographic Legacies in Bukovina (2021), Annals of Bukovina, XXVIII, 2 (57), p. 685–705 (co-author with Cristea C.)
4. The reconstruction of an abandoned historical reservoir network in a continental temperate climate region using a multi-method approach (2021), Applied Geography Volume 130, DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102447 (co-author with Margarint M.C., Niculita M., Nemeth A., Doru S.)
5. Using archaeological and geomorphological evidence for the establishment of a relative chronology and evolution pattern for Holocene landslides (2019), PLoS One 14:12 (co-author with Niculiţă M., Mărgărint M.C.)
6. The cadastral mapping system of Bukovina: from emergence to GIS integration (2018), Georeview 28 (1), 41-58
7. Last 1000 years of environmental history in Southern Bucovina, Romania: A high resolution multi-proxy lacustrine archive (2017), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 473, 26-40 (co-author with Florescu G., Hutchinson S. M., Kern Z., Mindrescu M., Mihăilă D., Łokas E., Feurdean A.)
8. Geomorphological evolution and longitudinal profiles (2017), în Landform dynamics and evolution in Romania, Springer International Publishing, 427-442 (co-author with M. Rădoane, D. Dumitriu, I. Perșoiu)
9. Glacial lakes and peatlands in the Romanian Carpathians (2016), map. Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava Publishing House, Romania. ISBN: 978-973-666-470-0 (co-author with M. Mțndrescu, A. Zamosteanu)
10. Styles of channel adjustments in the last 150 years (2017), în Landform dynamics and evolution in Romania, Springer International Publishing, 489-518 (co-author with M. Rădoane, I. Perșoiu, Maria Rădoane, F. Chiriloaei, D. Robu)
11. Spatial analysis of channel steepness in a tectonically active region: Putna river catchment, South-Eastern Carpathians (2015), Geographia Technica 10 (1), 19-27

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Human geography
2. Social geography
3. Rural tourism
4. Regional tourism
5. Toponomastics

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

The Moldova Valley in the Carpathian sector – a study of human geography, Universităţii Publishing House, Suceava, ISBN 978-973-666-243-0

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Romanian Geographical Society, Suceava University Branch

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years

1. Maria-Magdalena Lupchian, Saghin Despina, Vasile Efros, Cristian Ciubotaru, Anca-Gabriela Cotloană, 2025. Territorial identity, a dynamic process and vector of local and regional development. Case study – Bukovina (Romania). Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, Volume 17, Issue 1, 2025. Impact Factor: 0.8 (2023), ISSN online 2068-9969.
2. Saghin Despina, Daniel Lucheș, Maria-Magdalena Lupchian, 2025. The Potential Vulnerability of Romanian Children’ s Remigration: Educational Resilience or Failure? World 2025, Volume 6, Issue 2, 39. Impact Factor: 2.0 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/world6020039;
3. Mitrică, B., Bălteanu,D., Damian, N., Saghin Despina., Precup, I., Ilieș, M., Lupchian, M.M., 2023, Ukrainian  refugees in Romania: perception and social challenges. Disasters – Wiley Online Library, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12660, Impact Factor: 2.4 (2023);
4. Saghin Despina, L.-M. Lăzărescu, L.D. Diacon, M. Grosu.,  2022, Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism: A Decisive Variable in Stimulating Entrepreneurial Intentions and Activities in Tourism in the Mountainous Rural Area of the North-East Region of Romania. Sustainability, 14(16), 10282; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610282 Impact Factor: 3889 (2021) ; 5-Year Impact Factor: 4089 (2021);
5. Saghin Despina, Lupchian, M.-M, Lucheș, D., 2022, Social Cohesion and Community Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic în Northern Romania. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4587; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084587 Impact Factor: 4614 (2021) ; 5-Year Impact Factor: 4799 (2021);
6. Lucheș, D; Saghin Despina; Lupchian, M.-M. Public perception of the First Major SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak in the Suceava County, Romania. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, https://doi.org/10.3390/1406 Impact Factor: 2.849 (2019) ; 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.127 (2019);
7. Elena Matei, Saghin Despina, Liliana Dumitrache and Mariana Nae, 2018, Multidimensional Approach on Sustainability of Ageing in Romanian Residential Care Centres for Elders, in Sustainability 2018, 10 (9),https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093336, (Impact Factor: 2.075 (2017); 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.177 (2017);
8. Saghin Despina, Elena Matei, Ioana Cojocaru, Gabriela Manea and Octavian Cocoș, 2017, The Hutsuls in South Bukovina: from Tradition to Sustainable Development, in Eastern European Countryside, volume 23, Issue 1, pages 119-145, DOI://doi.org/10.1515/eec-2017-0006, https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/eec/eec-overview.xml (IF 2016: 0.722);
9. Matei, E.  Luches, D., Efros, V., Saghin Despina, 2017, Prediction model on asbestos use as a risk factor for the respiratory system cancer in communities from northern Romania. Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 02/2017; 12 (2):393-402 (2017 IF.0.88)
10. Saghin Despina, Luches, D., Marici, M., 2016. The Influence of Personal and Professional Variables Upon the Nature of Immigration of Romanian Doctors to France : The Moderating Effect of Gender. Transylvanian Review of Admnistrative Sciences  – RTSA, Issue No. 49 E/ October, 132-149. http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/498
11. Vasilcu, D., 2007, The Moldova Valley in the Carpathian sector – a study of human geography, Universităţii Publishing House, Suceava, ISBN 978-973-666-243-0, (343 pages)
12. Krasteva, A., Vasilcu, D., 2014, Migrations en blanc : Médecins d’Est en Ouest, l’Harmatan, Local & Global, Paris, (ISBN 978-2-343-03831-5)

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Population geography
2. Urban and rural geography
3. Cultural tourism
4. Cultural geography

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Suceava Municipality – urban geography study, 2008

Links to:

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years

1. Mitrică, B., Bălteanu, D., Damian, N., Saghin, D., Precup, I., Ilieș, M., & Lupchian Maria-Magdalena(2025). Ukrainian refugees in Romania: perception and social challenges. Disasters, 49(1), e12660. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12660, Impact Factor: 2,4 (2023);
2. Despina Saghin, Maria-Magdalena Lupchian, D. Lucheș (2022) – Social Cohesion and Community Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Northern Romania, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Social Cohesion and Community Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Northern Romania (mdpi.com), Impact Factor: 4,614, 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.798 (2019);
3. Lucheș, Despina Saghin, Maria-Magdalena Lupchian (2021) – Public perception of the First Major SARS-Cov-2 Outbreak in the Suceava County, Romania. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, https://doi.org/10.3390/1406 Impact Factor: 2.849 (2019); 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.127 (2019);
4. Matei, D., Chiriță, V., & Lupchian Maria-Magdalena(2021), Governance and tourism resilience during the Covid 19 crisis. Case study Bukovina, Romania, GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites, 34 (1), 256 – 262 GTG (uoradea.ro)
5. Lupchian Maria Magdalena & Saghin, D. (2023), Recent demographic developments in urban Romania, Georeview, Volume 33, No.1, 186-195 ; article-14-vol-33-1-2023 – GEOREVIEW (usv.ro)
6. Saghin, D. & Lupchian Maria Magdalena (2020), Migration of Romanian doctors in France: migration trajectories integration and identity construction, Georeview, Volume 30, No 1,  159-165; http://georeview.ro/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/430
7. Lupchian Maria-Magdalena &  Saghin, D.  (2020), Actors, premises and dysfunctions in the development of tourist activities in Suceava, Georeview, Volume 30, No 1, 146-148; http://georeview.ro/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/429
8. Member of the team updating the Suceava County Territorial Development Plan (2018 – 2020), responsible for the Population and Health Infrastructure chapters, project leader UAUIM-CCPEC, Bucharest
9. Member of the international project team Dynamique des paysages culturels situés dans  les sites aux friches minières dans la élaboration des stratégies rurales, Partener, Univeriste Liege, Belgique, funded by Angence Universitaire de la Francophonie, BECO București, 2016
10. Member of the international research project team on the topic “L’émigration féminine hautement qualifiée dans le secteur de santé roumain et bulgare vers la France: enjeux, défis et perspectives futures”, funded by Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (BECO – 2011 – 69 – U – 56115FT 106).

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Pedology and soil erosion modeling
2. Biogeography and applied ecology
3. Soil evolution in archaeological sites
4. Land use management
5. Global environmental changes

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

The Central Moldavian Plateau between Siret and Şacovăţ. Physical-geographical study, 2009

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Romanian Geographical Society
2. Romanian National Society of Soil Science
3. Romanian Association of Geomorphologists
4. International Association of Geomorphologists

National Projects

• Member of the international project team „The waves of Kurganization. Multidisciplinary studies of Early and Middle Bronze Age Pre-Carpathian barrow societies”, Nr. 2023/49/B/HS3/00966, University Adam Mickiewicz Poznan, Polonia, period 2024-2027.
• Collaborator in the Project “Labor market insertion – the vector of tertiary education”, within POCU/320/6/21 “Measures to optimize higher education study offers in support of employability”, code SMIS 121221, period 2019-2020. expert – teacher of the optional subject Environment and Climate Change, period 2019-2021.
• Member of the project team PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0791 “Development of a functional model for sustainable valorization of the genetic and phytochemical diversity of natural populations of Arnica montana L. from the northern Eastern Carpathians (ARMOREC)”, Grant no. 74/2014, USV partner team member, period 2014-2016.

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years

1. Apopei Lidia Maria, Mihăilă D., Bistricean P.I., Papaghiuc V., Budui V., Horodnic V.D. (2023), The evolution trend of the thermo-pluviometrical complex in Cotnari (1961-2020), Annals of the University of Oradea, Geography series, volume XXXIII, nr. 2/2023, p. 109-124.
2. Lazurca Liliana Gina, Mihăilă D., Bistricean P.I., Horodnic V. D., Țiculeanu Mihaela, Prisacariu A., Nistor Alina, Budui V., Nistor B., Silișteanu Sînziana–Cătălina (2023), Study on atmospheric radioactivity in Suceava Metropolitan Area, Scientific Annals of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava. Geography Series, t. XXXI-1/2023, p. 118-137.
3. Budui V. (2020), Assessment of soil erosion risk in the west of the Central Moldavian Plateau, International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Management, SGEM, 2020, 2020-August (3.1), ISBN 978-619-7603-08, ISSN 1314-2704, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2020/3.1, pp. 387–394.
4. Niculică B.P., Budui V., Aparaschivei C. (2020), Preliminary considerations regarding the prehistoric, ancient and medieval human habitat, based on recent archaeological, pedological and geomorphological investigations in the Rădăuţi microzone, Varia archaeologica (I). Tradition and innovation in archaeological research in Romania and the Republic of Moldova, eds.: Dan Aparaschivei, George Bilavschi, Ludmila Pârnău, Ed. Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2020.
5. Budui V. (2020), Emmanuel de Martonne – scientific heritage, Etude Interdisciplinaires en Sciences humaines (CODFREURCOR), vol.7, Universite detat Ilia, Tbilisi, Georgia, p. 201-214.
6. Boghian D., Budui V., Enea S.C., Ignătescu S. (2017), The space of the living and the dead. Landscape archaeology in the area of ​​the tumulus necropolis at Costâna (Todirești commune, Suceava county), In honor of Doina Benea, volume: Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology and History, Arheovest, t. V, Edit. JATEPress Kiadó, Szeged, Ungaria.
7. Budui V., Gontariu I. (2016), The influence of some soil fertility factors for sustainable agriculture in the west side of The Suceava Plateau, Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, Conference Proceedings of 16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference, SGEM 2016, book 3: Water Resources, Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, vol. II Soils, Forest Ecosystems, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, ISBN 978-619-7105-62-9, ISSN 1314-2704, DOI: 10.5593/sgem2016B32, p. 401-408.
8. Gontariu I., Budui V. (2016), Some agronomic measures for sustainable agriculture in the piedmonte agro-ecosystem from the western part of The Suceava Plateau, Water Resources. Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, Conference Proceedings of 16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference, SGEM 2016, book 3: Water Resources, Forest, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, vol. II Soils, Forest Ecosystems, Marine and Ocean Ecosystems, ISBN 978-619-7105-62-9, ISSN 1314-2704, DOI: 10.5593/sgem2016B32, p. 341-348.

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Human geography
2. Tourism
3. International tourism
4. Romanian touristic heritage
5. Geography of Continents

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Areas of tourist concentration in Suceava County : tourist potential and evolution / Gheorghe Cheia – Suceava : University Publishing House “Ștefan cel Mare”, 2016   ISBN 978-973-666-494-6

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Romanian Geographical Society, Suceava University Branch

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years

1. Marici M., Runcan R., Cheia G., David G., The impact of coercive and assertive communication styles on children’s perception of chores: an experimental investigation https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1266417/full (IF 2023:  3.8) 2024
2. Cheia G., The role of the state in the development of tourism. The case of travel vouchers in Romania http://georeview.ro/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/453 2023
3. Cheia Gheorghe, Crăciun Diana Georgiana (2022), Film festivals tourism impact. Case study: Cluj Shorts International Shorts Film Festival, Romania http://georeview.ro/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/443
4. Cheia G.,(2013) Ecotourism. Definitions and Concepts, Journal of Tourism, no. 15. http://www.revistadeturism.ro/rdt/article/view/44
5. Oprea-Gancevici D., Cheia G. (2012) The Evaluation of the Geomorphological Touristic Potential ofMountainous Areas. Case Study: the Rarău Massif, Forum geografic. Studii şi cercetări de geografie şi protecţia mediului, vol XI, no. 2. http://forumgeografic.ro/ro/2013/1446/
6. Cheia G. (2014), Analysis of the dynamics of major tourism indices regarding infrastructure and tourist flows in hotels from Suceava county, in Georeview, vol. 24, no. 2, 2014, http://georeview.ro/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/161
7. Cheia G. (2010), Research Methods in Tourism, Analele Universităţii ”Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava, Secţiunea Geografie, ANUL XIX. http://georeview.ro/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/98
8. Cheia G., Marici M. (2012) Rural Tourism in Suceava County Between 1996-2010: Evolution of Accommodation Capacity and Touristic Flow, Journal of Tourism, no. 13. http://www.revistadeturism.ro/rdt/article/view/9
9. Cheia G., Efros V,  The TASS (Tourism Area Space Spiral) With Possible Applications in the Gura Humorului (Romania) Resort. http://sgemsocial.org/ssgemlib/spip.php?article 1981&lang=en
10. Cheia G., Delibași, Cojocariu I., The family vacation and collaborative consumption in a new perspective, http://sgemsocial.org/ssgemlib/spip.php?article1969&lang=en

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Historical and millennial dynamics of riverbeds
2. Braided riverbeds
3. The impact of riparian vegetation on riverbeds
4. Geographic risk and hazard assessment

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

Quantitative analysis of the changes in the Moldova River bed in the extra-Carpathian sector, September 2012

Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. EGU-European Geosciences Union
2. AGR- Romanian Association of Geomorphologists
3. APGR – Professional Association Of Romanian Geographers

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years

1. Chiriloaei Francisca, Radoane M, Persoiu I, Popa I (2012), Late Holocene History of Moldova River Valley, Romania, Catena, 93: 64-77
2. Rădoane M, Nechita C, Chiriloaei Francisca, Rădoane N, Popa I, Roibu C, Robu D (2015), Late holocene fluvial activity and correlations with dendrochronology of subfossil trunks: case studies of northeastern Romania, Geomorphology, 239:142-159
3. Nechita C, Chiriloaei Francisca(2017), Interpreting the effect of regional climate fluctuations on Quercus robur L. trees under a temperate continental climate (southern Romania), Dendrobiology, 79:77-89,* corresponding author
4. Rădoane M, Chiriloaei Francisca, Sava Tiberiu, Nechita C, Rădoane N, Găza O (2019), Holocene fluvial history of Romanian Carpathian Rivers, Quaternary International, 527, 113-129  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.11.014,*corresponding author
5. Chiriloaei Francisca, Rădoane M (2015), The metamorphosis of a braided river channel during the last 100-years: Moldova Rver as a case study, Revista de Geomorfologie, nr. 17, 19-28
6. Rădoane M, Chiriloaei Francisca, Rădoane N, Nechita C (2018), Mid and Late Holocene flooding reconstruction based on fluvial archives of the East Carpathian Rivers, Revista de Geomorfologie, nr. 20, 17-33
7. Chiriloaei Francisca (2011), Slatina Village. Geographical monograph, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava Publishing House, ISBN 978-973-666-364-2, 222 p.
8. Rădoane M, Perșoiu I, Cristea I, Chiriloaei Francisca 2013), River channel planform changes based on successive cartographic data. A methodological approach. Revista de Geomorfologie, nr. 15, 69-88
9. Cătălin-Constantin Roibu, Tomasz Ważny, Alan Crivellaro, Andrei Mursa, Chiriloaei Francisca, Marian-Ionuţ Ştirbu, Ionel Popa (2021), The Suceava oak chronology: A new 804 years long tree-ring chronology bridging the gap between central and south Europe, Dendrochronologia 68, 125856
10. Roibu, C.-C. Sfeclă, V. Mursa, A. Ionita, M. Nagavciuc, V. Chiriloaei Francisca. Leșan, I. Popa, I. (2020) The Climatic Response of Tree Ring Width Components of Ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and Common Oak (Quercus robur L.) from Eastern Europe. Forests 2020, 11, 600. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11050600

Research directions / areas of expertise

1. Meteorology and Climatology
2. Urban Climatology
3. Bioclimatology and Balneoclimatology
4. Geographic and Satellite Information Systems
5. GIS mapping and analysis

Title of the doctoral thesis defended, year

The balneoclimatic potential of the tourist resorts from Moldova, 2018

Links to:

Membership in various professional organizations/societies

1. Member of the Association of Spanish Geographers (AGE), Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, Madrid, Spania
2. President of the Geographical Scientific, Non-Governmental and Non-Profit Organization of the Scientific Circle “Environment and Society” Suceava, Romania

National Projects

• Research Project PN-III-P1-1.1-TE 2021-0882, “Urban Climate Assessment: Basic Condition for Developing Local Resilience to Climate Change in the North-East Development Region of Romania”, Faculty of Geography and Geology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi
• Grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2900 (Field Studies In Orthotidal Potamology)

List of the 10 most representative published works (articles, books, atlases…)
or research projects in which you have been involved in the last 10 years

1. Bistricean P.I. (2020) – „The balneoclimatic potential of the tourist resorts from Moldova”. Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava Publishing House 2020, ISBN 978-973-666-634-6, 285 pages
2. Mihăilă D, Bistricean P-I, Sfîcă L, Horodnic V-D, Prisăcariu A, Amihăesei V-A., 2024 – „Summer Discrepancies between 2 m Air Temperature and Landsat LST in Suceava City, Northeastern Romania”. Remote Sensing. 2024; 16(16):2967. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16162967
3. Mihailă, D., Bistricean P.I., Gaceu, R., Emandi, E., Mihăilă, E., & Horodnic, V. (2024). A bioclimatic evaluation of sustainable tourist activities in western Romania. Heliyon, e29510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29510, FI. 4.00, AIS 0.605, Q2
4. Mihăilă D., Lazurca Liliana Gina, Bistricean P.I., Horodnic V.D., Mihăilă E.V., Emandi Elena-Maria, Prisacariu A., Nistor Alina, Nistor B., Roșu, C., (2023) – “Air quality changes in NE Romania during the first Covid 19 pandemic wave”, Heliyon, Volume 9, Issue 8, 2023, e18918, ISSN 2405-8440, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18918. (Factor Impact 3,776 in 2023)
5. Mihăilă D., Bistricean P.I., Horodnic V.D., (2021) „Drivers of Timberline Dynamics in Rodna Montains, Northern Carpathians, Romania, over the Last 131 Years”, Sustainability 2021, 13, 2089. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su13042089 (Factor Impact 2.576, Scopus 3.2);
6. Briciu A.E., Mihăilă D., Graur, A., Oprea, D.I., Prisăcariu A., Bistricean P.I. „Changes in the Water Temperature of Rivers Impacted by the Urban Heat Island: Case Study of Suceava City”. Water 2020, 12, 1343; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051343;
7. Bădăluță Carmen-Andreea, Perșoiu A., Ioniță Monica, Nagavciuc Viorica, Bistricean P.I. „Stable H and O isotope-based investigation of moisture sources and their role in river and groundwater recharge in the NE Carpathian Mountains, East-Central Europe”, Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, Factor Impact 1.527, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2019.1588895;
8. Mihăilă D., Bistricean P. I., Briciu A. E. „Assessment of the climate potential for tourism. Case study: the North-East Development Region of Romania”, Ref. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Factor Impact: 2.321, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2611-5
9. Briciu A.E, Mihăilă D., Oprea D.I, Bistricean P.I., Lazurca Liliana Gina – „Orthotidal signal in the electrical conductivity of an inland river” Environ Monit Assess 190:282, Factor Impact 1,804  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-018-6676-5
10. Mihăilă D., Bistricean P. I., Lazurcă Gina – Liliana, Briciu A. E. – „Climatic water deficit and surplus between the Carpathian Mountains and the Dniester River (1961–2012)”, Doi:10.1007/s10661-017-6253-3. Environ Monit Assess. 2017 Oct 8; 189 (11) 545. Print ISSN 0167-6369, Online ISSN, 1573-2959, Factor Impact: 1.687. Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28990121