Maria Bostenaru Dan is a researcher at the ‘Ion Mincu’ University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest, Romania. She graduated at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Her doctorate is from the ‘Ion Mincu’ University. She benefitted of a DFG scholarship at her Alma Mater, two Marie Curie fellowships in Pavia, Italy and a Marie Curie reintegration grant in Bucharest. She had a postdoc in geography at the University of Bucharest and one in architecture at Accademia di Romania in Rome.