Teaching Experience

• 2024:

  • Hosted Realismul Magic Azi - Magic Realism Today for adults at the bookstore Cărturești Mercy in Timișoara, Romania 

  • Hosted Personaje Preferate - Favourite Characters for 10-year olds at Liceul Grigore Moisil in Timișoara, Romania

  • Hosted Kaleidoscopic Narratives online

  • Hosted Write Your Self as IWD workshop for women​

• 2023: Co-hosted Memory and Imagination with Claudia Tănăsescu at PLAI Festival

• 2022:

  • Hosted Discovering Your Untamed Voice for Happy Writing

  • Hosted Kaleidoscopic Narratives for Beyond Form Creative Writing

• 2019: Co-hosted Writing the Fantastic with Steve Toase at the Orangerie Art Gallery in Munich

• 2016-2017: Founder and workshop leader at Creative Writing in Munich (currently Creative Questers)

• 2015-2017: Teacher at Sarah Selecky Writing School  

  • The Story Intensive​

  • The Story Workshop

• 2012-2015: Leader of the online writing community Fața Cărții 

• 2011: Leader of in-person creative writing sessions in Timișoara, Romania

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Curatorial Experience

• 2020: Curator of the literary section of Arcana 2020, an international online digital collaboration
  comprising work by 40 artists and writers (art curator and overall curator: Hazel Ang)

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Editorial Experience

• 2019: Board-Certified (BELS) Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS)

• 2017-2018: Reader and editor of flash fiction at Flash Fiction Magazin

• 2010-2011: Editor-in-Chief of the PDAC Newsletter, U of C

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Education and Professional Development

• 2024: ​

  • Ongoing: Art Life Coach Certification with Holistico

  • Ongoing: Dual Certification as Forest Bathing Guide and Forest Therapy Practitioner with Forest Therapy Hub

  • Tin House Craft Intensive - Writing Place and Land with Dur e Aziz Amna

  • Psychological First Aid (John Hopkins University; Coursera)

• 2023: 

  • ​​Granta/Professional Writing Academy Nature Writing (UK; online)

  • Surreal Prose Poetry with Jose Hernandez Diaz (US; online)

  • Hitting a New Note - Poetry Class with Alina Ștefănescu (US; online)

  • Mornin’ Poets (Romania; online)

• 2019-2023: Corporeal Writing Workshop (US; online)

• 2020-2021: Beyond Form Creative Writing Workshops (Scotland; online)

• 2018-2020: AWP Conferences (Virtual; Portland, OR; Tampa, FL; USA)

• 2011-2018: EMWA Certificates - Foundation and Advanced Medical Writing

• 2017: Life Purpose Coach Certification with Transformation Academy​​

• 2015:
  • Lemon Tree House Writing Retreat (Tuscany, Italy)​
  • Iceland Writers Retreat (Reykjavik, Iceland)​
• 2014-2020: Workshops with Creative Nonfiction Magazine (The Flash Essay, Advanced Memoir, The Book Proposal, etc.)
• 2013: Sarah Selecky Writing School - The Story Intensive

• 2012: Writing in the Sciences, graduated with distinction, Stanford University through Coursera

• 2011:

  • ​Banff Science Communications Graduate with a Canadian Science Writers Association and Genome Alberta scholarship

  • Writers' Guild of Alberta Annual Retreat (Banff Centre for the Arts, AB, Canada)

• 2010: Creative Writing I and II at the University of Calgary - Continuing Education (AB, Canada)

• 2009: PhD at TU Dortmund/IMPRS-LM (International Max Planck Research School for Living Matter), Germany

  • One-month research internship as guest scientist at University of California, Irvine, Orange County, USA​

• 2006: MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Bremen, Germany

• 2004: BSc in Chemistry at the West University of Timișoara, Romania

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Professional Memberships

• She Writes

• AWP (The Association of Writers and Writing Programs)

• Women Who Submit Europe

• Babes Who Write 

• See also Writing Communities​​

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