Irina Cristescu
Sociologist, Trainer & Motivational Speaker
Biography
Irina Cristescu
Degree: PhD, University of Bucharest, RO
Location: Bucharest, RO
Willing to travel

Motivational Speaker
Languages
November 2013 - December 2013: Motivational speaker at my own event 'Turning your obstacles into opportunities' Workshop
November 2013: Awarded Trainer at GS Consulting SRL
May 2013 - Present: Motivational Speaker at Public Speaking Romania (Speakers' Arena)
English
Spanish
French
Italian
Skills
Television & Radio
October 2012 - April 2013: Guest Speaker at Hope TV Romania
August 2011 - September 2011: Guest Speaker at Hope Radio Romania
Public & Motivational Speaking
Social Media Marketing
Communications
Project management
Content writing
Photography:
Journalism
2014 February, in press: La răscruce de gânduri (Thoughts on a Milestone), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 November, in press: Bun sau rău? (Good or bad?), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 October, in press: Mirajul înșelăciunii (The mirage of fraud), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 October, in press: Frica de a înfrunta frica (The fear of facing fear), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 August, in press: Legea atracției și atracția mirajului (The Secret – The law of attraction and the mirage of attraction), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 June, in press: Asasinul silentios (The silent assassin), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 May, in press: Regina micilor placeri vinovate ale vietii (The queen of small guilty pleasures of life), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 March, in press: În locul celuilalt cu siguranță te-ai ajuta (Being in someone else's shoes you would help yourself), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 February, in press: Totul despre omul care te poate opri (mic tratat despre tine) (Everything about the person that can stop you from being you), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2013 January, in press: Cursa pentru fericire (The race for happiness), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2012 December, in press: Drumul către divorț pavat cu intenții bune (The road to divorce is paved with good intentions), Semnele TImpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2012 November, in press: Neadaptații de azi și neglijența de ieri (Unadapted adults consequence of yesterday's negligence), Semnele Timpului (Signs of the Times Magazine).
2009: Emotions from the perspective of social exchange - approaches of the "satisfaction-power" relation within social interaction. In Romanian Sociology, Vol 7, No. 2. Iași: Ed. Polirom.
2009: Review: Septimiu Chelcea. Shame and guilt in public space. Towards a sociology of emotions. In Romanian Sociology, Vol. VII, No. 2. Iaşi: Ed. Polirom.
2009, Irina Cristescu and Dragos Iordache: Sociological and Pedagogical Aspects Regarding the Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Platform for Learning Biology. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Informatics in Economy.
2008: Emotions from the point of view of social exchange. In Romanian Sociology, Vol. VI, No. 3-4. Iaşi: Ed. Polirom.
2008: Review: Paul Ekman, Erika L. Rosenberg, What the face reveals. Basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using Facial Action Coding System (FACS). In Romanian Sociology, Vol. VI, No. 1. Iaşi: Ed. Polirom.
2008: Review: Review: Septimiu Chelcea (ed.). Psychology. Theories, research, applications (eds 2). In Social Psychology, No. 21. Iaşi: Ed. Polirom.
2008: Emotions in human-computer interaction: the role of nonverbal behaviour in interactive systems. In Economic Informatics. Vol XII, No. 2(46). Bucharest: Inforec.
2008: Online communities: approaches, principles, dilemmas. In Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference of Human-Computer Interaction, RoCHI. Iaşi, Romania.
2008, Irina Cristescu and Dragos Iordache: Augmented reality in school environments: sociological and pedagogical aspects regarding learning and cooperation within cooperative tasks. Proceedings of ICTNSE International Conference - 2008, Siauliai 27-30 November, pp. 141-146.
Academia & Research
December 2011 - Present: Scientific secretary of Social and Cultural Innovation Group (SCI-SWG) - part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) – during the meetings held at the European Commission in Brussels, http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri
December 2011 - Present: Scientific researcher, Romanian Social Data Archive, University of Bucharest, Romania.
October 2010 - February 2011: Junior teaching assistant (Sociology of emotions) at University of Bucharest, Romania.
November 2009 – July 2010: Scholarship at University of Leuven, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology (Department of Psychology) under the coordination of prof. Batja Mesquita.
February 2008 – July 2009: Sociologist at The National Institute of Research and Development in Informatics , Bucharest, Romania.