She holds a PhD (2009) in urban planning and housing policies and was a visiting researcher at Institut d’Urbanisme de Lyon with the support of a French Government Scholarship (2001–2005). Since 2000, she teaches at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning in Bucharest. She is president and founding member of the Association for Urban Transition (ATU) since 2001, where she works as trainer, consultant and project manager. From 2013, she is vice-president of Playing Architecture, an association which promotes built environment education for children in schools.