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Mrs. Maria Bostenaru Dan

Dr. Dipl.-Ing.

scientific researcher grade III - UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Researcher | Scientific reviewer | Consultant

Graduate in Architecture (1999), University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, with certificates in multimedia, project management, and international and German competencies. PhD in Architecture (2012). Two postdoctoral fellowships, in Geography and Architecture, the latter in Rome. More than a decade of research experience abroad in Germany and Italy, with further stays in Portugal, Hungary and Canada. Project coordinator of a national exploratory research project. Holder of three Marie Curie fellowships, two in Pavia, Italy, and a reintegration grant in Romania. Beneficiary of travel grants in European projects; Steering Committee member of NeDiMAH ESF RNP, an associate partner in the MSCA DiXiT ITN. Participated in Marie Curie Researchers’ Night activities in Italy, Romania and Hungary. Active in several COST and three ICOMOS scientific committees. Leadership roles in the Marie Curie Fellows and Alumni Associations. Expert evaluator for the European Commission and several national agencies

Web of Science ResearcherID: B-6089-2011

Curriculum Vitae (18/05/2026)

Expertise & keywords

From early 20th century architecture photography collection to database: digital humanities applied to investigate local seismic, flood, fire culture Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de cercetare exploratorie - PCE-2021
PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0609 2022 - 2024

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/future-on-the-past/

Abstract:

The project proposes the transform the collection of photographs of early 20th century architecture (Art Nouveau and Modernism across Europe) gathered by the applicant over about 30 years of travel, into a database by answering the research question on how threats from the hazards of earthquake, flood and fire can be answered taking into account the local culture in the European countries covered, for buildings from a period when the architecture styles were global already that time. For this purpose digital humanities methods of image annotation (including architectural volumentric analysis) and mapping are employed. Apart of the mapping which takes also the form of story maps, being thus in dialogue with literature analysis methods of the relationship between traditional and modern in crisis times, also online exhibitions will be created. The subject is innovative as only recently the role of humanities in the fields of history and art history started to deal with the subject of catastrophes, following social sciences which entered this field of engineering and natural sciences. With this aim evaluation criteria will be developed considering the decisions which can be taken to prioritise the retrofit interventions depending on the geographic positions of the buildings. The analysis methods of philosophy of materials and technology history of these architecture objects are important, the theory of the shape from the time, but also phenomenology and the philosophy of Deleuze.

MCAA new horizon: Enhancing the impact of MSCA Alumni on the European Research Landscape Call name: EC - Horizon Europe
Horizon-242896-101086922 2022 - 2024

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: Institution

Project partners: MARIE CURIE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (BE)

Affiliation: MARIE CURIE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (BE)

Project website: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5072c25bd&appId=PPGMS

Abstract:

Innovation as a Necessity, Opportunity and Trademark of University Research Call name:
CNFIS-FDI-2021-0508 2021 - 2021

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" ()

Project website: https://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/innomincu/

Abstract:

Universitatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism „Ion Mincu”, prin proiectul INovarea ca Necesitate, Oportunitate și Marcă ÎNregistrată a

Cercetării Universitare (INNOMINCU), cofinanțat CNFIS-FDI 2021, desfășoară activități care au drept scop stimularea performanțelor

în activitățile de cercetare, dezvoltare și inovare, precum și îmbunătățirea abilităților de cercetare ale principalilor actori ai mediului

universitar: cadre didactice, cercetători, doctoranzi și studenți. De asemenea, ne propunem stabilirea unor relații de colaborare cu

instituții publice și private, precum și realizarea de proiecte experimentale, scalabile la nivelul universităților, în vederea creșterii

vizibilității și a prestigiului instituțional la nivel național și internațional.

DANUBE URBAN BRAND - A REGIONAL NETWORK BUILDING THROUGH TOURISM AND EDUCATION TO STRENGTHEN THE DANUBE CULTURAL IDENTITY AND SOLIDARITY”, INTERREG TransnationaL Danube Programme Call name:
DTP1-249-2.2 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

Project partners: BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS (); UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" ()

Project website: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/danurb

Abstract:

URBAN BLOCKS IN CENTRAL PROTECTED AREA IN MULTIPLE HAZARD APPROACH ASSESSMENT,MAPPING AND STRATEGIES FOR RISK MITIGATION.CASE STUDY: BUCHAREST-DESTRUCTURED ZONE BY RAZING OCCURING IN COMMUNIST PERIOD Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 1
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-0382 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE IN CONSTRUCTII, URBANISM SI DEZVOLTARE TERITORIALA DURABILA "URBAN-INCERC" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

Project website: http://www.uauim.ro/cercetare/urbasrisk

Abstract:

The habitat is a special-functional network where the home – as a basic structure coexists with the complementary public structures, commercial, educational, health and leisure facilities. The configuration of the habitat is an expression of the geoclimatic, social-politics and religious determinations of each community as a result of its organic development. The brutal destruction of the habitat as a result of communist demolition and multi-hazard exposure represents one of the major losses and threats to Romanian capital Bucharest.

Urban blocks of the central protected area are exposed to multiple hazards and need strategies for risk mitigation.

The case study area will be located in a central protected zone with a lot of patrimony habitat adjacent to the major axis E-W of Bucharest, in proximity of the Parliament Palace.

Which was traumatized by earlier interventions during the dictatorship of Ceausescu and is therefore inhomogenous.

Regarding the protection of architectural, urban, historic and natural environment values as a whole, a maximum level of protection was recommended.

Diminishing multi-hazard risk through architectural, structural and urban planning in this area for: buildings, building proximities, urban sector, locality, region-territory area is a major task.

Investigation and mapping of the characteristics specific for hazard of the location, the exposed risk elements, their vulnerability and the resulted risk (direct and indirect losses), as well as establishing the accepted risk and the identification of the secure habitat typology with patrimonial identity for urban development and post-disaster reconstruction.

The research is proposing the scientific substantiation of some management operations for the reduction of disaster risk of the built space and the space under post-disaster reconstruction with keeping the continuity and specificity of the urban habitat, in order to preserve the feeling of civic affiliation.

Spatial and temporal patterns of urban vulnerability in Bucharest Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0175 2011 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://www.geodinamic.ro/reveal

Abstract:

As early as 1997, half of the Globe population has lived in cities, and this percentage will increase continuously. Planet Earth will become an urban environment. A high level of vulnerability to natural instabilities characterizes cities, by definition fragile socio-economic systems, creating premises for multiple malfunctions and risks. Therefore, the mitigation of urban systems vulnerability to environmental instabilities will result in significant reductions of the costs in case of natural disasters occurrence. The objective of the project is of maximum novelty in research on the city of Bucharest and aims to evaluate environmental vulnerabilities patterns in a time-space frame, due to natural and anthropogenic factors. The objective will be achieved via diachronic cartography and radar interferometry (InSAR) techniques, correlated with declining groundwater levels (due to groundwater extraction) and construction. Urban change detection maps created based on TanDEM-X data, corroborated with complementary data including historical and thematic maps and orthophoto images, and a previous map of deformation based on ERS-1/2 data, will create the core of information required in studying past deformations and current dynamics of Bucharest.

Results will capture the space-time evolution history of the city and the vulnerability of natural support, the consequences of the exploitation of the aquifer layers and the effect in the built environment.

Doctoral and postdoctoral programs to promote excellence in research - highly qualified human resources for research in the fields of Life, Environment and Earth Sciences Call name:
POSDRU/159/1.5/S/133391 2013 - 2015

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI ()

Project website:

Abstract:

The innovation in the plan of the current floor: Zoning in blocks of flats for the middle class in the first half of the 20th century Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-89804-200636 2007 - 2010

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: Fundatia ERGOROM '99

Project partners: Fundatia ERGOROM '99 (RO)

Affiliation: Fundatia ERGOROM '99 (RO)

Project website:

Abstract:

'In Nouvelles Impressions d'Architecture, Libeskind (1998) writes 'When architecture no longer deals with Space, all transactions, in which the container and the contained twisted together […] have come to an end'. A systemic analysis can be performed morphologically, functionally or dynamically. The connection between the appearance and the generation of the form, human perception and experience, the processional nature of any system, is considered. The buildings of the Modern Avantgarde were raised during a very short time span of 20, sometimes just 10 years, in several different parallelly coexisting styles, coexisting also with newest developments in music, arts, physics, philosophy, economic and social theory and industrialisation. One of the nuclei of the movement was built by the housing programme, particularly suitable to foster innovation. While in more industrialised countries ways to solve social problems were seeked for, in the other European countries the new possibilities were seen as an opportunity to give a more prosperous image to cities, by raising density with blocks of flats for the middle class. The study will concentrate on European features of building stock which have not been covered by previous studies, namely the spatio-functional research of the interior organisation of the dwelling in the blocks of flats for the middle class. The study proposes a heterogeneous model in which a zone has instead of a unique function a unique vocation. Zoning results as a structural product in the superposition and interpenetration of textures (sub-systems of the life-frame elements able to respond to the functionally requested situation) of morphologic elements, thanks to the co-operation process of human activities. There is a complex zoning with operational and organisational value. As case studies will be considered: - Milan 1920-1940; - Bucharest 1920-1940; - Athens 1919-1939; - forerunners of and Avant-Garde in Budapest 1896-1939.'

Extinderea capacităţii instituţionale a UAUIM pentru cercetare în arhitectură şi urbanism prin crearea unei culturi a diseminării rezultatelor Call name: Fondul de Dezvoltare Instituţională - FDI - Competiţia 2025
CNFIS-FDI-2025-F-0040 2025 -

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

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Abstract:

"Marie Curie Researchers Symposium „SCIENCE - Passion, Mission, Responsibility”" Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-102140-296096 2019 -

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMOW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK

Project partners: INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMOW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PL)

Affiliation: INSTYTUT PODSTAWOWYCH PROBLEMOW TECHNIKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (PL)

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Abstract:

Cultural Heritage Research Meets Practice Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-88494-213026 2019 -

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: NARODNA IN UNIVERZITETNA KNJIZNICA

Project partners: NARODNA IN UNIVERZITETNA KNJIZNICA (SI); UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI (SI)

Affiliation: NARODNA IN UNIVERZITETNA KNJIZNICA (SI)

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Abstract:

Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network Call name: EC-FP7
FP7-109100-317436 2019 -

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN

Project partners: UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN (DE); UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN (BE); KONINKLIJKE NEDERLANDSE AKADEMIE VAN WETENSCHAPPEN - KNAW (NL); NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND MAYNOOTH (IE); HOEGSKOLAN I BORAS (SE); ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES (FR); THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (UK); UNIVERSITAET GRAZ (AT); UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA (IT); KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (UK)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN (DE)

Project website: http://dixit.hypotheses.org/

Abstract:

Decision making based on analysis of benefit versus costs of preventive retrofit versus costs of repair after earthquake hazards Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-1880 2018 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

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Abstract:

WOMENS' CREATIVITY SINCE THE MODERN MOVEMENT | MOMOWO Symposium 2018 Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-0960 2018 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

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Abstract:

9th LUMEN International Scientific Conference Communicative Action & Transdisciplinarity in the Ethical Society CATES 2017 Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2017-1334 2017 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU"

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA DE ARHITECTURA SI URBANISM "ION MINCU" (RO)

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