BrainMap

Mihaela Cristina Iacob

Phd Student - INSTITUTUL DE ARHEOLOGIE "VASILE PIRVAN"

PhD student

Expertise & keywords

Centre of Excellence for Climate and Societal Changes Call name: PNCDI IV, SP 5.6.1 - Centre de excelență, CoEx2024
PN-IV-P6-6.1-CoEx-2024-0042 2026 - 2030

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA " HORIA HULUBEI " - IFIN - HH (RO); INSTITUTUL DE ARHEOLOGIE "VASILE PIRVAN" (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA PAMANTULUI - INCDFP RA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website:

Abstract:

In the face of an unprecedented global climate challenge, the "Centre of Excellence for Climate and Societal Changes" (CECSC), aims to unravel the complex relationship between climate change and human behaviour. CECSC's interdisciplinary approach brings together experts from fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, geography, sociology, psychology, history, archaeology, ethnology, and linguistics. The center's strategic plan is based on three key Research Directions. The first, “History and Culture”, evaluates long-term human responses to climate changes. The second, “Climatic Impact”, integrates observational data, paleoclimate reconstructions, and climate simulations to understand the interplay between climate change, societal impacts, and human behavior. The third, “Human Behaviour”, integrates findings from past climate adaptation behaviours with current practices to develop strategies for promoting pro-environmental behaviours. To support its research, CECSC is establishing a state-of-the-art isotope and geochemical laboratory, and developing and an AI tool that determine climate-related behavioural change determinants in individuals. Through its groundbreaking research and initiatives, CECSC aims to make significant contributions to the understanding and advancement of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, providing new knowledge of regional climate change at a ten-thousand-year time scale in the peri-Carpathian region.

First North Pontic Steppe Populations in the Balkans. A bioarchaeological outlook of Cernavoda I communities in the Lower Danube Basin (Romania) Call name: P 5.1 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie - Competiția 2023
PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-1899 2025 - 2028

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: https://unibuc.ro/cercetare/promovarea-rezultatelor-cercetarii/proiecte-de-cercetare/proiecte-cu-finantare-nationala/bioarhsteppe/

Abstract:

In the Bărăgan Plain and Dobrogea regions, the evolution of the Gumelnița civilization was interrupted or at least drastically disrupted at the end of the 5th millennium BC. This period and the first half of the 4th millennium BC is known as one in which rapid climate changes took place (cool and drought) and which, for the SE area of Romania, led to essential challenges related to the resilience or vulnerability of certain societies in these extreme conditions. The first Eastern populations of Indo-European origin are the Cernavoda I, who settled in Dobrogea. They have adopted several elements of material and spiritual civilization from the Eneolithic communities, so archaeological research has captured at least an apparent continuity. The project proposes a complex analysis from a bioarchaeological point of view (animals and plants used for food or other purposes, animal paleoeconomy, anthropic pressure on landscapes, food, health and lifestyle, ritual practices etc.) of the period when the culture Cernavoda I is documented in SE Romania in the first half of the 4th millennium BC, a period known as transitory which marks the end of the Copper Age and the beginning of the Bronze Age. Aspects related to human adaptation strategies to rapid climate changes documented, their management, flexibility or vulnerability of these populations in crisis conditions will be researched for the first time in order to set up the lifestyle patterns of past humans.

FILE DESCRIPTION	DOCUMENT
List of research grants as project coordinator or partner team leader
Significant R&D projects for enterprises, as project manager
R&D activities in enterprises
Peer-review activity for international programs/projects