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Mr. Vlad-Andrei Lazarescu

PhD

Researcher - ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Researcher

Vlad-Andrei Lăzărescu is a Senior Researcher (CS II) in the Department of Archaeology of the Institute of Archaeology and History of Art, Cluj-Napoca (Romanian Academy), where he has worked since 2010 on Roman, Late Roman, and Early Migration-Period archaeology in Transylvania. He also teaches as an Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University and at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica București – Pitești Center. Trained at Babeș-Bolyai University (BA History and Archaeology, 2008; MA Archaeology and Classical Studies, 2010), he earned his PhD in History (2014) with a thesis on settlement dynamics in north-western Transylvania between AD 250–450, using the site at Suceagu (Cluj County) as a key case study. He is particularly drawn to the human stories behind frontier archaeology: how military infrastructure, civilian life, and “barbarian” communities interacted, exchanged technologies, and shaped identities from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD. His work span

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Curriculum Vitae (15/07/2026)

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Centre of Excellence in Digital Cultural Heritage: Innovation in Digitization and Digital Investigation based on Cutting-Edge Technologies Call name: PNCDI IV, SP 5.6.1 - Centre de excelență, CoEx2024
PN-IV-P6-6.1-CoEx-2024-0206 2026 - 2030

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Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA OVIDIUS (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO); UNIVERSITATEA "ŞTEFAN CEL MARE" DIN SUCEAVA (RO); ACADEMIA NAŢIONALĂ DE MUZICĂ "GHEORGHE DIMA" DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU TEHNOLOGII IZOTOPICE SI MOLECULARE I N C D T I M (RO); MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMANIEI (RO); MUZEUL NATIONAL DE ISTORIE AL TRANSILVANIEI (RO); COMPLEXUL NATIONAL MUZEAL "ASTRA" SIBIU (RO); ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL AL PATRIMONIULUI (RO)

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The project will establish a high-performing multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence specialized in the investigation, preservation and promotion of Romanian cultural heritage (CH) using cutting-edge technologies. CulTech is a synergistic structure that brings together complementary research capacities of 11 highly relevant research institutions and a team of over 200 specialists from Romania and abroad providing expertise in history, archaeology, art history, numismatics, ethnology, ethno-choreology, musicology, bibliology, conservation-restoration, museum science, architecture, photography and data acquisition, 3D scanning and modelling, NC manufacturing, physical-chemical analysis, AI, XR, robots, IoT, multimedia, pattern recognition etc. The common theme which coagulates this extensive multidisciplinary team is innovation in tangible, intangible and born digital CH protection and valorization for future generations. Therefore CulTech will design and implement innovative approaches based on a ground-breaking interplay between material components of the CH and their digital replicas, or Digital Twins (DT). The concept of DT for CH is central for the project. Through DT and cutting-edge technologies, CulTech intends “to preserve our cultural heritage and bring it to this digital decade”. The project responds to Romania’s Strategic Research Agenda, providing new transdisciplinary, holistic approaches to support the sustainable management of CH.

ʽTravelling thingsʼ: Corpus of Roman finds in Romanian Barbaricum. The case of Iași and Neamț counties Call name: P 5.1 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie - Competiția 2023
PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-1124 2025 - 2027

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Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMÂNĂ - FILIALA IAŞI (RO)

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Project website: http://www.travellingobjects.ro

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Due to its privileged geographical position, historical Moldavia has consistently received influences of the most important civilizations of Antiquity. The presence of the Romans on the Lower Danube significantly shaped the evolution of this small area for almost half a millennium. Throughout this period, complex and dynamic relations developed between the ʽbarbarianʼ populations of Moldavia and the neighboring Empire, through which an impressive quantity of Roman goods reached the area east of the Carpathians. For the first time in Romania, we intend to record all these ʽtravelling objectsʼ, both published and unpublished, using the uniform cataloguing system and database of the international project Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum. As case studies we have chosen the counties of Iași and Neamț, well known archaeologically and extremely rich in Roman discoveries. These finds are extremely varied typologically and chronologically and can be considered representative for the whole of Moldavia. The study of these objects will be carried out in a comprehensive manner, using methods specific to humanities disciplines (analysis of sources, comparative method, study of contexts), but also modern investigative techniques (compositional analysis, GIS technology). The research will be carried out by an interdisciplinary team, made up of specialists covering all the areas of the project.

Long-distance Contacts between the Carpathian Basin and the Western Provinces during the Migration Period (4th-6th Centuries AD). Call name:
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-1281 2018 - 2018

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

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Roman military artillery on the northern frontier of Roman Dacia Call name:
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2017-1773 2017 - 2017

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

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Seeing the Unseen. Landscape Archaeology on the Northern Frontier of the Roman Empire at Porolissum (Romania). Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 1
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-0924 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI BIOLOGICE CLUJ FILIALA A INCDSB BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Project website: http://www.porolimes.ro

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Today we assist to a fast and spectacular evolution of the research methods in archaeology. It is not only a matter of the technological progress which provided new and efficient instruments, but a revolution of the concepts, of the “philosophy” of archaeology. Traditional archaeology was based on a long-period excavation for main sites. But the scientific community desires faster and more consistent results as time goes by. On this basis were more and more used during the last years the non-destructive types of surveys, using aerial photographs, geomagnetic prospecting, georadar and electrical resistivity methods and last hour technology analysis based on satellite images. Results offered by these new surveying methods were impressive. At the same time the concept of “landscape archaeology” became more and more used. Archaeology in its attempt to record the material remains of the ancient communities, but also to create an understandable pattern for them was confronted with more questions concerning the landscape, the natural conditions and the natural resources which influenced the life of men in Antiquity. “Landscape archaeology” became a concept defining the global analyses of a site or of an area in a period of time. This new concept gave birth to new methods, the necessity of appealing to other disciplines, creating the multidisciplinary dimension of “landscape archaeology”. While traditional archaeology was uncovering the material remains of ancient human activity, the “landscape archaeology” is revealing data hidden to our normal seen.

Starting from this general background and from the identification of the poorer documented aspects we established the main objectives of the research project.

Crossing the boundaries. Remodeling cultural identities at the end of Antiquity in Central and Eastern Europe. A case study. Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0158 2011 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: Academia Romana - Filiala Cluj-Napoca

Project partners: Academia Romana - Filiala Cluj-Napoca (RO)

Affiliation: Academia Romana - Filiala Cluj-Napoca (RO)

Project website: http://archaeoboundaries.ro

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After the withdrawal of the Roman administration from Dacia, the economic and social aspects of the region have significantly changed. For approximately a century, essential cultural changes occurred on a huge area. Around AD 400 in the whole Carpathian Basin one can find a mixture of diverse cultural elements, which suggests an important dislocation of the old social framework. The study of the way in which the tribal communities lived and interacted with the Roman world is a subject not sufficiently exploited. In reality, the contact between the Roman and the barbarian world represented an essential historical process which later on gave birth to the medieval Europe as we know it. The novelty of such a project consists in a unitary approach of a subject analyzed in its historical and regional development as well as the attempt to identify some cultural patterns which can be applied to the realities of the region under study. Focusing upon the archaeological discoveries from a cultural anthropological and sociological perspective (for a better understanding of the mechanisms that determined the way in which human communities functioned) is also a new manner in which archaeology can be approached. The expected impact of the project for the scientific milieu implies the study for the first time of a geographical region still very little known, but situated in a crossroad point of different civilizations.

project title Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-1281 2018 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

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project title Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2017-1773 2017 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

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