Igor Sîrodoev

Igor Sîrodoev earned his BSc in Geography from the Al. I.Cuza University of Iași, while his MSc in Urban and Rural Systems Simulation Modeling and PhD in Geography he received from the University of Bucharest. Dr. Sîrodoev completed his studies by obtaining a Habilitation in Geography from the University of Bucharest in 2016. After 2010, he progressed through all stages of a researcher’s career, from postdoc to senior researcher, at the University of Bucharest. Between 2014 and 2023, Igor Sîrodoev served as an Associate Professor at Ovidius University of Constanța (Romania), and has held a professorship there since February 2023. With an academic background in geography, Igor has rich experience in interdisciplinary research. Studying spatial and temporal patterns in the environment and society is his recurrent research theme, while his present interests are related to Earth Observation/Remote Sensing, Regional (subnational) environmental change, including land use/cover change, and spatial planning. Although his study area is in Central and Eastern Europe, Dr Sîrodoev has enjoyed international collaborations and has been involved in projects and activities financed by world-leading institutions, such as NASA, UNDP, UNFPA, IHDP, NATO SfP, US CRDF, EASME/EMFF, and Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships. He was invited as a visiting young research fellow at the Department of Geography of Pennsylvania State University (2005), and in 2021-2022, Dr. Sîrodoev was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at the Center for Global Change & Earth Observations at Michigan State University.