2015 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy – project on: 'Decision-making models of patients and their surrogate decision-makers', coordinated by Prof. Sorin Cace.
2013 PhD in Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania – thesis on: 'Cultural Decision Models. Parallel Games with Incomparable Pay-offs', coordinated by Prof. Lazăr Vlăsceanu.
2008 MA Social Research, University of Warwick, UK. – dissertation on: ‘Game Theory, Volunteering and Social Context: A case study of Romania’, coordinated by Prof. Mick Carpenter.
2007 BA Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania – thesis on: ‘The Relationship Between Subjective Uncertainty and Communication in Group Decision-making by Consensus’, coordinated by Prof. Cătălin Zamfir.
Research interests: decisions about health and treatment, decision-making structures, decision sciences, mathematical sociology, work-life balance, volunteering, community initiatives
ANNUALY PLANNED RESEARCH:
- Social Inclusion Policy, coordinator prof. Sorin Cace
- Virtual Library of Sociology, coordinator prof. Cătălin Zamfir
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:
2015:
- A Dinamical System Model for the Social Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February 11th, 2015.
2014:
- Parallel Games with Incomparable Pay-offs as tools of social and economic forecasting, The 2nd International Conference ”Economic Scientific Research, Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches, November 13-14, 2014, National Institute for Economic Research "Costin C. Kirițescu", Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
- Incomparable Pay-Offs and Rationality - the Parallel Games Approach at ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 13-19, Yokohama, Japan.
2012:
- Multiple Games and Incomparable Payoffs: an Experimental Approach, at Beyond Globalization? The 2nd International Conference of the Romanian Sociological Society, May 31st - June 3rd, 2012, Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
- Parallel Games with Incomparable Pay-offs, at Micro Theory Brown Bag Seminar, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, December 18th, 2012.
- Rational Choice Theory: Theory and Empirical Results, at Polish Academic Society Seminar, June 12th, 2012, Department of Sociology, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland.
2011:
- From Individual to Social Choice: a Parallel Games Model, at Logic, Game Theory, and Social Choice, July 6-9, 2011, National School of Political and Administrative Studies and University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
- Testarea Teoriei Raționalității [Testing Rational Choice Theory], at Doctoral Workshop „Rationality - the path of a concept in social research”, March 29th, 2011 Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
2010:
- An Instrument for Social Innovation Identification: a Case Study, at "Twenty years of change: problems and perspective. Quality of life after 29 years, February 12-14, 2010, Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy, Romania.
PUBLICATIONS:
Gheondea-Eladi, A. (2015) The evolution of certainty in a small decision-making group by consensus, Group Decision and Negotiation, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10726-015-9436-8
Gheondea-Eladi, A. (2013) Volunteering and social context: a case study of Romania, Rocznik Lubuski, vol. 39, nr. 1, p. 127-153, Available online: http://www.ltn.uz.zgora.pl/PDF/39_1.pdf
Gheondea-Eladi, A. (2013) Teoria raționalității în sociologie: un argument metodologic [Rational choice theory in sociology: a methodological argument], Revista Română de Sociologie, vol. 24, no. 2-3, p. 337-347, Available online: http://www.revistadesociologie.ro/pdf-uri/nr.3-4-2013/20-AEladi.pdf
Gheondea, A., Stanilă, G., Mihalache, F. (2011) Ocuparea neagricolă în Regiunile Sud-Muntenia și Sud-Vest Oltenia: Raport de cercetare [Non-agricultural occupations in South-Muntenia and South-West Oltenia Regions: Research report], Bucharest: Editura Expert, Available online: http://www.catalactica.org.ro/files/ocuparea_neagricola_in_regiunile_sud-muntenia_si_s.pdf
Gheondea-Eladi, A.(2011) A framework for social innovation identification: a case study. Revista Inovația Socială, vol. 3, no. 1, Available online: http://www.inovatiasociala.ro/articol/34/
co-author in: Cace, S., Preoteasa, A.M., Stănescu, S.M., Tomescu, C. (coord.) (2010) Legal și egal pe piata muncii pentru comunitatile de romi. Diagnoza factorilor care influențează nivelul de ocupare la populația de romi din România [Legal and equal on the labour market for the Roma communities. The diagnosis of influencing factors of the occupation level of Roma people in Romania], Report for the Soros Foundation Romania, available online: http://www.soros.ro/ro/program_articol.php?articol=251
Gheondea, A., Ilie, S., Lambru, M., Mihăilescu, A., Neguţ, A., Stanciu, M., Tomescu, C. (2010) Fenomene specifice de discriminare la locul de muncă: mobbing-ul [Particular phenomena of discrimination at the work place: mobbing], Revista Calitatea Vieții, no. 1-2, Available online: http://www.revistacalitateavietii.ro/2010/CV-1-2-2010/07.pdf
Voicu, B., Neguţ, A., Tufă, L., Gheondea, A. (2010) Dinamica publicațiilor sociologice ale ICCV: 1990-2009. O notă de cercetare [The dynamics of sociological publications of ICCV: 1990-2009], Revista Calitatea Vietii, no. 3-4, Available online: http://www.revistacalitateavietii.ro/2010/CV-3-4-2010/08.pdf
Gheondea-Eladi, A. (2009) Catalin Mamali’s presentation on Manifestoes and political genealogies - Historical experiments rooted in the Manifesto of Communist Party and the Civil Disobedience, Revista Inovația Socială, România, vol. 1, no. 2. Available online: http://www.inovatiasociala.ro/articol/65/