Alina is an associate professor within the Money and Banking Department at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She gives lectures on topics like: Money, Credit Institutions, Capital Markets and Banking intermediation. Her research interests are related to topics on Crises Management, Resolution Mechanisms, Financial Stability issues, Moral hazard and Deposit guarantee funds. The results of Alina’s research were published in different international research journals and as chapters in books. The most representative paper is entitled Quantifying Recapitalization Fund Premium using Option Pricing Techniques, published in 2012 in the journal Economics Letters. The paper develops a formula for quantifying the premium a bank is expected to pay for a fund that provides recapitalization in order to allow orderly failure if the bank is in financial distress. In 2012, for 1 year, she was awarded a PostDoc Fellowship by the Scientific Exchange Programme (Sciex-NMSch), part of the Swiss Contribution to the New Member States (NMS) of the European Union, and she studied banking resolution and financial stability within the Department of Economics, University of Zurich.

At the same time, Alina is employed as an expert within the National Bank of Romania, International Relations Department. Her main duties are related to drafting specific documents on interdisciplinary issues regarding the relations of the central bank with international institutions and EU central banks, by liaising with similar departments of the Foreign Affairs and Public Finance ministries, developing of notes and internal procedures, and participation in and organization of different events on topics related to the responsibilities of the departments within the central bank. In 2025, for 6 months, Alina was employed as a Financial Stability Expert (ESCB/IO) in the Stress Test Modelling Division at the ECB, where she contributed to the ECB’s part of the 2025 EU‐wide stress test coordinated by the EBA. Her responsibilities included model‐based analyses, quality assurance of banks’ market risk submissions, and macroprudential impact assessments.