Mălina Ciocea is currently Ad Interim Director, PhD School, SNSPA and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest (Romania). She is the coordinator of the CoDiPo (Communication, Discourse, Public Problems) Laboratory, Center for Research in Communication at SNSPA. She is habilitated in Communication Sciences and affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of SNSPA. Mălina Ciocea has coordinated and participated in research grants covering the topics of the Romanian diaspora in media and political discourse, public problems and media debates in the Romanian public sphere, identity and memory studies. She has published extensively on these topics.