Dr. Aurora Liiceanu is a Senior researcher in the Institute of Psychology from Romanian Academy and she is working as psychologist in the National Institute of Criminology. She graduated the Faculty of Psychology (University of Bucharest), followed by a Predoctoral Fellowship in Social Psychology (National Academy of Sciences -Washington DC) and a PhD in Psychology, in 1975 (University of Bucharest). She is a member of Association of Romanian Psychologists (ARP) and European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP). Dr. Liiceanu is also founding and advisory board member of Academic Society from Romania (SAR), founding member of Romanian Society of Cultural Psychology and member of The New York Academy of Sciences. At present, she is Co-director in a PhD Program for Romanian Candidates, Laval University, Canada and professor at the National School of Political Sciences and Adminstration, MA courses, Bucharest. From 2002 she was involved as national correspondent for Council of Europe in the integrated project: Responses to everyday violence in a democratic society. She worked as a national researcher in 7 European crosscultural teams (adolescence, conception of citizenship, women issues). She's experience include:

• Communication and social skills, Training for Union Trade Leaders
• Special Program for Medical Professionals:Information, Education, and Communication Module, USAID Fund for Romania
• Feminism in Romania, PHARE
• Special Program for Women Leaders: Gender and Development
• Special Program for Health Professionals : Communication techniques, USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and PROFIT Project for Romania
• Parliamentary School, SAR Program of Political Education, Consultant and trainer
• Training for interdisciplinary teams dealing with violence and drug users
• Cross-cultural study on loss and conflict in women (American vs Romanian women)
• Consultant for UNFPA on the project on Domestic Violence
• Romanian investigator of an European research team, "Nationalism , Ethnic Conflict and the Definition of Citizenship and Democracy in Eastern and Western European Countries".

Dr. Aurora Liiceanu has published 5 books, 26 chapters, 120 papers (in country and abroad).