Dr. Catalina Iordache

Before joining academia, Catalina worked as a project manager in the cultural field with a community arts organisation based in Edinburgh. After her move to Brussels in 2013, she pursued the international MSc in Communication Studies at the VUB. Catalina also holds a BA in International Relations, European Studies from the University of Bucharest.

Catalina joined imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2014, and obtained her PhD on the transnational flow of media content in the online environment in 2022. Her main areas of expertise are audiovisual production and distribution, streaming services, public service media, European media policy, and comparative analysis. During her time at SMIT, she has also conducted research on the topics of media literacy, digital literacy and e-inclusion, and acted as Teaching Assistant for the Bachelor in Social Sciences programme.

Catalina is currently conducting postdoctoral research on the platformisation of public service media in the project PSM-AP: Public Service Media in the Age of Platforms. Since 2022, she is also a Guest Professor in the VUB Department of Communication Sciences, previously as co-titular of the course Media, Culture and Globalisation Theories, and currently co-titular of the course European Media Markets, in the Digital Media in Europe Master’s programme.