The prize has been awarded annually for the past 14 years by the Romanian Academy in collaboration with the Romanian Government and the League of Romanian Students Abroad to young Romanian researchers from the diaspora who have made a contribution in all areas of scientific research.
A former doctoral student in archaeology at CEREGE and IMBE (2017-2020) under the supervision of C. Morhange and V. Andrieu-Ponel, Alexandra Bivolaru is currently a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the University of Venice, where she is working on the geoarchaeology of the Venetian lagoon in collaboration with A. Veron and CEREGE.
He was awarded the prize for his work in geoarchaeology on archaeological sites in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and for his interdisciplinary research into the interaction between past societies and the environment in river-lagoon and coastal environments over the past 6,000 years.