28 April 2026
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) has once again made its mark among the world’s academic elite with the election of professor Alida Timar-Gabor, PhD as a member of the Academia Europaea, one of the leading Pan-European academic organisations.
“This accolade recognises the high-quality research conducted at Babeș-Bolyai University by our colleague, Alida Timar-Gabor, a two-time European Research Council (ERC) grant recipient (the ERC Starting Grant INTERTRAP – 678106 and ERC Consolidator Grant PROGRESS – 101043356), where the ERC grant competition is widely regarded as the most prominent and competitive in European exploratory research, and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Biotechnology and Nanoscience (ICIBNS) at Babeș-Bolyai University. Her election as a member of the Academia Europaea reinforces the contribution of the UBB academic community to national, European, and international developments in science,” opined the UBB rector, professor psych. Daniel David, PhD.
Established in 1988, the Academia Europaea counts over 5,000 members from all scientific fields, carefully selected following a thorough nomination and peer-review process. Romania is currently represented by 48 members coming from the country’s leading academic institutions, 11 of whom are affiliated with UBB, which further attests to the University’s standing as a hub of excellence in Romanian research.
Academia is structured into four main academic classes or divisions. The hard sciences group includes only nine members from our country, which makes the selection of professor Alida Timar-Gabor, PhD all the more noteworthy, as she is the first female researcher from Romania to be elected to this class within the Academia Europaea.
For more information on the members of the Academia Europaea, click here
www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/List_of_Members.
Tradition and Excellence with Culture-Science-Innovation since 1581
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) is the university with the most complex academic profile in the country (by its number of programmes and multicultural profile featuring three official academic languages: Romanian, Hungarian, and German), and with the oldest academic tradition in Romania (established 445 years ago – 1581), accounting for the largest academic community in the country (with a staff of more than 55,000 people, from 15 cities and 12 counties). Ever since its establishment, UBB has been one of the most prestigious and influential universities in Romania; for several years now, UBB has consistently ranked among the top 5% of the world’s universities (out of approximately 30,000), with an advanced academic infrastructure (e.g. RDI units integrated into European networks, up-to-date teaching laboratories integrating virtual/augmented/mixed reality through the UBB-EON-XR Centre, etc.). Recently (2021), following the international QS STAR audit, UBB was officially ranked as the first world-class university (QS*****) in Romania, and in 2020 UBB was included in the GUILD, the organisation of the most prestigious European world-class/research-intensive universities, it was awarded the European HR Award for Excellence, and as of 2021/2022 it is a member of the EUTOPIA alliance of European universities.
