Associate professor Alexandru Nicolae, Vice-dean at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, researcher at the “Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics and academic coordinator of the Bucharest University Press, was elected as full member of the Academia Europaea, Humanities class, within the Linguistic Studies section.
His profile on the Academia Europaea platform is available here.
The welcoming ceremony of the new members took place at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, within the annual Building Bridges 2026 conference, organized between 12 – 16th of October 2026.
“I am deeply grateful and the same time overwhelmed by the honor of having been welcomed as full member of Academia Europaea, class of Humanities, the Linguistic Studies section”, said associate professor Alexandru Nicolae.
The new members were greeted by the President of the Academia Europaea, professor Donald B. Dingwell.
During the event, the new members of the Humanity and Arts class had the opportunity to present their activity. Associate professor Alexandru Nicolae held a presentation titled “Romanian from a Comparative Perspective”.
His academic activity and contributions have constantly received acknowledgment through important prizes and distinctions. In 2023, associate professor Alexandru Nicolae won the Grand Prize of the Senate of the University of Bucharest for the “Best Master’s Dissertation”, with a paper on “Nouns with genus alternans in Romanian language”, authored by Vlad Jipa and coordinated by Martin Maiden and Alexandru Nicolae.
In 2022, professor Marian Preda, Rector of the University of Bucharest, offered him a distinction for his contribution to the strategical development of research-innovation activity (2022) and for consolidating the position of the University of Bucharest in international rankings in the field of research. In 2019, associate professor Alexandru Nicolae won the Grand prize of the Senate of the University of Bucharest as “Author of the Year” for his author’s monograph “Word Order and Parameter Change in Romanian. A comparative Romance Perspective”. In 2012, he received the Prize of the “Bogdan Petriceicu-Hașdeu” Romanian Academy for a collective work – “Basic Grammar of the Romanian language”, supervised by Gabriela Pană Dindelegan.
Academia Europaea is a pan European academy founded in 1988, uniting researchers in all fields: sciences, letters, Socials Sciences and Humanities, counting more than 5000 members, among which numerous Nobel prize winners. Its mission is to promote research and education across Europe, to support interdisciplinary and international collaboration, and provide expertise for public policymaking and European institutions.
The election of associate professor Alexandru Nicolae as full member of the Academia Europaea confirms the impact of Romanian linguistic research in the international context and consolidates the prestige of the University of Bucharest in the European academic activity.
More information about Academia Europaea is available here.
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