Email adina.dumitru@udc.es
Adina Dumitru
Researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of A Coruña (A Coruña, Spain). PhD in Psychology from the University of A Coruña (A Coruña, Spain). Master’s in Political Psychology as a Fulbright Junior Scholar at the University of Washington (Washington, United States). She was an assistant professor at the University of Timisoara (Timisoara, Romania) and a visiting researcher at the University of Surrey (Surrey, United Kingdom).
Her teaching and research focuses on the psychological determinants of healthy lifestyles, the dynamics of social innovation, and the development of indicators for the impact of nature-based solutions on social cohesion, empowerment and health.
EU-NETS: European Training for Energy Community Managers. A project that addresses the emerging topic of energy communities, with the aim of developing a new training pathway for managers and professionals who will work to create, develop and manage these new entities, which will play an important role in the energy and climate transition.
H2020 EnergyPROSPECTS. Proactive strategies and policies for the transformation of energy citizenship.
H2020 SMARTEES Social innovation modelling contributions for the realisation of the transition towards energy efficiency and sustainability.
FP7 GLAMURS Project. Green lifestyles, alternative models and the scaling up of regional sustainability. The project’s scientific coordinator adopts a temporal perspective to identify opportunities and obstacles to healthy lifestyles.
1- Transformative social innovation and (dis) empowerment 2019
F Avelino, JM Wittmayer, B Pel, P Weaver, A Dumitru, A Haxeltine, …
Technological Forecasting and Social Change 145, 195-206
N Frantzeskaki, T McPhearson, MJ Collier, D Kendal, H Bulkeley, …
BioScience 69 (6), 455-466
3- Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions 2020
B Pel, A Haxeltine, F Avelino, A Dumitru, R Kemp, T Bauler, I Kunze, …
Research policy 49 (8), 104080
YZ Eksioğlu, IE Scheffer, P Cardenas, J Knoll, F DiMario, G Ramsby, …
Neuron 16 (1), 77-87
A Ruepert, K Keizer, L Steg, F Maricchiolo, G Carrus, A Dumitru, RG Mira, …
Energy Research & Social Science 17, 59-70
6- Translocal empowerment in transformative social innovation networks 2020
F Avelino, A Dumitru, C Cipolla, I Kunze, J Wittmayer
European Planning Studies 28 (5), 955-977
Since 2025, member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency
Coordinator of the work on social indicators for the European Taskforce on Impact Assessment of nature-based solutions, and Co-editor of the European Commission’s expert report on this topic (2021).
Sustainable Urbanisation Expert for the European Environment Agency.
Board member and secretary of the International Association for Studies on the Person and the Environment.
Expert evaluator for the H2020 programme.
