Catalina joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in November 2009 as an associate professor. In November of 2012 she was appointed as the dean of faculty, thereby ending her directorship of the research area, which she took over in September 2010. Previously she was an assistant professor of Decision Sciences at London Business School. Catalina received her PhD and MS in Operations Research from Cornell University, in 2002 and 2000 respectively. She also holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest. Catalina's research focuses on the design, analysis, and application of statistical models and methods for managerial decision making. She has worked on three different areas: demand modeling and forecasting for revenue management, statistical models for credit risk, and methodologies for correlated binary and survival data with biostatistical applications. She teaches MBA and EMBA courses on Managerial Statistics and Operations Management, and PhD seminars on introductory and advanced Statistical Research Methods.