Oana Sorescu-Iudean is a researcher at the Centre for Population Studies of the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Regensburg (2021), where she was a member of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies. Over the past decade, she has been closely involved with several projects integrating digital humanities approaches with East-Central European historical sources, spanning from historical demography to social and economic history, and is now a member of a COST action dealing with historical health inequalities. She has recently completed a postdoctoral project that provided a data-driven approach to studying the plague in 18th century Transylvania and was awarded a seed funding grant from the Volkswagen Stiftung as part of the seeFField initiative, with the help of which she will develop a larger project on housing and living in 18th-19th century ECE/SEE. Her current research focuses on wealth and health inequalities in early modern and modern Transylvania. She also aims to foster collaboration at ECR level in ECE/SEE to develop and implement larger scale, data-driven projects focusing on serial sources present throughout the former Habsburg Empire.
