Filip Mihai Alexandrescu (ORCID: 0000-0002-3628-600X) is a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Quality of Life (RIQL), Romanian Academy. He was a key person in the Ermina project entitled “Environmental risks in mining areas - connecting expert assessments and social representations for a more efficient risk communication”. He has published environmental and urban sociological research in Organization and Environment, Cities, History of the Human Sciences and Land Use Policy. He is interested in research that connects lived experiences of environmental transformations with political economic processes through actor-network, spatial and social constructionist theories.