Irina Georgescu is a habilitated associate professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. Her academic interests include fuzzy set theory, decision-making under uncertainty,  econometrics, risk analysis, and environmental and energy economics. She has authored or co-authored approximately 150 papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals. Her work combines theoretical and computational methods, including  fuzzy multicriteria decision-making, copula models, time series and panel econometrics, and machine learning techniques. She has applied these approaches to financial dependence, portfolio risk, sustainability, renewable energy, carbon emissions, ecological footprints, and circular economy assessment.