Ioana Cristea

Ioana Cristea is an Associate Professor at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania and a previous Fulbright Visiting Scholar at METRICS. She is trained as a clinical psychologist and has previously worked at the universities of Pisa and Padova, Italy. Her research focuses on critically appraising the efficacy of various psychological and pharmacological interventions for mental disorders, as well as well the role of financial and non-financial conflicts of interest. More generally, her work includes a focus on issues related to transparency, rigor, and waste in clinical research and in psychological research more generally, using both quantitative and mixed approaches.