Dr. Robert D. Reisz
Str. Electronicii nr.19 ap.6
1900 Timisoara
Romania
Tel: 0040 56 222373
Str Cuza Voda no.6
1800 Lugoj
Romania

Tel: 0040 56 351753
Mobil: 0040 722 407809
E-mail: reisz@info.uvt.ro
rdreisz@hotmail.com

Personal Information

•  Marital status: married, two children
•  Nationality: Romanian
•  Age: 38
•  Place of Birth: Lugoj, Romania
•  Date of Birth: 13.11.1964
•  Spoken Languages: Romanian, English, German, Hungarian

Summary of qualifications

2000 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics
•  Timisoara, Romania
•  Ph.D. in Mathematics, specialisation Information Sciences, thesis "Mathematical models using stochastic automata over infinite words", advisor Prof.Dr. Stefan Maruster

1993 C.H.E.R. (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers)
•  Diplomas of the European Higher Education Advanced Training Course

1989 C.T.C.E. (Regional Center for Computer Science)
•  Sibiu, Romania
•  Post Graduate Diploma in System Engineering

1988 I.C.I. (Central Institute for Computer Science)
•  Bucharest, Romania
•  Post Graduate Diploma in Data Base Management

1988 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics
•  Timisoara, Romania
•  Degree in Mathematics, specialisation Computer Science

Education

1984 - 1988 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics
•  Timisoara, Romania
•  Studies of Mathematics and Computer Science

1988 I.C.I. (Central Institute for Computer Science)
•  Bucharest, Romania
•  Post Graduate Courses in Data Base Management

1989 C.T.C.E. (Regional Center for Computer Science)
•  Sibiu, Romania
•  Post Graduate Courses in System Engineering

1992 - 1993 C.H.E.R. (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers)
•  European Higher Education Advanced Training Course including
March 1992 Processes and structures in Higher Education , Danbury Park, United Kingdom
May 1992 Steering of Higher Education Systems , Budapest, Hungary
September 1992 Economic Aspects of Higher Education , Dijon, France
November 1992 Higher Education and Work in Europe , Kassel, Germany
March 1993 Institutional Decision Making and Research , Enschede, The Netherlands
May 1993 Fields of Knowledge, Teaching and Learning , Praga, Czech Republic
August 1993 Management of Higher Education Institutions , Turku, Finland

1994 - 1995 University of Kassel
•  Kassel, Germany
•  Further Studies in Economical Sciences

1994 - 1996 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics
•  Timisoara, Romania
•  Ph.D.Studies in the Theory of Probabilities and Computer Science, advisor Prof.dr. Viorel Radu and Prof.dr. Stefan Maruster

1998 Oracle Romania/ASE Center of Excellence
•  Bucharest, Romania
•  DB8A - Oracle 8: Database Administration course

Professional experience

1988 - 1990 IUPS "9 Mai" (Lugoj, Romania)
•  Computer Scientist

1990 - 1996 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Assistent Lecturer at the Chair for "Computer Systems and Data Structures", Department of Computer Science

1992 - 1994 Hungarian Institute for Educational Research (Budapest, Hungary)
•  Visiting Researcher and member of the editorial board of Educatio the review of the HIER

1993 - 1996 Research Unit Network for Central and Eastern European Higher Education
•  Coordinator for Romania

1994 - 1995 Centre for Higher Education and Work (Kassel, Germany)
•  DAAD one-year Research Scholarship

1995 - 1996 Association for Empirical Studies (Kassel, Germany)
•  Senior Researcher

1996 - 2002 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Lecturer at the Chair for "Computer Systems and Data Structures", Department of Computer Science

1998 - 2000 Prospecta Institute (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Director of the Social Research Department

1999 - 2000 New Europe College (Bucharest, Romania) rector: Prof.Dr. Andrei Plesu
•  NEC Research Fellow

1999 - 2000 Test Computer Technology (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Director for Marketing Research

2000 Collegium Helveticum, ETH (Zurich, Switzerland)
•  Visiting Researcher, on invitation from Prof.Dr. Helga Nowotny

2000 - present RD Profil Consult (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Director for Marketing Research and Statistics

2001 Romanian Journal of Political Science (Bucharest, Romania)
•  Member of the editorial board

2001 Jozsef Attila Tudomany Egyetem (Szeged, Hungary)
•  Visiting Researcher

2000 - present Analele Universitatii din Timisoara (Timisoara, Romania)

•  Reviewer for Information Sciences

2002 - 2003 University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Director of the Postgraduate programm "Advanced Data Base Environments", Department of Computer Science

2002 - present University of Timisoara/Faculty of Mathematics (Timisoara, Romania)
•  Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science

2002 - present Martin Luther Universitat Hall Wittenberg/Institut fur Hochschulforschung (Wittenberg, Germany)
•  Research Fellow

Selected papers and publications

•  Computer aided neurologic diagnosis , Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, 1990, with Daniela Reisz.
•  Private higher education. Romania , Educatio 2/1992, Budapest.
•  The current status of scholarships in Romania , HIER 1992, Budapest.
•  The current status of fees in Romania , HIER 1992, Budapest.
•  Unemployment and readjustment , Educatio 1/1993, Budapest.
•  Higher education in minority languages in Romania. Positions of the political parties , HIER 1993, Budapest.
•  The third expansion of the Romanian higher education system , HIER 1993, Budapest.
•  Preliminaries to a model of the higher education system , HIER 1994, Budapest
•  Curricular patterns before and after the Romanian Revolution , European Journal of Education 3/1994.
•  The Generation Gap. Academics in Romania , Sfera Politicii 20/1994, Bucharest.
•  Disciplines. A Mathematical Model , Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, 1994
•  Romanian higher education in transition , Educatio 3/1994
•  Systeme de controle/decision en psychologie base sur des reseaux neuronaux a logique vague, Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, 1996, with Gheorghe Petrov
•  A possible mathematical model of intercultural education , Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, 1996 with Gheorghe Petrov
•  Private higher education in Romania. A second look , Tertiary Education And Management Vol3, No.1, March 1997
•  Academic property and the market in Romania , Higher Education in Europe, CEPES UNESCO, No.2, 1998
•  Probabilistic automata over infinite words , Analele Universitatii din Timisoara, 1999
•  Decomposition theorems for probabilistic automata over infinite objects , Informatica, Vilnius, Vol.10, no.4, 1999
•  Emigration and mobility, Romanian Journal of Society and Politics No.1, Bucharest, 2001
•  Academic ideologies of emigration in Romania, Journal of Applied Psychology, year 4., no.2, Timisoara, 2002
•  The Hungarian university in Romania. Two summer month in '98, Teleki Intezet Allapitvany, Budapesta, 2002
•  Hochschulpolitik und Hochschulentwicklung in Rumänien zwischen 1990 und 2000, HoF Arbeitsberichte, Institut für Hochschulforschung, "Martin Luther" Universität Halle Wittenberg, 1/2003.
•  Public policy for private higher education in Central and Eastern Europe. Conceptual clarifications, statistical evidence, open questions, HoF Arbeitsberichte, Institut für Hochschulforschung, "Martin Luther" Universität Halle Wittenberg, 2/2003.
•  Isomorphism, conflict and creativity. Higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, Education, Budapest (accepted for publication)
•  Hochschulautonomie in Rumänien zwischen 1990 und 2000, die hochschule, Halle-Wittenberg (accepted for publication)

Books and Contributions to Books

•  ***, Education for the transition. Part III. Higher Education Policy in Central and Eastern Europe (Country Reports) , Budapest, Civic Education Project, March 1997 (chapter 6. Romania by Robert D. Reisz)
•  Barbara M. Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Robert D. Reisz, Wolfgang Steube, Ulrich Teichler, Integrating Europe through Co-operation among Universities , London, Jessica Kingsleys, September 1997 (Higher Education Policy Series no.43)
•  ***, Research at Central and East European Universities, Jagellonian University Press Krakow, Poland, 1997 chapter The development of student/staff ratios in Romanian higher education.
•  Ioan Despi, Gheorghe Petrov, Robert D. Reisz, Aurel Stepan, Teoria generala a bazelor de date (General theory of data bases), Editura Mirton, Timisoara, 1998.
•  ***, Higher education financing in a chanaging environment. Balacing autonomy and accountability, Conseil de l'Europe, Paris, Legislative reform programme for higher education and research, 1998 (chapter "The West University of Timisoara. Institutional case study")
•  ***, NEC Yearbook, 1999 - 2000 , chapter Opinions of Romanian academics on emigration, Editura Humanitas, Bucharest, 2000.
•  Dorian Branea (ed.), Civic Participation and Accountability, The Third Europe Foundation, Editura Brumar, Timisoara, 2001.
•  Dorian Branea, Alin Gavreliuc, Robert D. Reisz, Regional Cooperation and Identity , The Third Europe Foundation, Editura Brumar, Timisoara, 2002 (provisional title, to be published).
•  Ljubisa Mitrovic, Dragoljub B. Dordevic, Dragan Todorovic (ed.), Cultural and ethnic identities in the process of globalisation and regionalization of the Balkans , Center for Balkan Studies, Nis, 2002 (chapter "Cross-border cooperation and regional identities in the Balkans", by Dana Gavreliuc, Daniela Reisz, Alin Gavreliuc and Robert Reisz)
•  Robert D. Reisz , Modele stochastice pentru stiintele sociale (Stochastic models for the social sciences) , Editura Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara, 2002.
•  Gabriele Gorzka (Hg.), Transformation der Wissenschaftenin Mittel- und OsteuropaPolen . Rumänien . Russland . Slowakei . Tschechien . Ungarn , Kassel University Press, 2003, (chapter "Hochschulbildung in Rumänien nach 1990" by Robert D. Reisz)

Citations (selected)

•  Janos Setenyi (1992) Maganfelsooktatas es privatizacio, Educatio 2/1992, refers to Reisz, R.D. (1992) Maganegyetemek. Romania, Educatio 2/1992, Budapest.
•  Jan Sadlak (1994) The Emergence of a Diversified System: the State/private Predicament in Transforming Higher Education in Romania, European Journal of Education, Volume 29, No.1, 1994 refers to Cocos, O., Constantinescu, R., Psatta, S., Reisz, R.D. (1993) A scenario for the development of Romanian higher education, lucrare prezentata la cursul CHER.
•  David Robertson (1998) The Emerging Political Economy of Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, vol.23, no.2 refers to Reisz, R. D. (1997) Private higher education in Romania. A second look. Tertiary Education and Management, 3 (1).
•  Philip G. Altbach (1999) Private Prometheus: Private higher education and development in the 21 st Century (Greenwald Press, Westpost Conn.) refers to Reisz, R. D. (1997) Private higher education in Romania. A second look. Tertiary Education and Management, 3 (1).
•  Yoshikazu Ogawa (1999) Select bibliography of private higher education (Greenwald Press, Westport, Conn.) refers to Reisz, R. D. (1997) Private higher education in Romania. A second look. Tertiary Education and Management, 3 (1).
•  Bogomir Mihevc (1999) Visoko solstvo in izzivi regionalizacije, Sodobno Pedagogiko, Ljubljana, Slovenia refers to Barbara M. Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Robert D. Reisz, Wolfgang Steube, Ulrich Teichler, Integrating Europe through Co-operation among Universities , London, Jessica Kingsleys, September 1997 (Higher Education Policy Series no.43)
•  Bogomir Mihevc (1999) Prispevek k repertuarju univerze za drugo tisokletje, Zbornik: Univerza Plese Avtonomno? Ljubjana, Slovenia refers to Barbara M. Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Robert D. Reisz, Wolfgang Steube, Ulrich Teichler, Integrating Europe through Co-operation among Universities , London, Jessica Kingsleys, September 1997 (Higher Education Policy Series no.43)
•  Val Halstead (2001) Eucation in Europe (Thematic Network on Teacher Education in Europe Electronic Journal, Middlesex University London) refers to Barbara M. Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Robert D. Reisz, Wolfgang Steube, Ulrich Teichler, Integrating Europe through Co-operation among Universities , London, Jessica Kingsleys, September 1997 (Higher Education Policy Series no.43)
•  Darwin Hendel, Darrel Lewis, Halil Dundar (2002) Private higher education in developing and transition countries. Lucrare prezentata la 2002 Convention of the European Association for Institutional Research, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2002. refers to Reisz, R. D. (1997) Private higher education in Romania. A second look. Tertiary Education and Management, 3 (1).
•  Ulrich Teichler, Jean Gordon (2001) Mobility and Co-operation in Education - Recent Experiences in Europe, European Journal of Education, December, 2001 refers to Barbara M. Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Robert D. Reisz, Wolfgang Steube, Ulrich Teichler, Integrating Europe through Co-operation among Universities , London, Jessica Kingsleys, September 1997 (Higher Education Policy Series no.43)
•  Kurt Jurgen Maass (2002) Bildung und Wissenschaft als Teil de Aussenkulturpolitik, Institut fur Sozialwissenschaften, Universitat Stuttgart refers to Barbara M. Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Robert D. Reisz, Wolfgang Steube, Ulrich Teichler, Integrating Europe through Co-operation among Universities , London, Jessica Kingsleys, September 1997 (Higher Education Policy Series no.43)

Scientific Conferences

•  1993 International seminar for higher education sociology organised by the University of Timisoara and the Asociation of Sociology Students from Timisoara, 6-8 May 1993 papers on Market regulation in higher education and Financing higher education
•  1993 15th Annual EAIR (European Association of Institutional Researchers) Forum, Turku, Finland, paper on Private higher education in Romania. a case study .
•  1993 Annual Conference, Society for Research into Higher Education & University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, paper on Curricular patterns in Romanian higher education before and after the change .
•  1994 16th Annual EAIR (European Association of Institutional Researchers) Forum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, accepted paper on The Generation Gap.Academics in Romania .
•  1994 CHER Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, accepted paper on Preliminaries to a model of the higher education system .
•  1995 Roundtable "Berufsbild der Lehrenden und Forschenden an Hochschulen" (Professional portrait of teachers and researchers in higher education institutions) organised by the Centre for Higher Education and Work, Kassel, Germany in Bonn, 20-21 February 1995
•  1996 18th Annual EAIR (European Association of Institutional Researchers) Forum, Budapest, Hungary, paper on Romanian private higher education. A second look .
•  1996 18th Annual EAIR (European Association of Institutional Researchers) Forum, Budapest, Hungary, panel on Restructuring higher education in different environments .
•  1996 International seminar "Transition in the social sciences: an evaluation of the needs of Central and East European Universities" organised by the Research Centre for Social Sciences, West University Timisoara and the Civic Education Project, November, the 2nd, 1996
•  1997 " Zilele Academice Timisene" Conference Timisoara, Romania, Computer Science Simposion, paper on A decomposition theorem for probabilistic Buchi automata
•  1997 International Conference "Research at Central and East European Universities" Krakow, Poland, paper on Development of student/staff ratio in Romanian higher education
•  1998 " 50 de ani de la infiintarea Facultatii de Matematica" Conference, Timisoara, Romania, paper on Probabilistic automata over infinite words - a characterisation theorem.
•  1999 " Zilele Academice Timisene" Conference Timisoara, Romania, Computer Science Simposion, paper on Stochastic properties of probabilistic Buchi automata
•  2000 Third Budapest Winter School, Doing, Collegium Budapest
•  2000 Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, Individual conference "Opinions of Romanian academics on emigration"
•  2000 1 st Annual Conference of the Romanian Society of Political Sciences, SRSP, paper on Emigration ideology in the Romanian academic field.
•  2001 10 th International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, invited speaker on Particularities of mathematical modelling using probabilistic automata over infinite words.
•  2001 2 nd Annual Conference of the Romanian Society of Political Sciences, SRSP, paper on The Observatory for DKMT Regional and Euroregional Policies. An exercise in civil society intervention.
•  2002 "Cultural and Ethnic Identities in the Process of Globalization and Regionalization of the Balkans", Nis, Yugoslavia, paper on Cross-border cooperation and regional identities in the Balkans, with Dana Gavreliuc, Alin Gavreliuc and Daniela Reisz
•  2002 16 th Congress of the International Association for Cross Cultural Psychology, Yogyakarta, Indonezia, paper on Regional Identities in the Balkans , with Alin Gavreliuc.
•  2002 Higher Education and its social environment, Laszlo Teleki Institute, Budapest, Hungary, invited speaker, paper on The Hungarian university in Romania. Two month in the summer of '98 .
•  2002 22 nd EAIR Forum Prague, paper on Emigration and mobility in the Romanian higher education sector
•  2002 3 rd Annual Conference of the Romanian Society of Political Science, SRSP, Cluj, Romania, paper on Does there exist a European model of higher education?
•  2002 Conference of the Association DAAD Alumni, paper on "Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache an rumänischen Universitäten", Timisoara, Romania.
•  2003 " Hungarian higher education outside the Hungarian borders " conference, organized by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research, Budapest, Hungary, paper on "Hungarian higher education in Romania ".
•  2003 Round table discussion " Joining the club: the Central European access countries in the referendum-period - European integration of minds" organized by the Collegium Budapest, Hungary.
•  2003 International Seminar "European Research Institutions Networking" organized by the Institute of Comparative Law, Belgrade, invited presider of the round table discussion on "The Catalyst function of European education and research and the foundation of an International Academic Network for European Integration", Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

Research contracts, consulting and expert activities

•  1992 - 1994 Different consulting activities in problems of higher education structures at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Timisoara.
•  1993 - present Member of the advisory board of the "Joint East European Center for Democratic Education and Governance" foundation.
•  1993 - 1995 Expert adviser on education of the Liberal Party 93.
•  1994 The political program of the Liberal Party for the reform of the Romanian higher education system.
•  1994 Curriculum development at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Timisoara.
•  1994 - 1995 Design of a graduate survey for the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Timisoara.
•  1994 - 1995 Expert adviser for Romania of the Otto Benecke Foundation, Bonn.
•  1995 An evaluation of the first phase of the TEMPUS program of the European Communities on contract with the Commision of European Communities, DG XXII. (with Barbara Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Wolfgang Steube and Ulrich Teichler contracted by the AES, Kassel and the Centre for Higher Eduation and Work, Kassel)
•  1996 An evaluation of the first two years of the second phase of the TEMPUS program of the European Communities on contract with the Commision of European Communities, DG XXII. (with Barbara Kehm, Friedhelm Maiworm, Albert Over, Wolfgang Steube and Ulrich Teichler contracted by AES, Kassel and the Centre for Higher Eduation and Work, Kassel)
•  1996 A questionnaire development component for Delphi, contracted by AES, Kassel
•  1996 Country report on Romania for the Regional Needs Assessment Project (Educating for the Transition: A Needs Assessment Study of Social Science Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe) of the Civic Education Project.
•  1997 Case study on the financial resources of a Romanian university, for the Council of Europe, Paris.
•  1998 Special problems of Petri nets, languages, graphs and the search of strings in texts, research contract with CNCSU (National Council for University Scientific Research).
•  1998 The development and consolidation of advanced studies and Ph.D. programs in distributed computer science with aplications in the social sciences and economics, research contract with CNCSU.
•  1998 Intelligent media for scientific software, research contract with the World Bank.
•  1998 Content analysis of the Romanian central press "Reflections of the problem of creation of a Hungarian language university in Romania" for the Prospecta Institute.
with Laura Maruster)
•  1998 Presentation booklet "50 Years since the foundation of the Faculty of Mathematics" for the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Timisoara, Romania. (with Lucian Cucu, Daniel Pop and Horia Popa)
•  1998 Sample survey "Opinions of the population of Timisoara on Timis county Members of Parliament" for the Pro Democratia Association and the Prospecta Institute (with Laura Maruster)
•  1999 Sample survey and audience rating for "Analog SA" Cable TV company and the Prospecta Institute.
•  1999 Sample survey "Opinion of the population of Timisoara on the activity of the local administration" for the "Prima ora" newspaper and the Prospecta Institute.
•  1999 Promotion activity design and implementation for "Analog SA" Cable TV company and the Prospecta Institute.
•  1999 - present Referee for research proposals in sociology for DAAD, Romania.
•  2000 Sample survey "Local elections in Timisoara, Lugoj, Sannicolau Mare, Jimbolia, Buzias and Deta" for CrestaPrint S.R.L. and the Prospecta Institute
•  2000 Sample survey and audience rating for "Analog SA" Cable TV company and the Prospecta Institute.
•  2000 Sample survey "Opinions of Romanian academics upon emigration" for the New Europe College, Bucharest
•  2000 Interviewed educational expert for the CEP (Civic Education Project) evaluation study.
•  2001 Evaluation report "Romanian private higher education" for the László Teleki Alapitvány Magyar Külügyi Intézet , Budapest.
•  2001 Member of the " The Citizen Observatory For DKMT Regional Policies And Practices" a think tank of the DKMT Euroregion.
•  2001 Sample survey on "Euroregional cooperation" in Banat (Romania) and Voivodina (Serbia) for The Third Europe Foundation.
•  2001 Sample survey "Customer satisfaction" for PROFI Romania S.R.L. and CrestaPrint S.R.L.
•  2001 Marketing research "The regional market for roofing tiles" for Econometrica S.R.L.
•  2002 "Managerial university - Service University - Extended University - Entrepreneurial University" for the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research.
•  2002 "Study for the possibilities of Accomplishing the Structural Changes Resulting from the Bologna Declaration in Romania" for the Hungarian Institute for Educational Research.
•  2002 "Cultural consumption in the Arad county", sample survey for the Arad County Cultural Council.
•  2002 Sample survey "Customer satisfaction" for PROFI Romania S.R.L. in Timisoara, Cluj, Brasov and Sf. Gheorghe.
•  2002-2003 "Public policy for private higher education" for the Institut für Hochschulforschung, Martin Luther Universität Halle Wittenberg.
•  2003 "Hochschulpolitik und Hochschulentwicklung in Rumänien zwischen 1990 und 2000" for the Institut für Hochschulforschung, Martin Luther Universität Halle Wittenberg.
•  2003 Condominium associations as organizations of the civil society, for the Community Habitat Foundation.
•  2003 Sample survey "Consumer satisfaction at the Beer Festival in Timisoara" for Profil Communication.
•  2003 Sample survey "Consumer behavior in Baia Mare" for PROFI Romania S.R.L.
•  2003 Data collection on education and economy, 1950 - 2000 and a study of data comparability for the Institut für Hochschulforschung, Martin Luther Universität Halle Wittenberg.

Professional memberships

1993 - present , member of the the Romanian Society of Mathematical Sciences
1993 - 1995 and 2002 - 2003 , member of EAIR (European Association of Institutional Researchers).
1994 - 1998 , member of CHER (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers)
1998 - present , member of the OAI (Oracle Academic Initiative)
2000 - present, member of the SRSP (Romanian Society of Political Sciences) between 2001 and 2002 censor.

Interests and activities

Empirical Studies, Statistical Evaluation, Data Analysis and Political Analysis of Higher Education Systems and other Public Policy issues, Comparative Studies in Higher Education and Public Policy, Statistical Models, Stochastic Automata, Infinite Processes and Infinite Words, Data Base Management.

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