Alexandru Rusu is a lecturer PhD at the Faculty of Geography and Geology, Department of Geography. His area of expertise covers GIS, spatial analysis, spatial planning and economic geography. He was part of in a consistent number of EU funded grants implementation teams, mainly in the framework of the ESPON Programme –ESPON DB Phase 1&2, Functional Rural Areas in Romania, ESPON dissemination projects, but also in national research grants focusing on the problems of territorial accessibility. Other areas of research: military geography, transportation geography and epistemology of spatial sciences.

During the last 5 years, he has been in charge with the management of the Spatial Planning specialization and involved in teaching courses of introductory spatial analysis and GIS, statistics and project management. His role in the project is related to the data quality check of the indicators, advanced mapping and geo-statistical consultancy.