Professor of history at the University of Bucharest, Mirela-Luminița Murgescu engages the cultural dynamics of the 20th and 21st centuries through courses on memory, identity, education, and cinema. She was active in various projects focusing on teaching history and democratic civic education, including the Joint History Project. Her academic research in cultural history is driven by an enduring love for teaching, a vocation she embraces in her teaching with the passion for art, film, music, photography, and the developing presence of AI.