EDUCATION
‘Babeş-Bolyai’ University Cluj-Napoca, Ph.D. Geomorphology, 2003; ‘Babeş-Bolyai’ University Cluj-Napoca, M.Sc. Applied Geomorphology, 1996; West University of Timisoara, B.A. Geography, 1995.
CURRICULUM VITAE

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center of Geoinformation, University of Salzburg and Lecturer, Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Fulbright Scholar, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas; National Representative of Romania in the IGU Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems; Contact Person within the CEEPUS (Central European Exchange for University Studies) network ‘Applied Geoinformatics (CEE- GIS)’; National Representative of Romania in the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL).

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
Marie Curie Intra- European Fellowship; Occasional Lecturer Program Award; Fulbright Senior Fellowship; Ernst Mach Scholarship.

SELECTED RECENT SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Dragut, L. and Blaschke, T. Automated classification of landform elements using object-based image analysis, Geomorphology (accepted May 2006).

Luscier, J.D, Thompson, W.L, Wilson, J.M, Gorham, B.E, and Dragut, L.D. Using digital photographs and object- based image analysis to estimate percent ground cover in vegetation plots, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (accepted May 2006).

Cristea, V., Gafta, D., Baciu, C., Goia, I., Drăguţ, L. and Coroiu, I. (2003). Multidisciplinary assessment of the landscape development around the Cluj-Napoca city (Romania). In Multifunctional Landscapes: monitoring, diversity and management, edited by Brandt, J. and Vejre, H. Advances in Ecological Sciences 15. WIT Press, pp.271-285.

Schreiber, W., Drăguţ, L. and Man, T. (editors.)(2003) Landscape analysis in the Western side of the Transylvanian Plain. Cluj University Press, 135 pp. (in Romanian, with TOC and abstract in English).

Schreiber, W., Dragut, L. and Man, T. (2003) Landschaftsentwicklung in der westlichen Siebenbürger Heide (Rumänien). Würzburger Geographische Manuskripte 63: 145-152.