About Me

I am Vlad Burtăverde, PhD, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, evolutionary psychologist and consultant. I divide my professional life between scientific research, teaching, psychological counseling and career consulting. 

My Services

Having a doctorate in personality psychology, studying the nature of human behavior and romantic relationships for the past 10 years, I practice couple psychotherapy from the perspective of integrative psychotherapy and evolutionary psychology. In the therapeutic approach, I work with the mating principles that have been proven to lead to a happy couple relationship: mate value, mating effort, reproductive effort, positive assortative mating and mate retention tactics.
Couple Psychotherapy
For the past 10 years I have been constantly involved in career development consulting projects for various private and public organizations. Among the services I offered we can find: development and validation of employee performance evaluation systems, the identification of employees with high potential (talent management), job analysis, organizational diagnosis. For more info, visit: www.evolutionary-consulting.ro
Consulting
1. What are your patterns in choosing a partner. What makes you attracted to a certain type of partner
2. How do I function in everyday life. Who I really am. What are my resources and how can I use them?
3. How do we deal with suffering and emotional pain? What are my unmet emotional needs?
4. How to attract the most suitable partners for us? How do we increase our chances of finding a partner? 5. Why do we worry so much? How to tame our anxiety?
Workshops and webinars

World Conference on Personality 2019

"Mielu Zlate" Conference, 2018

Some important moments in my career

2013: I started working as a psychologist and became a member of the Romanian College of Psychologists

2013: I founded the consulting agency in psychology and human resources NEO Assessment & Research

2014: I became a teaching assistant and researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest.

2015: I started working as a scientific reviewer for international scientific journals such as the Journal of Risk Research, Personality and Individual Differences, Psychological Reports, Accident Analysis & Prevention.

2015: I became a member of international psychology associations such as: Association for research in Personality, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, European Association of Personality Psychology, World Association for Personality Psychology.

2016: I published the Handbook of Personality Psychology at Trei Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania.

2016: I started collaborating with the research laboratory in Personality Psychology at the University of Groningen under the coordination of Prof. Boele De Raad.

2017: I completed my doctoral studies at the University of Bucharest.

2017: I started working as an associate lecturer at SNSPA, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Psychology.

2018: I became an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest.

2018: I completed my professional training in integrative psychotherapy at the Romanian Institute of Integrative Psychotherapy.

2019: I started working as an associate lecturer at the “Mihai Viteazul” National Academy of Information.

2019: I started the collaboration with the laboratory of Personality, Relationships and Evolutionary Psychology coordinated by Prof. Peter K. Jonason at the University of Padua.

2020: I won through a public competition the postdoctoral research project entitled: Life-history strategies and aggressive driving. An integrative framework for assessing and managing aggressive driving, funded by UEFISCI.

2020: I started working as an associate editor for the scientific journal Frontiers in Psychology – Evolutionary Psychology.

2021: I became an Associate Professor  at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest.

2021: I started to collaborate with the research laboratory in Evolutionary Psychology at Oakland University, Michigan, coordinated by Prof. Todd. K. Shackelford.

2021: I founded the Association of Personality and Evolutionary Psychology.

2022: I founded Evolutionary-consulting, a consulting agency in the field of human capital

2022: I founded HelloMe, a psychology services hub

2023: I founded the Laboratory of Personality and Evolutionary Psychology, University of Bucharest

2023: I published the first book chapter about the mating strategies of dark personalities in the Oxford of Human Mating, edited by D.M. Buss. 

2023: I sustained the Habilitation thesis entitled Individual differences in personality. Predictors of adaptive and maladaptive behavior, which offers the possibility to be an advisor for doctoral students. 

Teaching, doing research, consulting

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