Mara Sintejudeanu has a strong research background and nearly a decade of industry experience as a Senior Economist in a public teaching hospital, Business Manager, and Main Inspector at the National Agency for Fiscal Administration. She completed her PhD at the University of Galway in 2022. Her research focuses on governance structures and operations management in mandated hospital networks, with a particular interest in Social Capital theory and its applications in networks and supply chains.

Mara actively participates in national and international conferences to disseminate her research findings and was awarded the Best Paper Award for Young Scholars at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (2018). She has successfully secured research funding to support scholarly activities, including the Irish Research Council (IRC) postgraduate scholarship and TU RISE funding. Additionally, she has supervised Master's students to completion and has informally mentored PhD students.