Consultant
Free University Berlin; University of Münster
Florin Cristea is a PhD candidate and research associate in psychological and medical anthropology. His research focuses on understanding the moral worlds of individuals diagnosed with severe psychiatric disorders. He engaged with the social and clinical life-worlds of people with a lived experience of the psychiatric encounter in Romania, Tanzania, and Indonesia. Furthermore, Florin Cristea has previously worked on an international project for the Robert Koch Institute, that examined people’s responses to Risk Communication and Community Engagement in Germany, Singapore, Nigeria, and Guinea. In his current project, “Afflicted Minds. International knowledge flows and the psychiatric experience in Bali and Java,” he investigates emerging biomedical narratives in Indonesia and their influence on the emotional experience and the moral worlds of people diagnosed with a severe psychiatric disorder and their caretakers.