• President of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy/IAGA
• General Secretary of the European Geosciences Union (April 2012 – April 2016)
• President of the Division "Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics" (EMRP) of the European Geosciences Union (April 2007 – April 2011)

Mioara Mandea is currently Head of "Science Coordination" Departement, Strategy Directorate of Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (French Space Agency), Paris. Mioara Mandea has a broad international education and has worked in Romania, France, and Germany. She graduated in Engineering in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Bucharest before obtaining doctorates from the University of Bucharest in geophysics and geophysical prospecting in 1993 and from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in internal geophysics in 1996. In addition, she received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from the University Paris VII in 2001.

She worked with geosciences institutions and universities in Romania (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Bucharest), in France (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Germany (Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, the University of Braunschweig and University of Potsdam).

Mioara Mandea is currently Chair of the Outreach Committee of European Geosciences Union, where she previously served as General Secretary (2012 -2016) and President of the Division Earth Magnetism and Rock Physics (2007-2011). She was also General Secretary of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), President of the Geophysical Maps Commission of the Commission for the Geological Map of the World, and Chair of the Education Award Committee of AGU.

She has been granted the Van Straelen prize (French Geological Society), the Hepites Prize (Romanian Academy), Medal Slovak Academy of Sciences, AGU International Award, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, and Petrus Peregrinus Medal from EGU. She is Member of Academia Europea, Member of Academie Royale de Belgique, Member of Russian Academy of Science, and is also a Titular Member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists.

Mioara Mandea’s research interests mainly concern measuring, mapping, and understanding the multitude of magnetic fields encountered in near-Earth and near Earth-like planets. She has concentrated her work in some major directions, participating in the general effort of measuring Earth’s magnetic field from the ground to space, developing new tools to model the geomagnetic field and its secular variations (with a special emphasis on geomagnetic jerks), or using the geomagnetic information to determine physical properties in the deep Earth’s interior (with special studies on the lower mantle conductivity or motions at the core-mantle boundary). Her fields of research also include geopotential field mapping, on global or regional scales, with important implications for the understanding of rapid changes within the Earth’s system.

Mioara Mandea has published more than 255 papers (more than 100 being publications in ISI journals, the rest being contributions in further journals, books, and chapters in books, proceedings, and reports), and has been involved in organizing more than 50 workshops and conferences. She has also lead several multi-partner research projects or work packages within projects at the national and European levels. She has supervised 11 worldwide PhD students (France, Germany, US, Romania, Croatia, Algeria, Indonesia, and Portugal).