Dr. Florin-Teodor Olariu is a senior researcher at the Department of Dialectology and Sociolinguistics, the A. Philippide Institute of Romanian Philology – the Iasi Branch of the Romanian Academy. He works at the priority project of the Romanian Academy The New Romanian Linguistic Atlas by Regions. Moldavia and Bukovina and coordinates the researches for The Audio-Visual Linguistic Atlas of Bukovina, a pilot-project for Romanian geolinguistics. Areas of competence: Romanian dialectology, sociolinguistics, geolinguistics and pragmalinguistics.