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Michał Wasiucionek is a Research Assistant at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest. He holds an MA in History from the University of Warsaw (2011) and received his PhD in History and Civilization (2016). From 2016 until 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the ERC grant Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe (LuxFaSS), hosted by New Europe College in Bucharest. In his research, his main focus is on regional and informal practices of power in Southeastern Europe, with particular attention on the place of the Danubian principalities within the Ottoman and Eastern European context. His publications include a monograph study, Ottomans and Eastern Europe: Borders and Political Patronage in the early Modern World (I.B. Tauris, 2019), as well as a number of contributions and articles focusing on Moldavian and Wallachian entanglements within a broader political, social and cultural world of the Ottoman ecumene.