Iulia is a third year graduate student in the EAPS department, studying chemical oceanography. Besides ballroom dancing, she is passionate about books, classical movies and traveling. She has been the President of the MIT BDC since fall 2019. She is originally from Romania and started dancing during her undergraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh. For Iulia, dancing is a time of relaxtion and self-discovery that she grew to love and to which she dedicates a lot of her free time.