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Valeska Bopp-Filimonov (* 1977 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany) is a German scholar of Romanian Studies and a junior professor for Romance Studies with a focus on Romanian Studies at University of Jena.

Life
Bopp-Filimonov studied Cultural Studies, German Studies, Communication Studies and Media Studies at Leipzig University. Alongside this she started studying French Studies, Romanian Studies and East European Studies. In 2012 she obtained her PhD at Leipzig University's Faculty of History, Art and Area Studies. Her dissertation was honored by the Fritz and Helga Exner Foundation and was titled "Erinnerungen an die 'Nicht-Zeit'. Das sozialistische Rumänien im biographisch-zeitgeschichtlichen Gedächtnis der Nachwendezeit". 2005–2007 Bopp-Filimonov worked as a language lecturer as part of Robert Bosch Stiftung's lecturers' program at Perm State University and at the Faculty of History in Bucharest. 2008–2012 was a research assistant at the chair for contemporary history at RWTH Aachen University and as a freelancer for the project "'Begriffsgeschichte' als Dekonstruktion gesellschaftlicher und politischer Kommunikation in Rumänien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert" in collaboration with West University of Timișoara. 2010–2017 Bopp-Filimonov began working as an academic fellow for the Studienstiftung in Bonn and Berlin. Since 2017 she is a junior professor for Romance Studies with a focus on Romanian Studies at Jena University.