Additionally, he conducted research abroad, hosted by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris (1974 and 1978, with Pierre Chaunu and Jacques Le Goff), and Wolfson College, Oxford (1981–82).

In addition to his research at the Institute of South Eastern European Studies, Pippidi worked at the University of Bucharest from 1990, where he was appointed professor of medieval history in 1995.

In addition to his main activity as a medievalist, Pippidi became a founding member of the human rights organization Grupul pentru Dialog Social in 1990.

[3] He strongly advocated the preservation of Bucharest's architectural monuments, publishing a journal column and a two-volume popular scientific work on this issue.

His maternal grandfather was Nicolae Iorga, a historian, homme des lettres and national conservative politician murdered by the fascist Iron Guard in 1940.