Barbara Barysz (Philosophy, IFiS PAN) – from 2019 to 2021
Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Culture and Politics Group at IFiS PAN. Barbara is a graduate of the doctoral program at the Graduate School for Social Research. Member of the Center for Psychoanalytic Thought and secretary of the editorial board of the journal “wunderBlock. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy.” She is involved in the application of psychoanalytic tools to the analysis of political discourses.
Agata Bielińska (Philosophy, IFiS PAN) – from 2023 to 2024
Agata is a researcher in the Center for Psychoanalytic Thought at IFiS. She is preparing a dissertation on the (post)psychoanalytic philosophy of love. Her research interests include contemporary philosophy of the subject and the philosophical implications of psychoanalytic theory. Agata is a co-editor of the academic journal „wunderBlock: Psychoanaliza i Filozofia” (wunderBlock: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy). Currently, she is co-editing a collection of essays with Adam Lipszyc, Space in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis in Space (Routledge, London, forthcoming).
Marta Chrustowicz (Psychology, IP PAN) – from 2023 to 2024
Marta graduated from The Maria Grzegorzewska University with a BA in Special Education (2015), MA in Psychology (2019), and from the University of Warsaw with an MA in Cognitive Science (2020). During her undergraduate studies, she completed her Erasmus+ exchange at the University of Palermo (2017/18). She is interested in using neuromodulation methods to improve social brain activity. As a part of her MA, she examined the impact of pSTS stimulation on social perception in patients with schizophrenia. Her current research project focuses on the issue of the impact of loneliness on neurophysiological correlates associated with social interaction processing and examines the possibility of increasing the effectiveness of top-down emotion regulation strategies in lonely individuals via stimulation of the prefrontal areas. Marta is also a fan of music and handicraft – in her spare time, she paints, sings, learns to play the violin, and decorates furniture.
Helen Grela (Philosophy, IFiS PAN) – from 2019 to 2021
PhD candidate in philosophy, Helen has a BS in International Economics from Georgetown University and an MS in International Finance from MIT. She has worked in both corporate commercial banking at what was once Chase Manhattan Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank. She was also involved in private equity in Poland, as a member of the management board and on the supervisory boards of several invested companies. Helen left finance when she became a mom of two girls, and started studying philosophy when they left home, discovering that she has found her passion.
Gniewomir Hawrasz (Philosophy, IFiS PAN) – from 2021 to 2022
Gniewomir is a doctoral researcher in Early Modern European Intellectual History at IFiS. In his dissertation, he explores the impact of Italian Neoplatonic and Hermetic traditions on medical and natural philosophical education received by Poles in sixteenth-century Northern Italy. Gniewomir is a member of the research team of an ERC Consolidator Grant Project: “From East to West, and Back Again: Student Travel and Transcultural Knowledge Production in Renaissance Europe (c. 1470-c. 1620).”
Iwona Jamrozik (Sociology, IFiS PAN) – from 2021 to 2022
PhD candidate in philosophy, with a background in applied linguistics and economic sociology, curious about people and ideas, academically interested in voice, language, subjectivity and agency.
Piotr Koc (Philosophy, IFiS PAN) – from 2019 to 2020
Piotr Koc is a researcher in the Computational Social Science team at IFiS and a research fellow at the Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich. His dissertation focused on the measurement of political participation in the comparative context. His research has been published in Social Indicators Research and Survey Research Methods.
Siarhei Salei (Political Science, IPS PAN) – from 2022 to 2023
PhD candidate in political science. His research topics deal with the mobilizing function of historical memory in 2020 political protests in Belarus. Siarhei has academic degrees in history and law, and also holds an MA degree from the Central European University. He has also experience in academia (taught History at the Hrodna State University for 6 years), nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations (including UNDP and OSCE).
Emilia Sieczka (Sociology, IFiS PAN) – from 2021 to 2023
Emilia Sieczka, a researcher in the project ‘The national habitus formation and the process of civilization in Poland after 1989: a figurational approach’ funded by the National Science Centre (NCN). Currently, a visiting researcher at CReSPo at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles. In her dissertation, Emilia applies a figurational approach to the study of national mobilization in post-transformational Poland through an investigation of the school communities.
Sebastian Sosnowski (Sociology, IFiS PAN) – from 2023 to 2024
Sebastian is an alumnus of the University of Warsaw (UW) in media studies (BA, in the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences) and digital sociology (MA). In his work, Sebastian is interested in the digital transformation of public institutions, its social implications, and discourse analysis.
Currently, he works in IFiS PAN as a fellow in the AUTO-WELF project (https://blogg.sh.se/digitalwelfare/projects-and-networks/74-2/), which focuses on the automation of public services and its implications for citizens. Previously, he worked at UW in the EnTrust project (https://entrust-project.eu/) on social trust in governance.
Beata Szulęcka-Radomska (Sociology, IFiS PAN) – from 2022 to 2023
Beata is a researcher in the Rare Disease Social Research Centre at IFiS. She works in the field of critical mental health studies and her dissertation explores the psychiatrists’ and patients’ understandings and experiences of depression on the backdrop of popularization of the medicalized idiom of depression in Poland after 1990s. Her research has been published in the East European Politics & Societies. Beata was a co-organizer of international seminar series “Critical Mental Health Seminars” and obtained GSSR GISA scholarship in 2023.