Dr. Paulina Bagrowska
Dr. Bagrowska defended her dissertation with distinction on 23 January 2026. Her thesis, “Vulnerability to Harm as a Foundation of Paranoia-like Thoughts in a Non-Clinical Sample,” was supervised by dr hab. Łukasz Gawęda, prof. IP PAN.
She currently works at the Experimental Psychopathology Lab at the Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, contributing to projects funded by the National Science Centre (SONATA BIS, PRELUDIUM) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She plans to pursue further grant-funded research and a postdoctoral internship abroad.
Dr. Hubert Plisiecki
Dr. Plisiecki’s dissertation, “Words, Vectors, and Feelings: Advancing Psychological Emotion Research Through Natural Language Processing,” was written under the supervision of Prof. Artur Pokropek.
His doctoral research integrates psychology and machine learning, developing and validating natural language processing methods tailored to psychological research. The dissertation consists of four first-authored articles, three published in leading international journals.
Dr. Plisiecki has joined the Phenomenology and Computational Psychiatry team at the IDEAS Research Institute, led by Prof. Marcin Moskalewicz, where he continues developing language-based methods to better understand human mental life.
Dr. Marcelina Wiśniewska
Dr. Wiśniewska defended her dissertation, “Neural and Parasympathetic Mechanisms of Momentary and Chronic Loneliness During Social Information Processing,” under the supervision of dr hab. Łukasz Okruszek, prof. IP PAN.
Her research examined neural and physiological mechanisms of loneliness and their role in social information processing. She now continues her work as Lab Manager at the Social Neuroscience Lab (Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences), contributing to an NCN-funded project on loneliness and prosociality.
We are proud to celebrate their achievements. Their research — spanning computational methods, experimental psychopathology, and social neuroscience — reflects the methodological breadth and scientific strength of doctoral training in Psychology at GSSR.