Adam Gendźwiłł
Faculty of Sociology, Associate Professor
Head of the Center
Political scientist (Habilitation), sociologist (PhD, MA), and geographer (MA). His research focuses on local elections, proportional electoral systems, female political representation, and comparative studies of local government systems, particularly – political geography of administrative divisions and territorial reforms. Deputy Chair of the ECPR Standing Group for Local Government and Politics. He has led several research projects and has served as an expert for international organizations, think-tanks, and NGOs (including the Batory Foundation and the Council of Europe).
Wojciech Rafałowski
Faculty of Sociology, Associate Professor, Vice-Dean for Research
Senior Fellow
His work focuses on comparative studies of party and electoral systems, election campaigns and electoral competition, as well as quantitative methods in political research, with a particular emphasis on post-communist countries. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
Jacek Haman
Faculty of Sociology, Associate Professor, Chair of formal models and quantitative methods in sociology
Senior Fellow
His research focuses on social choice theory, game theory, electoral systems and statistical methods in the social sciences. He is the author of several books and articles on the formal properties and consequences of voting rules.
Maciej A. Górecki
Faculty of Psychology, Associate Professor
Senior Fellow
Political scientist holding MSc in social research methods (London School of Economics and Political Science), and a PhD in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on comparative politics and political sociology, in particular electoral behaviour, electoral systems and women’s political representation, as well as causal inference and quantitative methods in the social sciences. He was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and principal investigator of a National Science Centre-funded project on the behavioural effects of electoral gender quotas. He has also worked as a researcher on an ERC Starting Grant project led by Natalia Letki at the University of Warsaw.
Magdalena Skorupska
Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Assistant Professor
Fellow
Doctor of Earth Sciences, graduated from the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Education at the University of Warsaw. She is a member of the Commission on Political Geography of the International Geographical Union. An author of works on political geography, and co-author of the Geographical and Political Atlas of Poland, available online here.
Wiktor Andrzejewski
Doctoral School for Social Sciences, PhD candidate
Junior Fellow
He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). His core research focuses on how the economy and politics influence each other. His studies also cover political behavior. Additionally, he explores the use of Artificial Intelligence and new technologies in the social sciences.
Agata Rydzewska
Doctoral School for Social Sciences, PhD candidate
Junior Fellow
Her research focuses on paradiplomacy, feminist foreign policy and the role of sub-state actors in European politics, with a particular emphasis on Spain and its autonomous communities. She is the principal investigator of the NCN PRELUDIUM project “Descriptive and substantive representation of women in paradiplomacy: The case of Spain’s Autonomous Communities”, carried out at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw. She holds degrees in International Relations (University of Warsaw) and Political Science (University of Gdańsk).
Jan Kroszka
Doctoral School for Social Sciences, PhD candidate
Junior Fellow
He obtained a master’s degree in Quantitative Methods in Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics and previously studied Sociology at the University of Warsaw. During his studies, he also attended courses at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
His research interests include the relationship between the economy and politics, as well as applications of statistical methods in the social sciences
Stanisław Mazur
College of Inter-Faculty Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, graduate student
Junior Fellow
Bachelor of sociology, currently studying computer science & econometrics and philosophy. His academic interests include quantitative research in political science, electoral behaviour and electoral systems.