Adam Gendźwiłł

Faculty of Sociology, Professor
Head of the Center

Political scientist, sociologist, and geographer. His research focuses on local elections, proportional electoral systems, female political representation, and comparative studies of local government systems, particularly the 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 – CDDG and GRECO).

Marta Kołczyńska

Faculty of Sociology, Assistant Professor
Fellow

PhD in sociology from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on political attitudes and behavior, with particular emphasis on political trust and polarization, as well as on comparative survey methodology, including issues of data quality, harmonization, and cross-national survey research. She currently serves as an associate editor of the journals Survey Research Methods and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

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, Professor
Senior Fellow

Political scientist holding an 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 a 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.

Bartłomiej Klimowski-Kuś

Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, PhD candidate
Junior Fellow

PhD student in Sociology interested in political economy. His research employs advanced quantitative methods, with a particular interest in causal inference, and draws on analytical sociology and formal theory. He holds an MA in Sociology of Social Intervention and a BEng in Computer Science, and previously worked as a data scientist.

Adam Gonet

Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, PhD candidate
Junior Fellow

PhD student in Economics and Political Science with a background in Geography. His research interests include the application of advanced quantitative methods to social science research, with a particular focus on spatial dependencies. He holds an MA in Geography, specializing in Geoinformatics, Cartography, and Remote Sensing, and is currently completing an MA in Data Science and Business Analytics. His additional interests include geospatial data visualization, particularly the use of GIS tools and interactive digital maps.

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

Universität Mannheim, MA Political Science student
Junior Fellow

Bachelor of sociology and philosophy, having also studied computer science & econometrics. His academic interests include comparative politics (particularly Space & Politics), political sociology, quantitative methods in social science, as well as electoral behaviour and electoral systems. He also follows research and public debate concering higher education in Poland and abroad.

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).