Speakers
Marzena Oliwkiewicz-Miklasińska is the head of the EEA & Norway Grants Team at the National Science Centre since February 2018. She had been an active researcher till March 2011, with a Ph.D. in earth sciences obtained from the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interest covered palynology, geochronology, thermal maturity of organic matter, and hydrocarbon potential. As the scientific coordinator in the physical sciences and engineering, Marzena has organized and conducted NSC calls since April 2011. Starting from 2017, she was engaged in the initiatives concerning the establishment of the National Science Centre as the Programme Operator of the Research Programme under the third edition of Norway Grants in Poland.
Joanna Bocheńska is the associate professor at the Department of Iranian Studies of the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland) and the director of the Section of Kurdish Studies. Currently she is the principal investigator in the international research project entitled “Activism And Its Moral and Cultural Foundation: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora” (ALCITfem) funded by National Science Centre-Poland and Norway Grants. Her main interests include ethics, heritage, Kurdish oral, classical and modern literature, women representation and activism, Middle Eastern cinema and art. She also translates Kurdish literature into Polish and is a photographer (see: www.joannabochenska.com). Since 2013 she has been editing the www.kurdishstudies.pl website devoted to the different research projects and cultural initiatives of the Section of Kurdish Studies.
Jan Piasecki is a philosopher and bioethicist, assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow. His research interests include research ethics, public health ethics and information ethics.
Konrad Talmont-Kaminski is the Head of the Society & Cognition Unit. His research focuses on the cognitive and evolutionary basis of religion. Konrad studied at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Ontario. He received his doctorate in philosophy from Monash University in Australia and was a fellow of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Vienna.
In 2014 he published Religion as a Magical Ideology with Routledge. In that book he argued that religions combine reliance upon cognitive by-products typical of magical beliefs and practices, as well as the function of motivating prosocial behavior typical of ideologies. Since then, Talmont-Kaminski has pursued a number of collaborative empirical efforts to explore various aspects of the account presented in his book.
Kuba Krys identifies himself as macropsychologist. He created and coordinates international research consortium running large-scale cross-cultural studies that span dozens of countries across the world. He is particularly interested in how cultural sensitivity can contribute to societal development and well-being. He has been working at the Institute of Psychology at the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2012, where he currently holds a position of Associate Professor. He was a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2017 to 2019, his sensei was Yukiko Uchida, he spent two years at the Kyoto University. In his work, he crosses the boundaries the culture imposed on us.
He loves Japan and Scandinavia.
Mads Larsen is a research postdoc at University of Oslo, Centre for Development and the Environment. He has a PhD and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published 35 articles and has books under contract with the University of Michigan Press, Cambridge University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan.
Psychologist and psychotherapist. In his scientific work, prof. Michałowski focuses on neural correlates of emotional experiences and the relationship between emotional and cognitive processes. He is primary interested in the neural mechanisms underlying mental problems, including development, maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders. He is working on the development of e-health interventions and is also studying the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions.
Principal investigator and collaborator in numerous research projects regarding, among others: neural correlates of procrastination, neural correlates of emotional contagion, efficacy of imagery-based psychotherapy, emotions related to climate change, effectiveness of chatbot-based psychotherapy interventions. Author and co-author of many scientific articles in the field of neuroscience, psychophysiology and psychotherapy, published, among others, in Personality and Individual Differences, International Journal of Psychophysiology, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He heads the Laboratory of Neuroscience of Emotions at the Poznan campus of the University SWPS.
Dr Andrew Green is an anthropologist, popular music scholar, and Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Artes Liberales. His work focuses on musical engagements with politics, activism, and the natural environment, with particular attention to the context of Mexico City. He has published work in peer-reviewed journals including Cultural Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Popular Music and Society, Ethnomusicology Forum and the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
Dr Katarzyna Jasko works at the Institute of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University, where she studies the motivations behind individuals’ political engagement. Dr Jaśko explores both destructive political actions that involve ideologically motivated violence and positive cases of extremism, where individuals sacrifice themselves for political goals through peaceful means. Dr. Jaśko is developing a comprehensive theory that encompasses both aspects of political extremism. To test this theory, she examines political involvement within various groups and cultural contexts, ranging from party activists to participants in peaceful social movements
and even former and current members of terrorist groups. Dr. Jaśko is also the co-author of the popular science book titled “Fight, Protest, Change the World” (Smak Słowa, 2019).
Paweł Marczewski is head of the research unit Citizens at the idea Forum, think tank of the Batory Foundation, a member of the Carnegie Civic Research Network, and an affiliated researcher at the SWPS Youth Study Center. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Warsaw. His main areas of interest are relations between demographic changes and democracy, social movements, civil society organizations, and social justice. He is a contributing writer at the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny and a member of the editorial board of Przegląd Polityczny quarterly, his comments and articles appeared also in the Nation, Public Seminar, Eurozine, as well as major Polish dailies Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita.
Siv Haugan is a special adviser at the Research Council of Norway. She is a National Contact Point (NCP) for Cluster 2 (Culture, creativity and inclusive society) and for the ERA-part of the WIDERA-programme.
- Sara Benelli
Sara Benelli is a biogeochemist with expertise in the benthic biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in aquatic ecosystems. Her research covers different aspects of the interactions among macrofauna, primary producers and the microbial communities in the benthic compartment of freshwater and marine environments. She is currently working at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, as principal investigator of the BUFFER project: “Benthic coastal buffers against climatic and eutrophication extremes”. The main aim of BUFFER project is to investigate the impact of the interaction between climatic anomalies and eutrophication on the capacity of the sediments to process and retain nutrients and contrast their regeneration to the water column (the buffer capacity).
- Jan Pawłowski
professor at the Institute of Oceanology,
Polish Academy of Sciences
Jan Pawlowski is a world-leading specialist in molecular ecology and evolution. Former leader of Molecular Systematics Group at the University of Geneva, he is currently a Professor at the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences. His scientific interests range from evolution and systematics of marine protists to environmental genomics. In his work, he is using DNA barcoding and metabarcoding to analyze past and present changes in marine biodiversity and to develop eco-genomic tests for biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems. He is the founder and former President of the Swiss Barcode of Life (SwissBOL), and the founder and CSO of ID-Gene ecodiagnostics Ltd.
- Marzena Oliwkiewicz-Miklasińska
head of the EEA & Norway Grants Team
atthe National Science Centre
Marzena Oliwkiewicz-Miklasińska is the head of the EEA & Norway Grants Team at the National Science Centre since February 2018. She had been an active researcher till March 2011, with a Ph.D. in earth sciences obtained from the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research interest covered palynology, geochronology, thermal maturity of organic matter, and hydrocarbon potential. As the scientific coordinator in the physical sciences and engineering, Marzena has organized and conducted NSC calls since April 2011. Starting from 2017, she was engaged in the initiatives concerning the establishment of the National Science Centre as the Programme Operator of the Research Programme under the third edition of Norway Grants in Poland.
