Paweł Kawalec
Full Professor, Department of Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). Member of the Science of Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the editorial board of the series Philosophy and Religion (Brill) and of the journal Science of Science Quarterly. Editor of over 15 collective volumes in the field of science of science, including Science of Science Dictionary (2026, Kraków). Publishes on the theory and methodology of science, Bayesian epistemology, argumentation theory and early analytic philosophy. Monographs: Pluralism and Progress in Economics (2026 forthcoming, Routledge); Integral Methodology (2018, in Polish); Causality and Explanation (2006, in Polish) and Structural Reliabilism (2003, Kluwer). Expert evaluator of EU framework programs, NAWA, NCBR, NCN, Review Panel Member of EU COST.
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
PhD with habilitation in economics; associate professor at Gdansk University of Technology (Faculty of Management and Economics). Her research focuses on international economics, economic convergence, productivity and efficiency analysis, economics of education, labour economics. She holds PhD (with honors) from Gdańsk University of Technology (2006). She stayed as a visiting scholar at Sapienza University of Rome (2019), University of California-Berkeley (2013-2014), European University Institute (Max Weber Fellowship, 2007-2008); Katholieke Universitei Leuven (Marie Curie Fellowship, 2005/2006), Glasgow University (2004). She has led research projects on GVC/GSC-labour market interactions and efficiency of higher education institutions. Laurate of the Polish Prime Ministry Award for the outstanding doctoral thesis and awards from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (scholarship for outstanding young scientists, habilitation award), laurate of the National Bank of Austria Award. She has published in, inter alia: Higher Education, Research Policy, Economic Systems Research, Review of World Economics; Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Economic Inequality, Higher Education, The World Economy, Journal of Productivity Analysis.
Agnieszka Olechnicka
Head of the Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) at the University of Warsaw and an economist specialising in regional and local development. Her research explores the role of science in socio-economic development, the spatial dimensions of innovation and research activity, and the geography of scientific collaboration. She is the initiator of the Science Studies Lab at the University of Warsaw, and currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Science of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the 2023-2026 term. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, Secretary of the Polish Section of the Regional Studies Association, and a member of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her expert work includes contributions to science policy and regional smart specialisation, including service on the European Commission’s expert groups and the S3 Community of Practice Expert Group.
Dominik Antonowicz
Head of the Department for Science and Higher Education Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His research in the field of higher education focuses on public policy analysis—particularly on goal setting, implementation, and evaluation—as well as on university governance and management. He graduated from Nicolaus Copernicus University (sociology) and the University of Birmingham (public management). He has also worked at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente (2008–2009), the Centro de Investigação de Políticas do Ensino Superior (CIPES) at the University of Porto (2016), and the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education (CIHE) at the University of Toronto, Canada (2020–2021). He has been a recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including those from the British Council (Chevening Scholar), the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (Bekker Programme), and the Foundation for Polish Science (START and Columbus).
Ewa Lechman
an economist, currently employed at Gdańsk Tech. She completed several research projects by National Science Centre, National Bank of Poland, CERGE-EU, United Nations, Emerald Insight, and projects funded under EU schemes. In 2007 and 2023, she received the international scientific award “Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.” Former head of doctoral studies, vice-dean for development at FME, and chair of the Social Sciences Discipline Council. Currently, she holds the position of Vice-Director of the Doctoral School at Gdańsk University of Technology and is an active member of the Committee of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also a reviewer for NAWA, NCN, and the Fulbright Foundation, and previously served as an expert for NCBR (National Centre for Research and Development) and the Committee for Evaluation of Science.
Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska
is Head of Scholarly Communication and Open Science Services at Gdańsk University of Technology, where she also serves as the Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Open Science, Manager of the Bridge of Data (data repository), and Leader of the Open Science Competence Center. She specializes in research data governance, FAIR and CARE practices, and policies for research data repositories, with a strong focus on EOSC frameworks and their institutional implementation. Her work centers on developing institutional strategies, governance models, and training programmes for researchers and doctoral students to support sustainable, trustworthy open research data ecosystems. Magda is actively involved in international open science initiatives and working groups. She is a member of the EOSC OA5 group, co-chair of the RDA Organizational Advisory Board, and co-chair of the RDA Education and Training on Handling of Research Data Interest Group. She is PI of EOSC- related FIDELIS project and serves as a reviewer for CoreTrustSeal trusted repository applications. Magdalena serves also as the Deputy Delegate of Gdańsk University of Technology to the EOSC Association. She teaches courses for doctoral students in the area of open science and research data management and works as a lecturer and mentor at the European Open Science School (EOSS). Previously, she worked as a Library Assistant at the Health Sciences Library at University College Dublin, Ireland. She holds a BA in Librarianship from the University of Warsaw and an MSc in Digital Library Management from the University of Borås, Sweden. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences and workshops and has coordinated and contributed to multiple research and training projects, including HORIZON 2020 BE OPEN, EOSC Future, POWER 3.4, and projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre. She currently leads a Data Stewardship programme focused on promoting open research data awareness, funded by the Excellence Initiative – Research University (IDUB). She is a PhD candidate, with research interests focusing on research productivity and motivation, management of higher education institutions, open science, open access, open research data, information literacy, scholarly communication, and bibliometrics.