Dear Doctoral Students,
Following very successful meetings with Prof. Andrzej Skrzypacz, Prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz, Prof. Max Kwiek, Prof. Jakub Bijak, and Prof. Martyna Śliwa, it is high time to meet another researcher who has achieved global success. You are cordially invited to the seminar with Prof. Dariusz Wójcik, who is Professor of Financial Geography at the National University of Singapore and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford. The meeting will take place online on 16 January at 10 a.m. I encourage you to find out more about the programme of the seminar and to fill in the application form.
With sincere greetings
Marcin Dąbrowski
Director of Foundation for the Promotion and Accreditation of Economic Education
The Foundation for the Promotion and Accreditation of Economic Education, established in 2000 by five public universities of economics in Poland, invites PhD students of Doctoral Schools at the Universities of Economics in Katowice, Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław and SGH Warsaw School of Economics to participate in a series of online seminars entitledd “Scientific achievements and career paths of Polish researchers in the world”.
The aim of the meetings is to broaden the perspectives and inspire Ph.D. candidates in the areas of research activity development, good methodological practices and possible professional development paths.
The form of the meetings are open webinars, each with the participation of one researcher from Poland or with Polish roots, working at a foreign university or in an international research team.
prof. Dariusz Wójcik
Dariusz Wójcik is Professor of Financial Geography at National University of Singapore and Honorary Research Associate at University of Oxford. Author of eight books and over one hundred articles, including internationally acclaimed bestseller Atlas of Finance. Founder and inaugural chair of the Global Network on Financial Geography, and Editor-in-Chief of Finance & Space journal. Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and winner of the Royal Geographical Society 2025 Murchison Award for best research in geography.
The plan of the seminar:
Moderator of the seminar and networking session – prof. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Vice Rector for Research, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
prof. Martyna Śliwa
is Professor of Management and Organisation at the University of Bath and Erik Malmstens Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg. Her research draws theoretical inspiration from a range of social sciences and humanities disciplines. She is particularly interested in the multifaceted individual and organisational outcomes of the intersections of different aspects of diversity. Martyna’s work has been published in a range of international outlets including Academy of Management Perspectives, British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, and Organization Studies. She currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Management Learning and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management. Martyna’s contribution to management and organisation studies research, along with her broader leadership work within the academic community, has been recognised through Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellowship of the British Academy of Management.
The plan of the seminar:
Moderator of the seminar and networking session – prof. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Vice Rector for Research, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
prof. Jakub Bijak
doctor of economic sciences (Warsaw School of Economics, 2008), works as Professor of Statistical Demography at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Jakub has over 20 years of work experience both in academia and international civil service. His research focuses on demographic uncertainty, population and migration models and forecasts, and the demography of armed conflict. He has received the Allianz European Demographer Award (2015) and the Jerzy Z Holzer Medal (2007) for his work on migration modelling and forecasting. Leader of a European Research Council project “Bayesian Agent-based Population Studies” (www.baps-project.eu), and a Horizon 2020 project “QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy” (www.quantmig.eu). Jakub is also the current Editor-in-Chief of Demographic Research (www.demographic-research.org).
The plan of the seminar:
Moderator of the seminar and networking session – prof. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Vice Rector for Research, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
prof. Maksymilian Kwiek
After graduating from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 1997, he earned his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University. Since 2003, he works at the University of Southampton. His research is in the field of applied theory and focuses on auction theory, political economy and voting, communication games, etc. He co-initiated and has been co-organising a number of academic conferences in the UK and Poland: Warsaw International Economic Meeting, (Ce)2 Workshop, Workshop in Economic Theory (in Southampton). He co-organises two global online seminar series: Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory, and POLEONUK Webinars. Currently, he is the Deputy Head of School (Education) for the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, and an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Economic Research.
The plan of the seminar:
Moderator of the seminar and networking session – prof. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Vice Rector for Research, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
prof. Marek Kowalkiewicz, QUT Business School, https://www.linkedin.com/in/marekkowal/
Marek is the Chair in Digital Economy at QUT, a research theme lead (digital enterprise) in QUT Centre for Future Enterprise, and the founding director of QUT Research Centre for the Digital Economy, following his five-year appointment as PwC Chair in Digital Economy. He leads QUT’s research agenda to inform and influence a robust digital economy in Australia. He joined QUT from Silicon Valley, where he led innovation teams of one of the largest enterprise software vendors in the world, as a Senior Director at SAP. Before Silicon Valley, Marek worked in Singapore as Research Manager of the largest SAP Research lab in Asia. Prior to that, Marek was a Global Research Program Lead of one of SAP’s main research programs, as well as a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research Asia. Marek is passionate about bringing academic rigour, design mindset, and business insights together, to capitalise on the opportunities of the digital age. He holds fifteen patents describing his numerous contributions to enterprise software systems.
Marek shares his knowledge with wider communities through podcasts, newsletters, and keynotes. He is a member of the Library Board of Queensland, Queensland AI Hub Advisory Board, and the Ministerial ICT Advisory Committee. In 2016, as a member of the Opportunities for Personalised Transport Review Taskforce, he helped shape Queensland’s ride-sharing legislation. Marek frequently contributes to public sector digital transformation initiatives on federal, state, and local levels.
During the seminar, Prof. Kowalkiewicz will share his unusual professional development journey, bridging the academic and industry worlds.
The plan of the seminar:
prof. Andrzej Skrzypacz, Stanford Graduate School of Business, https://web.stanford.edu/~skrz/
His research is in the field of microeconomic theory, specializing in market design, economic dynamics and collusion. His current research projects include analysis of auctions, timing of market transactions and dynamic incentives. Prof. Skrzypacz is a co-editor of the “American Economic Review” and an associate editor at the “Rand Journal of Economics”. He has received a Stanford GSB PhD Distinguished Service Award in 2005 and has advised over a dozen of Ph.D. dissertations. After graduating from the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, prof. Skrzypacz earned Ph.D. in economics from University of Rochester. In 2012 he has been elected a fellow of the Econometric Society.
During the seminar, prof. Skrzypacz will present his current research as well as his advise to the PhD students on the approach to be successful in publishing research results in the scientific journals, based on his extensive expertise as a former editor of the one of the top journals in economic research “American Economic Review”.
The plan of the seminar:
Moderator of the seminar and networking session – prof. Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Vice Rector for Research, SGH Warsaw School of Economics