Team - Poland

Prof. Dr. Emanuel Kulczycki

Emanuel is a social scientist, currently serving as head of the Scholarly Communication Research Group and an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He also holds an associate professorship at the Faculty of Computer Science at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland. His academic background is in philosophy and communication, which has fueled his passion for investigating critical aspects of scholarly communication. His research primarily focuses on the nuances of predatory publishing and the far-reaching consequences of research evaluation systems. He is a Principal Investigator in this project.

Dr. Jakub Krzeski

Jakub is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University and a researcher at the Scholarly Communication Research Group. He earned his PhD in 2021 with a dissertation titled “A Philosophical Account of Metrological Conflict in the Field of Science Evaluation”, defended at the Faculty of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University. His research interests include the social theory of quantification, critical theory, and political ontology. Together with Dr. Krystian Szadkowski, he recently published the book A Marxist Critique of the Ruined University.

Dr. Federico Vasen

Federico has a background in philosophy and social sciences and has been researching science and technology policy and research assessment for the last 10 years. He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Social Sciences from the National University of Quilmes. He is currently a researcher at CONICET and the University of Buenos Aires, and a research collaborator at the Scholarly Communication Research Group at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

Rafał Wąż

Rafał holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. His undergraduate thesis focused on the political implications of Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT). He is currently studying philosophy and sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interests include critical theory, utopian studies, and the political role of academia in the current stage of capitalism.