Team - Poland

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.

Dr. Franciszek Krawczyk

Franciszek is a research assistant in the Scholarly Communication Research Group in Adam Mickiewicz University. Currently, he is finishing his postdoctoral project, “Is Trinity College Dublin semi-peripheral? Study of two conflicting traditions of writing about centre and peripheries,” in Dublin, and will start leading a project on metascience observatories. His PhD thesis examined resistance in peripheries in the context of the history of Polish academia after the Second World War. He published papers on predatory journals and the geopolitics of knowledge, and he is currently preparing a project on the world-system history of Polish academic publishing.

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.