I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; and at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
I am a Co-director of the UCL Centre for Study on Places, Identities and Memories (PIMs)
In addition, I am a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Economic Performance and International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics.
I am a vice-president and a founder of an expert group Dobrobyt na Pokolenia (Prosperity for Generations) - a Polish group which has gathered leading young economists with the aim of refreshing the economic debate in Poland. I am also a member of Concilium Civitas.
My research interests span: Labor Economics; Income and Wealth Inequality; Spatial Economics; and the Economics of Education
My Google Scholar page can be found here
Email: p.bukowski[at]ucl.ac.uk
My new book on inequalities in Poland (and in Polish), written together with Jakub Sawulski and Michał Brzeziński
https://wydawnictwo.krytykapolityczna.pl/nierownosci-po-polsku-1277
The book has won two awards:
The Marcin Król Prize 2025: “The award, established by the Stefan Batory Foundation, is granted for the best book in the fields of the history of ideas, philosophy, social and political thought, future studies, and reflections on culture and civilisation.”
The Scientific Economic Book of the Year 2024, awarded by the Polish daily Puls Biznesu.