2025 Editor of the Studies in Esotericism series at the Jagiellonian University Press. HERE.
2025 - 2027 Research/formal support (Jagiellonian Univerity's budget coordinator and researcher) in a project CEMORY: Central European Memory of the Holocaust in a Multicultural and Multidimensional Perspective [CERV EU]. PI: Anna Kuchta, PhD.
2024 - 2027 PI of a research project - The blurry lines between scientific and occult discourses at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The example of Julian Ochorowicz experiments, ID: 2023/51/D/HS1/03055 [Sonata NCN - National Science Centre Poland]. Read the summary HERE.
2023 - 2026 PI of a research project - Theosophical Pedagogy. Relations of the 19th-century Project of Spirituality and the Theory of Education, ID: 2022/45/B/HS1/02387 [Opus NCN - National Science Centre Poland]. Read the summary HERE.
2021 - now Assistant Professor for Research [adiunkt badawczy], Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University.
2018-2020 Academic teaching as a PhD candidate in the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Univeristy of Silesia:
Introduction to Sociology, Global Social Processes, History of Social Thought.
2016-2021 PI of a research project - Etiuda NCN.
2016-2019 Researcher in NPRH Project.
2015-2016 Co-coordinator and lecturer of Magic in Culture, Centre CSC, Jagiellonian University.
2014 - now Steering Committee Member of the CEENASWE Network.
2014-2016 PI of a research project - Preludium NCN.
2013-2017 Co-founder and a Board Member of the Polish Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
2009-2013 Research and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophical and Social Education, Faculty of Ethnology and
Educational Sciences in Cieszyn, University of Silesia in Katowice. Teaching: conducting 930 hours of didactic classes, including:
Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Methodology of Social Sciences, Biomedical
Foundations of Development and Education.
2008-2014 Sign language teacher and interpreter in various educational and social institutions.
2007-2008 Rehabilitation instructor, sign language interpreter, Polish Association of the Deaf.
2021 PhD with honors in Philosophy from Jagiellonian University. Dissertation Polish Theosophical thought and the ideas of the international Theosophical Society, 1905-1939. A critical analysis of selected philosophical topics [in Polish].
2020-2024 PhD program in Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Siesia in Katowice.
2013-2018 PhD program in Cultural Studies and Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University.
2010-2013 MA with distinction in Ethnology - Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Ethnology and Educational Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice. Thesis: Magic - theories, contexts, connotations. From media discourse to cognitive approach.
2004-2009 MA with distinction in Pedagogy - Institute of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Ethnology and Educational Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice.
2 specialisations: Philosophical and Social Education, Social Work and Care and Educational Pedagogy. Thesis: The specificity of Gnostic speculation. Gnosis and Hermeticism in Contemporary Culture.
For details of the current projects see the separate section.
2024-2027 PI of the project - The blurry lines between scientific and occult discourses at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The example of Julian Ochorowicz experiments financed by the National Science Centre as part of the competition Sonata 19, project ID: 2023/51/D/HS1/03055.
2023-2026 PI of the project Theosophical Pedagogy. Relations of the 19th-century Project of Spirituality and the Theory of Education financed by the National Science Centre as part of the competition Opus 23, project ID: 2022/45/B/HS1/02387.
2022 PI of the project Archival collection of the Society for Psychical Research - Ochorowicz and his media in a PROM program (NAWA) implemented by the University of Silesia in Katowice for archive query in the SPR Archives, University of Cambridge, UK.
2016–2017 PI of the project financed by the National Science Centre Poland - Etiuda scholarship awarded for the finalization of a doctoral dissertation entitled Polish Theosophical Thought and the Ideas of the World Theosophical Society in 1905-1939. A critical analysis of selected philosophical threads, no. 2016/20/T/HS1/00226.
2014–2016 PI of the project Reception of the category of the East by Polish esoteric environments at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and its cultural and religious consequences financed by the National Science Centre as part of the competition Preludium 6 No. 2013/11 /N/HS1/04812.
2013-2014 An individual project implemented as part of a competition for Young Scientists at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University entitled The specificity of the reception of esoteric traditions in Poland at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
2012-2013 An individual project implemented as part of a competition for Young Scientists at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Silesia in Katowice entitled Changes in the Idea of Godmanhood in the Perspective of Philosophical Anthropology.
2021 laureate in the Iwanowska Program of the National Agency for Academic Exchange for increasing academic mobility - stay in recognized research centers and implementation of research projects together with outstanding scientists from abroad. 6-month research internship at the Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University, USA under the supervision of prof. Arthur Versluis [postponed due to pandemic, later cancelled].
2016–2019 Researcher in the group project Polish Culture in Relation to Western Esoteric Philosophy in the Years 1890–1939 under the supervision of Prof. Monika Rzeczycka (University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Philology) implemented under the National Program for the Development of Humanities No. 0186 / NPRH4 / H2b / 83/2016 (section Development 2b).
2013-2014 The team project Sacrum in 21st Century Fantastic Literature, under the supervision of Dr. Izabela Trzcińska at the Department of Comparative Studies of Civilization at the Jagiellonian University.
2009-2013 Team project Philosophical Reflection on Culture as an Attempt to Respond to the Problems of the Present, implemented at the Department of Philosophical and Social Education at the Faculty of Ethnology and Sciences of Education, University of Silesia, project number: 1S-1210-005-1-02.
2017, 02–08 6-month internship as visiting researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, financed by the National Science Center (discipline: Religious Studies, specialisation: Western Esotericism).
2014/2015 Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands), Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies - Erasmus+ scholarship (discipline: Religious Studies), the entire academic year.
2012/2013 Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Religious Studies - "MOST" PhD student exchange program (discipline: Religious Studies), the entire academic year.
• 15-18.03.2024 – fieldwork devoted to the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light in Crewe, Cheshire, England.
• 13-20.2023 South Africa (Johannesburg) – fieldwork devoted to the Revelation Spiritual Home (a religious movement referring to traditional African spirituality, which brings together many thousands of members), as well as research on other NRMs: The Unification Church and the Church of Scientology in South Africa at Castle Kyalami.
• 07-08.2023 Germany (Bonn) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam) – library queries connected to Opus project research related to Theosophy.
• 06-17.05.2022: Great Britain (Cambridge) - a query in the collections of The Society for Psychical Research Archives in Cambridge University Library. Bilateral project of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange and University of Silesia in Katowice for financing the mobility of doctoral students and academic staff, research visit connected to the 2nd PhD thesis.
• 23.11-01.12.2016: Great Britain (London, Cambridge) - archive and library inquiries in The Theosophical Society in England, The College of Psychic Studies, The Society for Psychical Research under the NPRH grant.
• 29.08.2015 - 04.01.2016: USA (Pittsburgh, Wheaton) - library inquiries at Hillman Library, The University of Pittsburgh, Henry S. Olcott Memorial National Library of The Theosophical Society in America under a NCN grant.
• 27.06.-09.07.2015: Italy (Turin) - inquiry and scientific consultation at CESNUR (Centro studi sulle nuove religioni / Center for Studies on New Religions) under a grant from the National Science Center.
• 01.12-22.12.2013: The Netherlands (Amsterdam) - library inquiries at Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica (Ritman Library), Universiteitsbbibliotheek UvA (The University of Amsterdam Library), Theosofische Vereniging in Nederland Bibliotheek and scientific consultations at Centrum of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents) of the University of Amsterdam as part of an individual grant at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.
• 09.11.-24.11.2012: USA - library query - University of Pittsburgh as part of an individual grant at the University of Silesia.