About me

I am an assistant professor at the Collegium of World Economy SGH Warsaw School of Economics. I am a fellow of the World Inequality Database (Paris School of Economics, France), the Global Labor Organization (Essen, Germany), and Teaching Fellow of CERGE-EI Foundation (Prague, Czech Republic). 

I am interested in economic inequality, economic history, and economic policy. Currently, I am investigating the long-term evolution of economic inequality in Poland, studying the long-term impact of the Holocaust on the Polish economy & society, and exploring the consequences of the economic transition in Poland. I am a Principal Investigator (PI) of research project "The long-run evolution of economic inequality and intergenerational mobility in Poland" funded by the Polish National Science Centre (OPUS competition, 2023 - 2027; 2.1 M. PLN). Im also a PI of the second NSC research grant "The Impact of World War II and the Holocaust on Poland’s Economy and Society" (SONATA, 2026 - 2029; 1.0M PLN).

My research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and respected field outlets. I have contributed to large-scale replication and reproducibility projects published in Nature and PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). My work on economic history, inequality, social mobility, and ageing has also been published in journals including Cliometrica, the European Review of Economic History, the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, the Scandinavian Economic History Review, Economic History of Developing Regions, the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA), and Eastern European Economics. 

In the academic year 2024-2025, I visited the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. In the academic year 2021/2022, I visted the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics, and in 2026 I was a Visiting Fellow at Department of Economics History at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Besides my academic duties, I am active in public policy area. I am a voting member of Indepnedent Fiscal Counties (nominated by trade unions). In the years 2023 - 2025, I served s a voting member of the Financial Supervision Authority. In the past I was employed as a consultant at the World Bank (Global Poverty & Equity Group) and in the private sector. 

I am an active participant in public debate in Poland.  I often comment on economic issues in leading Polish media.

My hobbies include: long walks, board games, literature, animals, caravaning. 

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