Education
2018 - 2022 Ph.D Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Thesis: The Impact of Social Security Wealth on Wealth Distribution in Poland
Supervisor: Professor Bogusław Czarny, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Reviewers: Professors Marek Gruchelski, Marek Kośny Eva Sierminska
2021 - 2022 Research visit, Paris School of Economics
Research visit on the invitation by Professor Thomas Piketty funded by doctoral grant from the National Science Centre (NCN).
2016 - 2018 M.Sc Public Economics, Free University Berlin
Thesis: Explaining the wealth gap between Poland and Hungary (published in the reviewed form) Supervisor: Professor Carsten Schröder, Free University Berlin & Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) Reviewer: Professor Timm Bönke,, Free University Berlin & Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)
2013 - 2016 B.A. Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Thesis: Labor market policy of social democratic parties 1974-2014. Social democracy in the era of neoliberalism
Supervisor: Professor Kazimierz Kloc, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Professional experience
03.2022 - now Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
09.2024 - 06.2025 Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
During my employment at Harvard, I am focused on the book project - a monograph on the long-run evolution of economic inequality and social mobility in Poland
01.2022 - 2025 Consultant, Global Poverty & Equity Group, World Bank
At World Bank I support projects on the impact of COVID in Poland, energy transition in Poland, and labor market in Romania.
2018 - 2020 Analyst, Department of Commercial Banking, Polish Financial Supervision Authority
Supervision of the banking sector in Poland (especially: interest rate risk, stress tests, mortgage loans), representation of the PFSA on the European Level (European Central Bank, European Systemic Risk Board)
2017 - 2018 Analyst, Departament of Industrial & Structural Policy, German Trade Union Confederation
Energy transition, analytical preparation to COP 2018
Grants and scholarships
Foundation for Polish Science: START Scholarship (2024)
Ministry of Education & Science: Scholarship for Outstanding Young Researchers (2022 - 2025)
National Science Centre (Poland): The long-run evolution of economic inequality and social mobility in Poland (2023 - 2027). OPUS grant, 2 132 584 PLN, Princiapl Investigator
National Science Centre (Poland): The impact of public pension systems on wealth inequality. The substitution between social security wealth and private wealth. PRELUDIUM (grant for young researchers), 123 434 PLN, Principal Investigator
National Science Centre (Poland): The impact of social security wealth on wealth distribution in Poland. ETIUDA (doctoral fellowship), 146 304 PLN, Principal investigator
Several smaller grants from Warsaw School of Economics grant schemes. Full scholarship for Ph.D. students funded by the SGH Warsaw School of Economics.
Membership in the professional organizations (active or past)
American Economic Association (AEA), European Economic Association (EEA), International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW), Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Polish Economic Society, Polish Network of Economics, European Historical Economics Association, Economic History Society, Economic History Association
Publications
Reviewing: Applied Economics Letters, Applied Economics, BMC Health Services Research, BMC Medical Research Methodology, BMC Nutrition (various papers in medicine on the impact of economic inequality on health), Comparative Economic Research, Economics, Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Management and Economics, Journal of Economics of Ageing, Iran Journal of Computer Science (digital inequalities), Prague Economic Papers, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Science & Humanities Open,
Conferences and seminar presentations
09.2025. Red Flag, Old Elite? The Social Origins of the Polish United Workers’ Party Leadership, Center for Economic History Research, Conference on Wars, Revolutions and Insecurity, Sofia, Bulgaria.
09.2025 The family network of Polish elite: 1800 - 1984. 19th Congress of the Polish Sociological Association, Białystok, Poland
08.2025. Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984, RC 28 Summer Meeting, Los Angeles, United States
07.2025 Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984, World Economic History Congress, Lund, Sweden
06.2025 Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984, Social Mobility of Elites Workshop,Prague, Czech Republic
05.2025 Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984, Social History of Finance Seminar, Antwerp, Belgium
03.2025 Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984, Canadian Network for Economic History, Montreal, Canada
03.2025 Inequality and Economic Development in the European Periphery: The Fate of Poland, New Research on Europe Seminar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
12.2024 The impact of railway on the regional economic development in the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Workshop “Transport and History: Pushing the Frontiers of Data, Measurement, and Outcomes”, Rome, Italy
12.2024 Intergenerational Mobility over Nine Generations: Evidence from Poland, 1800-1984, WEast Conference, European Historical Economics Association, Dublin, Ireland
06.2024 The ethnicity of top income and wealth in the European periphery. The case of Poland until 1939. WEast Conference, European Historical Economics Association, Milano, Italy.
05.2024 The ethnicity of top income and wealth in the European periphery. The case of Poland until 1939. Groningen Growth and Development Conference, Groningen, Netherlands
03.2023 The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union, Augmented Wealth Conference, Bank of Austria, Vienna, Austria.
02.2023 The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union, Inaugural III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference, International Inequality Institute, LSE, London, United Kingdom.
01.2023 The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union, ASSA, American Economic Association, New Orleans, Untied States.
11.2022 Long-term evolution of income inequality in the large Polish city. The income distribution in Warsaw in 1833, 1925, and 2017. European Congress of Economic History, Rzeszów, Poland.
08.2022 The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union, 37th International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) General Conference, Luxembourg.
08.2022 The Impact of Social Security Wealth on the Distribution of Wealth in the European Union, General Conference of the Society for Economic Measurement, Calgary, Canada.
07.2022 Wealth inequality in interwar Poland, XIX World Economic History Congress, Paris, France.
01.2022 Long-term evolution of income inequality in the large Polish city. The income distribution in Warsaw in 1833, 1925, and 2017. Fast-track-meeting of European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, London, United Kingdom (remote)
11.2021 The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of household wealth in the European Union. Evidence from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, 20th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Tokyo, Japan (remote)
07.2021 Wealth inequality in interwar Poland. Evidence from wealth tax. Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), London, UK (remote)
07.2021 LIS Virtual Summer Workshop, Luxembourg. (remote)
06.2020 The impact of social security wealth on the distribution of household wealth in the European Union. Evidence from the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey, Applied Economic Lunch Seminar, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
11.2020 Intergenerational educational mobility in Poland since 1920. Education as a positional good, 19th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association, Hiroshima, Japan (remote)
09.2020 Intergenerational educational mobility in Poland since 1920. Education as a positional good, 35th National Conference of Labour Economics, AIEL, Salerno, Italy (remote)
11.2019 Income and wealth inequality in the Nordic countries, X Congress of Polish Economists, Warsaw, Poland
06.2019 Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, University of Chicago & Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway
Languages
Polish (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (intermediate), Russian (intermediate)