CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
2020 –
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw
2020 –
Founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Labour Market and Family Dynamics (LABFAM)
2020 –
Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant “Globalization-and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility” (LABFER)
2020 –
Secretary General and Treasurer, European Association of Population Studies
2017 –
Deputy Editor at Demography (journal of Population Association of America)
2021 –
Editor-In-Chief Central European Economic Journal (CEEJ)
2021 –
Member of the Editorial Board, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
2012 –
Member of the Council of Advisors of Population Europe
EDUCATION
2017
Habilitation in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2009
PhD in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2006
European Research Master of Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
2003
Master degree in Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2003
Master degree in Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2013 – 2019
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Wittgenstein Centre (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
2009 – 2017
Assistant Professor, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland (on leave between 08.2013 – 09.2017)
2003 – 2009
Research Assistant, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
2003 – 2005
Research Assistant at the Gdańsk Research Institute on Market Economies, Warsaw, Poland
RESEARCH STAYS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Jan 2010
Guest Researcher at the Department of Sociology at the Stockholm University, Sweden
Nov 2008 – Jan 2009
Doctoral Fellow at the Laboratory of Population and Policy, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Oct 2006 – March 2007
Doctoral Fellow at the International Max Planck Research School of Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany.
Sept 2005 – Jul 2006
PhD student at the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany.
PAST APPOINTMENTS
2015 – 2017
Editor of the Book Review Section in European Journal of Population
2012 –2019
Member of the Editorial Board in Studia Demograficzne (Polish demographic journal)
2015 –2019
Member of the IUSSP Panel on Subjective well-being and demographic events, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
2009 –2019
International Collaborator of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe
MOST IMPORTANT PRIZES AND AWARDS
2018
The Dirk van de Kaa Award for Social Demography for outstanding achievements in social demography by an individual scholar, granted by European Association for Population Studies.
2017
Recognition within the “Change the World, One Article at a Time” Initiative of the Springer Nature for the article “Country-specific conditions of work and family reconciliation. An Attempt at Quantification” published in the European Journal of Population (co-author D. Węziak-Białowolska)
2013
Prize of the National Science Centre of Poland for the best young researcher in the field of arts, humanities and social sciences, 2013
2012
Prize of the Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics for the book ‘Interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply’. Dordrecht: Springer
2011
Prize of the Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics for the scientific achievements
2010
Scientific Award of the Ministry of Science and Tertiary Education for the best young researchers, 2010
2009
Scientific Scholarship granted by the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, 2009
2007 – 2008
Scientific Scholarship START granted by the Foundation for Polish Science
EXPERIENCE IN ATTRACTING RESEARCH FUNDING
2020-2025
Globalization- and Technology-Driven Labour Market Change and Fertility (LABFER), ERC Consolidator Grant 2019
2019-2023
Polish Returns 2019, funding of the National Agency of Academic Exchange (NAWA) for establishing a research team upon the return to Poland after at least two-year long research stay abroad
2010 – 2013
Family Change and Subjective Well-being (FAMWELL), financed by the National Centre for Research and Development (Poland) within a Programme LEADER, directed to young researchers (max 4 years after the PhD) for establishing a research team. Amount granted: 250 000 EUR
2011 – 2013
Family Change in Italy and Poland (FAMCHIP), collaborative project with University of Florence financed by National Science Centre in Poland. Amount granted: 100,000 EUR; PI: Irena E. Kotowska; My role: initiation of the grant and preparation of the grant proposal together with D. Vignoli (University of Florence)
2011 – 2012
Women’s self-employment in Poland: A strategy for combining work and childcare? Research Grant funded by CERGE-EI Foundation within the Global Development Network, Co-Principal Investigator (with M. Mynarska)
PARTICIPATION IN OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS (most important)
International
2014 – 2017
Fertility and Reproduction in 21st Century Europe (EURREP), ERC Starting Grant (PI: T. Sobotka), Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2013 – 2016
Families and Societies – Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations, 7th EC Framework Programme.
2004 – 2009
Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe (RECWOWE) funded by the EC 7th Framework Program
2004 – 2007
The Insecure Perspectives of the Low Skilled in the Knowledge Society (LOWER3), workpackage on gender and the labour market, under the EC 6th Framework Program
2002 – 2005
Population Policy Acceptance (PPA) Study. The Viewpoint of Citizens and Policy Actors Regarding the Management of Population Related Change (DIALOG) under the EC 5th Framework Program.
National
2009 – 2012
Generations and Gender Programme, 1st round – Poland, project financed by the Ministry of Science and Tertiary Education, conducted at the Institute of Statistics and Demography – Warsaw School of Economics.
2009 – 2010
Employment from the life course perspective, Poland project financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy in cooperation with Institute for Structural Studies.
2005 – 2007
Structural and cultural determinants of women’s labour force participation in Poland, financed by the Ministry of Science.
2005 – 2007
Economic and educational activity of women and their care duties, funded from the European Social Fund, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
2019 – 2020
Convenor of the Fertility Theme at the European Population Conference, Padova 24-27.06.2020 (cancelled due o COVID-19)
2019
Organiser of the scientific session at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting PAA 2019, Austin/Texas, 10-13.04.2019
2017
Member of the Organising Committee of the international workshop ”Integrating Subjective Well-being in the Demographic Agenda” side meeting to the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Chicago 26.04.2017
2013
A member of the organizing committee of the international conference “Comparing families: does international perspective help?”, Warsaw School of Economics, 17-18.12.2013
2013
A member of the organizing committee of the 2nd Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) User Group Conference, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy, 24 and 25. 10. 2013
2013
Member of the Organising Committee of the national conference „New patterns of family formation in Poland: their causes and consequences on subjective well-being”, Warsaw School of Economics, 18.06.2013
2012
Convenor of the Fertility Theme in the European Population Conference, Stockholm 13-16.06.2012.
INVITED SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
2019
Men’s involvement in the family and fertility: what about men’s opportunity costs? Invited presentation at the seminar series of the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics & Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milano, 16.09.2019 (with A. Rybińska)
2019
Men’s involvement in the family and fertility: what about men’s opportunity costs? Invited presentation at the seminar series of the Population and Health Research Group, University of St Andrews, 14.05.2019 (with A. Rybinska)
2019
Do family policies affect fertility? – invited presentation at the research seminar “Global Population Challenges”, Department of Demography, Charles University, Prague, 29.04.2019
2018
Evidence-based family policies as a response to the demographical challenges in Europe, invited presentation at the plenary session at the conference “Regional symposium on evidence-based family policies. Implications of Gender and Generations Survey data in the UNECE Region”, UNFPA, UNECE & UNICEF & the Government of Belarus, Minsk 20-21.03.2018
2017
Partners’ involvement in the family and their fertility desires, invited presentation at the conference “Changing Gender Inequalities, Changing Families?”, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, 7-8.12.2017 (with A. Rybinska)
2017
Self-Employment as a Work-and-Family Reconciliation Strategy?, invited presentation at the conference “Low Fertility, Labor Market, and Family: Factors, Outcomes, and Policy Implications”, East-West Center, Honolulu, US, 20-21.11.2017 (with M. Mynarska)
2017
Potential of GGS data for international comparative research – keynote speech at the Polish Gender and Generations Conference, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw 26.06.2017 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2016
The Impact of the Great Recession on Fertility in Europe, invited presentation at the colloquium, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, 21.12.2016 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2016
The Impact of the Great Recession on Fertility in Europe, keynote speech at the workshop “Old and new families facing the new century’s challenges”, University of Padua, Padua 16.12.2016 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2016
Use of GGS Data in Comparative Family Research, invited presentation at “Generations and Gender Programme: Methodology and Data Use Conference”, UNFPA & UNICEF, Minsk, 28.11.2016
2016
The Impact of the Great Recession on Fertility in Europe, invited presentation at the colloquium, Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics & Public Policy, Bocconi University, Milano, 15.02.2016 (with T. Sobotka and D. Vignoli)
2013
Diverse pathways to childlessness over the life course, invited presentation at the colloquium, Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna 02.07.2013 (with M. Mynarska, A. Rybinska, V. Tocchioni, D. Vignoli)
2012
Which family model makes couples more happy – dual earner or male breadwinner?, invited presentation at the 46th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, Rome, 20-22.06.2012 (with A Baranowska-Rataj)
2010
Women’s employment in an adverse institutional setting: does it discourage childbearing? invited presentation at the Rostocker Ring Conference, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, 1.07.2010 (with D. Vignoli)
2009
Interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply, invited presentation at the colloquium, Department of Statistics and Demography, University of Florence, Italy, 27.05.2009
INVITED PRESENTATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS (most important)
2019
Peer Review: Strategic Principles for the Improvement of the Demographic Situation in Armenia – presentation at the meeting with National Commision on Improvement of Demographic Situation, Republic of Armenia, 12.06.2019
2017
“Low fertility and population dynamics in Eastern Europe”, Workshop on Family Planning and Reproductive Rights, SheDecides Initiative, UNFPA, Chisinau, Moldova, 21.06.2017
2013
Presentation about work-family conflict and family change for the Parliamentary Committee for the Family and Social Policy (Poland), 17.04.2013 (with Irena E. Kotowska and M. Styrc)
2011
“Can reduction of tensions between paid work and childcare encourage young adults to have more children?” and participation in the discussion panel “How can we support parenthood in Poland?” (in Polish) at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, 16.11.2011
2011
“Is there any lesson for policy-makers from studying Central and Eastern Europe’s fertility decline?” Population Europe Event, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 29.03.2011
2010
„Will number of births in Poland decline?” (in Polish) at the Polish Central Statistical Office 31.03.2010 (with I.E.Kotowska and J.Jóźwiak)
2009
Interdependencies between fertility and women’s labour supply, invited presentation at the colloquium, Department of Statistics and Demography, University of Florence, Italy, 27.05.2009
CONSULTANCY AND EXPERTISE
2019
Consultancy for the United Nations Population Fund in Armenia on the possibilities of the improvement of the demographic situation in the country
2017
Consultancy for the United Nations Populations Fund on gender equality and family dynamics in Eastern Europe
2012-2013
Member of the expert group at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland responsible for preparing recommendations for family policy
2011
Expertise on family-friendly policies for the Senate of the Republic of Poland (with I.E. Kotowska and A. Baranowska)
2011
Member of the expert group which prepared research tools for assessing integration of women in the labour market at the regional and local level, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Poland
2003 – 2005
Projections of social expenditures, expertise for the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Poland
TEACHING
Bachelor level
- Statistics (in Polish) – practical sessions, Warsaw School of Economics, academic years 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010
- Statistics (in English) – lecture and computer labs, Warsaw School of Economics, academic years 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013
- Demography (in Polish), selected lectures, Warsaw School of Economics, academic years 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013
- Demography (in English), selected lectures, Warsaw School of Economics, academic years 2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013
MASTER LEVEL
- Methods of Duration Data Analysis, lectures, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, academic year 2020/2021
- Demography, selected lectures, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, academic year 2020/2021
PhD level
- Consequences of demographic change (in English), European Doctoral School of Demography in the academic years 2013/2014 and 2014/2015; 8 hours per academic year
Executive level
- Data Analysis and Reasoning in Business (in English), MBA Programme, Warsaw School of Economics, 2010/2011 (15 teaching hours)
- Quantitative Methods of Decision Making (in English), MBA Programme, University of Warsaw, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 (30 teaching hours each year)
PROMOTION OF STUDENTS
- Bachelor students: 8 bachelor students over the period 2010-2013, Warsaw School of Economics
- Master students: 1 master student at the Warsaw School of Economics in the academic year 2012/2013, 1 master student at the Rostock University in 2009 (secondary supervisor)
- PhD students:
- secondary supervisor of PhD thesis “Interdependencies between marital instability and fertility” (PhD candidate: Marta Styrc), defended in June 2016, Warsaw School of Economics;
- secondary supervisor of PhD thesis “Economic Uncertainty and Fertility” (PhD candidate: Giammarco Alderotti), defended in February 2020, University of Rome
PhD COMMITTEES
- Member of the PhD Committee at the University of Trento, scheduled for October 2019 (PhD candidate Mattia Oliviero, supervisor: prof. Stefani Scherer)
- Member of the PhD Committee at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, February 2019 (PhD candidate Alessandro Di Nallo, supervisor: prof Gosta Esping-Andersen)
- Member of the PhD Committee at the Cracow Economic University, November 2017 (PhD candidate Beata Osiewalska, supervisor: prof Jolanta Kurkiewicz)