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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE WORK EXPERIENCE since September European University Institute, Florence 2016 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre since February Hertie School of Governance, Berlin / London School of Economics, London 2015 Postdoctoral fellow at the Dahrendorf Forum – Debating Europe “EU in the World” September 2009 – University of Wroclaw, Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies January 2015 Assistant Professor (Adjunct) (on maternity leave from December 2009 till August 2010) 2009 – 2014 University of Potsdam, Chair of Political Theory Guest lecturer within the Erasmus programme since September German Commission for UNESCO & Robert Bosch Foundation 2008 Trainer and supervisor September – Centre for Eastern Studies,Warsaw December 2008 Project manager COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to International Relations (BA), Introduction to the European Integration (BA), Institutions and decision-making process in the EU (BA and MA), International Organisations (BA and MA), European Foreign and Security Policy (BA and MA), Security challenges (BA), Modern diplomacy (MA) EDUCATION 2005 – 2009 University of Wroclaw, Institute of Political Science PhD in Social Sciences, Thesis: “The role of think tanks in foreign policy of Poland and Germany” 2007 – 2009 University of Chemnitz, Faculty of International Politics Doctoral fellow, Scholarship from Hertie Foundation 2006 – 2007 Free University of Berlin, East-Europe Institute and Otto Suhr Institute Doctoral fellow, Scholarship from DAAD 2002 – 2003 Free University of Berlin, Otto Suhr Institute Erasmus exchange student 1999 – 2004 University of Wroclaw, Faculty of Social Sciences Magister in International Relations 1999 – 2004 University of Economics in Wroclaw, Faculty of International Economies Magister in Economics 1 PRICES AND FELLOWSHIPS Jean Monnet Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, September 2016 – August 2017 (Mentor: Prof. Ulrich Krotz) Scholarship from DAAD for research stay at the University of Leipzig, October – November 2014 Summer grant from the College of Europe for research at the European University Institute, Florence, July and August 2013 Research grant from the EUCE at the University in Pittsburgh, June 2013 Visiting fellowship at the Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes at the University of Montreal, September – October 2012 Prizes from the President of the University of Wroclaw for scientific and teaching achievements, 2010 – 2013 Scholarship for researchers from the EU’s Human Capital Programme, 2010, 2011 and 2014 Scholarship from Hertie Foundation for PhD project and study at the University of Chemnitz, 2006 – 2008 European Research and Mobility Grant for European Studies “Charles V European Award 2006 – Helmut Kohl”, The European Academy of Yuste Foundation, 2006 Scholarship from DAAD for PhD project and study at the Free University in Berlin, 2005 – 2006 EXTERNALLY FOUNDED PROJECTS 2017 – 2019 Pending application for a project on the role of nation states in the European Union, Deutsch – Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung, budget: 98516 euro (with E. Opilowska) 2014 – 2016 The EU foreign policy after the Treaty of Lisbon?, Polish Science Centre (NCN), budget: 25000 euro 2013 – 2014 Transformation of the nation state? Transnational spaces in Europe, Deutsch – Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung, budget: 8000 euro & Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Warsaw, budget: 8000 euro (with E. Opilowska) 2012 – 2014 The transformative power of Europe. Case study: Poland, Polish Science Centre (NCN), budget: 20000 euro, (with Prof. I.P. Karolewski) 2010 – 2012 Evaluation of the Polish EU Council Presidency, Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Warsaw, budget: 6000 euro 2009 Publication of the doctoral thesis, Robert Bosch Foundation, budget: 5000 euro 2006 – 2007 Advisory in Foreign Policy, Doctoral grant, Polish Science Centre (NCN), budget: 10000 euro LANGUAGES Polish – native, German & English – proficient, Italian – basic MEMBERSHIPS ECPR, The European International Studies Association (EISA), Council for European Studies, Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) 2 .
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