Professional experience
I combined my educational background in international economics (MSc in 2001), marketing and management (MSc in 2003) and economics (PhD in 2005) with life-long interest in nature (birdwatching and evolutionary theory, in particular) to become an ecological economist.
Current research projects
Economic valuation of ‘Stork Villages’
In 2011, we surveyed tourists in two ‘Stork Villages’ in Poland: Klopot (Lubuskie province) and Zywkowo (Warmia and Mazury province) within a research project that aims at estimating the economic and social benefits related to storks. Similar research projects carried out in Poland and abroad help to understand the economic value of nature, providing new arguments for environmental protection. The project is carried out by a team of researchers from four Polish universities: Lodz, Warsaw, Poznan (Life Sciences) and Zielona Gora. It is funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant no. N N112 292339). The project is carried out in partnership with the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds and the White Stork Museum in Klopot. Preliminary results will be available soon.
Urban ecosystem services
Within the Sendzimir Foundation we are running a big project on urban ecosystem services. It involved an international seminar (see the presentations here), an international summer academy, and two research projects: (1) on administrative and institutional barriers to the preservation of trees in Polish cities, and (2) on the economic value of street trees in the centre of Lodz. The results will be published in Polish and English in a guide for city authorities in March 2012, along with a Polish translation of the TEEB Manual for Cities. See our brochure for more details on how the different elements of our project are interrelated.
Ecosystem service curse
Within this small project funded by the British Council, together with Klaus Hubacek (University of Maryland), we explore the risks related to potential up-scaling of payments for ecosystem services. See a preliminary presentation from a workshop on PES held at the Isle of Vilm and watch out for more details.
Professional experience
| 10.2005 —date |
Lecturer in international and environmental economics Department of International Economics, University of Lodz, Poland |
| 09.2010—10.2010 | Visiting lecturer Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
| 08.2010—09.2010 | Visiting research fellow Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University of East Anglia, United Kingdom |
| 07.2010—08.2010 | Visiting research fellow School of Earth and Environment (SEE), University of Leeds, United Kingdom |
| 08.2007—06.2008 | Visiting professor American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic |
| 03.2004—03.2005 | Research fellow School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, Keele University, United Kingdom |
| 07.2002 —date |
Research and educational activities, member of the board Sendzimir Foundation |
| 08.2001—05.2003 | Environmental management consultant UNDP Umbrella Project, Poland |
| 01—03.2001 | Intern World Trade Organization (WTO), Economic Research and Analysis Division, Switzerland |