Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies
Head of the UNESCO Chair for Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

For the past twenty-five years, Professor Marek Kwiek has conducted international research on the institution of the university in the fields of science studies and quantitative research on science. He serves as an international advisor on science policy (OECD, European Commission, Council of Europe, European Parliament, OSCE, USAID, UNDP, and the World Bank). He has been the leader or partner in 25 international research projects funded by organizations such as the Fulbright, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations, the 6th and 7th EU Framework Programmes, the European Science Foundation, NCN, NCBR, and FNP. Additionally, he has led around 25 international public policy projects in the field of higher education in several countries. His research interests focus on scientific collaboration, research productivity, and social stratification in science. The author of 230 publications and 10 monographs. Recently gave invited seminars at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Beijing, Shanghai, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Paris. His most recent books include Changing European Academics: A Comparative Study of Social Stratification, Work Patterns and Research Productivity (Routledge, 2019) and two monographs for the Scientific Publishing House PWN: The University in Times of Change: Institutions and Academic Staff in Conditions of Increasing Competition (2015) and Global Science, Global Scientists (2022). He has frequently served as an expert for the European Commission, European Parliament, USAID, World Bank, OECD, and UNESCO. His research teams have received over 10 million PLN in funding. From 2012 to 2017, he led the MAESTRO project (NCN): International Comparative Higher Education Research Program, and in 2015 he was awarded a two-year “professorial grant” in the MISTRZ program of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP). A member of the editorial boards of renowned international scientific journals and the coordinating editor of the journal Higher Education. A regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg), Academia Europaea (London), and a member of the Committee on Science Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2024-2028). Listed among the top 2% most cited scientists in the world on the Stanford List (Elsevier and METRICS) for 2022, 2023, and 2024, and the most cited Polish scholar in the field of “Education” on the same list.