I hold Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, M.A. in East-European Cultural Studies & International Relations, and B.A. in History & International Relations. I studied at Warsaw University, Poland, and St. Petersburg State University, Russia. In 2022-2023, I did my postdoctoral research at Lund University, Sweden.
My research interests cover identity, politics memory in Central and Eastern Europe and their impact on security, as well as the West-Russia relations.
I lecture at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen. My courses cover EU foreign and defence policies, democratic governance in Europe and various intersections of culture, politics and security.
In late 2026, I founded Cognifare, a research company focusing on northwestern Russian regions and Belarus.
I am Non-Resident Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, responsible for the majority of the Foundation’s papers related to Russia’s domestic and foreign policies.
I have published over 30 academic and public intellectual articles in international journals, as well as authored and co-authored many policy papers and analyses, such as the 2023 Warsaw Security Forum opening report.
In 2024, I authored Denmark’s first comprehensive report on Kaliningrad Oblast, commissioned and published by the Danish Institute for International Studies. In 2025, Routledge published my book Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast.
You can find some of my earlier works under my bachelor name –Zieliński.
I spent nine years in the Polish diplomatic service as, among other functions, Vice-Consul at Poland’s Consulate General in Kaliningrad and Second Secretary at Poland’s Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels.