Warsaw Talent Cluster: Warszawski Klaster Talentów

Full Professor of Social Sciences Department of Economics
CRASH Center For Research on Social Change and Human Mobility

Prof. Izabela Grabowska, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Professor of Social Sciences, sociologist, and economist. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warsaw, an M.A. in Economics from University College Dublin, and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Wrocław. Her professorial proceedings in social sciences were conducted by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN). She is a recipient of the Foundation for Polish Science Fellowship and has held research fellowships at Humboldt University in Berlin (ERC grant), Utrecht University (visiting professor), and University College London (visiting scholar).

She has supervised seven completed Ph.D. dissertations and over 70 master's theses. Professor Grabowska is the author of more than 60 scholarly publications in prestigious international and Polish outlets. She has been awarded numerous competitive research grants, including Horizon Europe (as Scientific Coordinator of the global consortium for the Link4Skills project www.link4skills.eu), Horizon 2020 (MIMY project, as leader of the Polish team), and several major grants from the National Science Centre of Poland (OPUS, Sonata Bis www.mymigration.academy), Harmonia, and KBM). She is co-creator and first Principal Investigator of European University Alliance EUonAIR: AI in Curricula, Smart UniverCity and (Return) Mobility www.euonair.eu and mobility assessment dashboard www.mymobility.academy.

In 2021, she joined Kozminski University (ALK) as a member of the Department of Economics, where she founded and now leads the CRASH Center (Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility).

Between 2005 and 2021, she served as assistant professor and university professor at SWPS University. From 2016 to 2021, she was Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at SWPS. She also established and led two major research initiatives: the Youth Research Center / Youth in the Centre Lab (2015–2019) and the Mobility Research Group (2020–2021).

Her research focuses on labor markets, human capital, international labor migration, and careers. Her long-term studies emphasize the role of international work experience in shaping human capital, especially social competences, and explore the dynamics of social remittances in transnational contexts. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, International Migration, and Social Policy and Society. Her books have appeared with key academic publishers including Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, UCL Press, Amsterdam University Press, and Scholar.

From 2008 to 2019, she was actively involved in the governance of IMISCOE, the largest European research network on migration and integration. Since 2009, she has served as an expert for the European Commission on the European Mobility Partnership/Laboratory and ESCO (European Classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), and currently contributes to the Employment Labour Agency and EURES. For over a decade, she has provided training through EY (Bologna, Brussels) for public employment services across Europe.

More about her work can be found at: www.izabelagrabowska.org

Ivanna Kyliushyk is a Doctor of Social Sciences, political scientist, and sociologist specialising in international migration, with a particular focus on Ukrainian migration. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Warsaw, where she defended a dissertation on the political rights and participation of foreigners in Poland. She also completed a M.A. in Eastern Studies and is in the process of completing her M.A. in Applied Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. She is a member of the Polish Sociological Association, within the Migration Sociology and Qualitative Sociology sections.

Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Kozminski University’s CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility, where she works on several national and international projects, including Link4Skills (Horizon Europe 2023–2026) and BigMig: Digital and Non-Digital Traces of Migrants in Big and Small Data Approaches to Human Capacities (National Science Centre, Poland, 2021–2025). She is also involved in projects focusing on highly skilled migrants and return migration (Warsaw Talent Cluster and Returning Talents to Warsaw, in cooperation with the Warsaw City Hall, 2024–2025). Previously, she contributed to the CareOrg project at Goethe University Frankfurt (2025) and to MIMY: Empowerment through Liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in Vulnerable Conditions (Horizon Europe 2020–2023).

She has published in leading international journals such as Mobilities, Migration Studies, Frontiers in Sociology, and Forum: Qualitative Social Research, among others. She is also a co-author of the monograph Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances (Routledge, 2025). She regularly presents her research at major national and international conferences, including IMISCOE.

She also has extensive professional experience in the NGO sector, having served as a long-term coordinator of integration programmes at the Ukrainian House Foundation in Warsaw. Her work bridges academic research, public policy, and social change.

Research interests: international migration, Ukrainian migration, female migration, migrants’ capitals, labour market, and socio-political inclusion. Her expertise lies in conducting qualitative social research.

PhD of Information Technology, scientific researcher in Social Informatics, academic lecturer, Associate of the Center for Research on Social Change and Mobility (CRASH)

Post doc in the research project “BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities” carried out at the Kozminski University in Warsaw (Poland), under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Izabela Grabowska. 

He conducts research in the realm of Social Informatics with use of natural language processing, text mining, big data analysis, processing of data from social media, Wikipedia, dialogue systems. 

Since 2019 Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer Technology- Warsaw, Poland (PJATK). In 2019 he defended his PhD thesis   “Formal model, methods and algorithms for detecting controversy of Wikipedia articles and search queries”. 

Social researcher in the field of sociological, cultural and political sciences.

PhD student at the University of Warsaw's Interdisciplinary Doctoral School. The main research topic of his doctoral studies is national identity. Research interests also include international relations, migration and diasporic issues. Qualitative researcher in many scientific projects, including OPUS and foreign projects, such as. Aspirations for return and secondary migration among Ukrainian refugees, project No: 83347, managed by The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research and funded by Norwegian Directorate of Immigration.

At the Kozminski University he is a researcher in project “BigMig: Digital and non-digital traces of migrants in Big and Small Data approaches to human capacities” (2020/37/B/HS6/02342 OPUS), which is financed by Poland’s National Science Centre; and in project Warsaw Talent Cluster. Since May 2024 he has been a Research Assistant in Link 4 Skill Project (Horizon Europe). 

HR Expert, Strategist, Analyst, and Project Manager

I am an HR expert and business partner with nearly 20 years of experience in human resources management, workforce analytics, compensation, and payroll systems. My career has allowed me to work across both public administration and the private sector, which helps me integrate the perspectives of business, local government, and academia in the projects I lead.

I specialize in designing data-driven HR strategies that improve organizational efficiency, support strategic decision-making, and optimize costs. With strong skills in tools such as Power BI, Excel, and SAP, I create advanced reports, forecasts, and budget analyses that provide a solid foundation for innovative human capital management solutions.

Over the years, I have managed numerous international projects in human capital development, academic and professional mobility, and labor market integration. I have worked closely with the Warsaw Municipality as a liaison between universities, businesses, and local administration, contributing to programs that foster mobility, migrant integration, and talent management at the city level.
Alongside my academic and public sector activities, I work as an HR consultant at HRrebels, where I focus on HR regulations, compensation analysis, and audits. This role allows me to combine hands-on business consulting with my broader strategic and analytical expertise.

As a certified HR Business Partner and a graduate of Korea University, I gained valuable international experience in managing cultural diversity and human resources. At Kozminski University, I play a leading role in the EUonAIR and Holistic Mobility Support Center projects, where I coordinate the development of digital tools for academic and professional mobility, design career counseling frameworks, and build partnerships with universities and institutions across Europe.

I have published in professional journals, spoken at HR industry conferences, and contributed to research projects at CRASH – Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility. I am passionate about innovation and interdisciplinary approaches, and I enjoy creating solutions that help organizations and institutions fully realize the potential of their people.

Outside of work, I practice taekwondo and love traveling, both of which shape my global perspective on leadership and management.