Magdalena Grzyb

Magdalena Grzyb (born 1984) is a Polish criminologist, academic teacher at the Jagiellonian University and opinion journalist.

Biography She is the daughter of Wieńczysław Grzyb, lawyer from Żywiec; sister of lawyer Przemysław Grzyb.

From 2003 to 2008, she studied law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. In 2015, she obtained a PhD in law from the same faculty for her thesis Kryminologiczne i prawnokarne aspekty przestępstw motywowanych kulturowo (Criminological and Criminal Aspects of Culturally Motivated Crimes), supervised by . In 2025 she obtained a habilitation degree.

She was elected secretary of the Criminology Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. In September 2023, she became a member of the supervisory board of the .

She published a monograph Kobieta jako ofiara zabójstwa. Studium kryminologiczne (Woman as a Victim of Murder. A Criminological Study, 2024). She co-authored the book Kryminologia: zarys systemu (Criminology: Outline of the System, 2022; together with Jan Widacki, and Anna Szuba-Boroń).

Magdalena Grzyb has described herself as a “cursed feminist” and a victim of cancel culture. Her journalistic texts have appeared on the portal and Gazeta Wyborcza. In December 2021, her lecture as part of the 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence event at the Jagiellonian University sparked protests following accusations of transphobia against Magdalena Grzyb. At that time, Przemysław Czarnek, the Minister of Education and Science, defended Magdalena Grzyb. testified in court as a witness in the case.