Marek Kwiek

Marek Kwiek is a Polish academic and professor of higher education and science studies. He is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he serves as Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities and holds the UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy.

Academic career Kwiek has been affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań throughout his academic career. He was appointed university professor in 2001 and became a full professor in 2009. He has been director of the university's Center for Public Policy Studies since 2002, and became director of its Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2021. In 2012, he was appointed chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy.

His international academic appointments have included periods at the University of Virginia, the University of California, Berkeley, the National Endowment for Democracy, the UCL Institute of Education, and the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies. He was a Fulbright Foundation Scholar at the University of Virginia from 1994 to 1995 and a Kościuszko Foundation Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1997 to 1998. From 2002 to 2003, he was a Reagan–Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy.

Honors and recognition 2002 – Reagan–Fascell Democracy Fellowship 2002-2003 – Kluge Fellow, John W. Kluge Center 2015 – Master Award from the Foundation for Polish Science 2018 – Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts 2021 – Member of Academia Europaea 2021-2025 – Listed among the top 2 percent of most highly cited researchers worldwide in analyses conducted by Elsevier and Stanford University 2025 – Honorary Doctorate, WSB University

Selected publications