SWPS University

SWPS University is where I’ve spent the last twenty years. I joined the Department of Psychological Research Methodology in 2006 and never fully left. I earned my MSc, PhD, and a postgraduate diploma in UX Design here. For nearly two decades, my work has sat at the intersection of research methodology, psychometrics, experimental design, and quantitative training for psychology students — from foundational courses through advanced seminars.

The Experimental Psychology Laboratory

From 2010 to 2024, I directed the Experimental Psychology Laboratory. In practice, that meant supporting experimental research across the department, shaping standards of methodological rigor, and helping students and researchers translate broad interests into workable studies with defensible designs. It was the space where empirical psychology was treated seriously — where ideas had to survive contact with data before they earned the right to be called findings.

Teaching

I teach advanced research methods, psychometrics, data analysis, and R programming. The courses cover study design, statistical modeling, psychometric instrument construction and validation, competency assessment methodology, and evidence-based research design. The emphasis is always applied: how to design a study that produces defensible conclusions, how to build a measurement instrument that actually works, how to choose an analysis that matches the question, and how to recognize where intuition fails without evidence. I’ve guided students from turning vague interests into concrete research questions to producing empirically workable study designs and completed theses.

Part of what I teach is psychometric tool development — how to construct, validate, and interpret measurement instruments. That’s the direct bridge to everything I build commercially. The same discipline that goes into a well-validated research scale goes into the assessment systems at Gyfted and the progression logic at Nerds.family.

Research

My research focuses on social cognition, self-concept, cognitive accessibility, and intergroup processes. Alongside the substantive psychology, I’ve worked on methodological questions — measurement, inference, and how to handle messy real-world behavioral data that doesn’t arrive clean or balanced. The work has appeared in journals including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Frontiers in Psychology, and Personality and Individual Differences.

Research has been supported through nationally competitive funding from Poland’s National Science Centre (NCN, including Maestro and OPUS grants) and the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR). The methodological stance that runs through all of it — careful design, construct validity, replication awareness, and resistance to weak inference — is the same stance I carry into applied work.

The Bridge

SWPS is one of Poland’s leading private universities, particularly strong in psychology and social sciences. The academic work grounds everything I do commercially. Psychometric validation at Gyfted. Capability measurement at Nerds.family. Experimental discipline in growth testing and product decisions at Digital Savages. The UX Design diploma added another layer — a sharper sensitivity to how complex systems are experienced by the people who actually use them.

Academia taught me to slow down before drawing conclusions, define constructs carefully, and treat elegant stories with suspicion unless the data supports them. SWPS is where the habit of building only what can be defended was formed.