Luciana Alexandra GHICA

Associate Professor

Represented university / institution
University of Bucharest (FSPUB)

Title of the course/talk
Political science publishing in the age of artificial intelligence: Research Opportunities and Challenges to Scientific Integrity

Luciana Alexandra GHICA is Associate Professor of Global Governance and European Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest (FSPUB), where she also acts as founding Director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC). She studied political science and international relations at the University of Bucharest, Central European University and University of Oxford, where she specialized in the analysis of international cooperation processes, with a focus on the institutional and discursive impact of democratization on policymaking. In these areas she coordinated several national and international projects, some of which included fieldwork in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Author of several studies on international cooperation and foreign policy in democratizing contexts, she is also the editor of the first Romanian encyclopaedia of the European Union (c2005, 2nd ed. 2006, 3rd ed. 2007) and co-editor of the first Romanian handbook of security studies (2007; Book of the month distinction by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). For almost two decades she has been also a recurrent guest lecturer of the Romanian Diplomatic Institute and the European Institute in Romania (both under the aegis of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for professional training on global and European policies of international cooperation for development, EU institutions, and the analysis of diplomatic language. In addition, during the last decade and a half, she specialized in the study of political science as a discipline. In this area, since 2012, she has been serving as elected member of the board of Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Between 2015 and 2021, she also served as member of the international advisory board of International Studies Review (isr.oxfordjournals.org). Currently, she coordinates the Jean Monnet module EU as a Global Digital Actor (2024-2027) and she is also part of the research teams of the EU-funded projects DD-Tech: Digital Diplomacy – Building the Common Future with Technology and TRUEDEM: Trust in European Democracies. Her latest publications include Luciana Alexandra GHICA (2021) Who Are We? The Diversity Puzzle in European Political Science. European Political Science 20(1): 58-84, and Luciana Alexandra GHICA (2024) Transforming International Development: Navigating the Shift towards Digital Cooperation. In The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy, eds. Corneliu Bjola & Ilan Manor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wojciech Szczęsny

profesor nauk medycznych

professor of medical sciences

Title of the course/talk
Od kamiennego ostrza do robota da Vinci, czyli krótki kurs historii chirurgii

Bibliographic data of three selected publications
1) Szczęsny W., Fisz J., Żuchowski P., Niedojadło J., Szmytkowski J., Dabrowiecki S. Ultrastructural Differences in Rectus Sheath of Hernia Patients and Healthy Controls. J Surg Res 2011 May 15: 167(20 : e171-5
2) Szczęsny W., Głowacka K., Marszałek A., Gumański R., Szmytkowski J., Dąbrowiecki S. The ultrastructure of the fascia lata in hernia patients and healthy control. J Surg Res 2012 Jan; 172(1):e33-7
3) Szczęsny W., Bodnar M., Dąbrowiecki S., Szmytkowski J., Marszałek A. Histologic and immunohistochemical studies of rectus sheath in obese patients. J Surg Res 2013 Apr 180(2): 360-5

Research interests
historia medycyny, popularyzacja nauki