Academic degrees

2017 – Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Economics, Postgraduate in basic finance and accounting;

2013 – Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of Intellectual Property Law, Postgraduate studies in Intellectual Property Law;

2010 - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Political Science Faculty, Department of International Relations, doctoral degree in political sciences;

2003 – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Political Science Faculty, Master of arts in political sciences

Employment: positions and functions

2023 - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Computer Modeling, Head of the Unit for Social and Legal Issues;

2015-2019 - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Political Sciences, Faculty Coordinator for the Erasmus Plus Program;

2011 – Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Political Sciences and Journalism, Institute of Political Sciences and Administration, Assistant professor;

2003-2010 - Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations, Teaching assistant.

Academic and expert positions, functions and activities:

1. Member of the Committee on Polar Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (CPR, PAS) for the term 2023-2026;
2. Member of the Presidium of the Committee on Polar Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (CPR, PAS) for the term 2023-2026;
3. Delegate of the CPR, PAS to Social & Human Sciences Working Group, International Arctic Science Committee;
4. Alternate delegate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University to the Council of the Polish Polar Consortium;
5. Delegate of the Polish Polar Consortium to the Polar Expert Group of the EU-PolarNet2 (Task 5);
6. Expert in the working group on regional smart specializations strategy for Lubelskie Region (area of expertise: bioeconomy in food sector), Marshal Office of Lubelskie Region, Lublin (Poland) (2017-2019)
7. Vice-president of the Polish Association of European Studies (Lubelskie region) (2015-2019); 
8. Institutional representative to the Council of the European Consortium for Political Research (2019-ongoing);
9. Expert in the LkBio Lubelskie Biotechnology Cluster, Lublin (Poland) (2017-2020);
10. Guest researcher at the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (06/2022-07/2022);
11. Guest researcher at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, DFG, DAAD (05/2022);
12. Guest researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (02/2020-07/2020);
13. Guest researcher at the SciencesPo Lille, France (01/03/2019-31/05/2019);
14. 2017 – Expert-reviewer of the European Commission Horizon 2020 Call: Bio-based innovation for sustainable goods and services - Supporting the development of a European Bioeconomy, BB-08-2017: Strategies for improving the bioeconomy knowledge of the general public (H2020-BB-BG-RUR-SFS-2017-1).
15. Member of the expert panels in NCN, NAWA, NCBiR (from 2018 – ongoing);
16. Guest researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway (01/10/2010-30/06/2011);
17. Guest researcher at the Institute for Global and International Studies, the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D. C., USA (30/09/2009-03/11/2009);

Research areas:
- bioeconomy (bioeconomy governance in the European
Union);

- science diplomacy (SD in Northern Europe);

- modern biotechnology - legal and social dimension;

- intellectual property law.

Research grants:

01/03/2024-04/2025 - investigator in international Polish-Norwegian project HarSval Bilateral initiative aiming at Harmonisation of the Svalbard cooperation (UMO-2023/43/7/ST10/00001). Task: Scientists as knowledge brokers and better science management as a synergy effect of the Polish-Norwegian collaboration

01/10/2022-2026 - principal investigator in OPUS 22 NCN nr 2021/43/B/HS5/01638. Project title: Science diplomacy in the Northern Europe.

2023-2026 – ESS - Member of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University team as part of the Polish consortium participating in the implementation of rounds 11 and 12 of the European Social Survey (ESS).

2021-2023 - Employment in a research-analytical position "Digital Research Infrastructure for Humanities and Art Sciences - DARIAH-PL," Project No. POIR.04.02.00-00-D006/20-00.

06-07/2022 - research project under the NAWA bilateral exchange programme for Poland and the Czech Republic nr PPN/BIL/2020/1/00092, project title: Science diplomacy in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic - the case of the Czech Republic.

12/12/2020-08/2022 - Miniatura 4, NCN (2020/04/X/HS5/01249), project title: Diplomacy for science in the EU - the case of Germany.

01/02/2020-01/07/2020 - Visegrad International Fund - research stay. Project title: 'Diplomacy for science in the EU - the case of the Czech Republic'; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

03/2019-06/2019 - French Government Research Grant: Diplomacy for science in the EU - the case of France, SciencePo Lille.
01/10/2010-30/06/2011 - postdoc research grant: "Biotechnologies and the right to adequate food", Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway; financed by EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism;
05/2009-09/2010 - Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education research grant, No. NN
116250936. Project title: Genetically Modified Food as a Factor of International Relations;
30/09/2009-03/11/2009 - research visit at the Institute for Global and International Studies, the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D. C., USA;
05/2009 - Launched a joint research project (Food and Gender Faculty, Hohenheim University,
Germany and Human Rights Center, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland) entitled “The Human Right to Food and Adequate Nutrition: Building Curriculum and Research Approaches";
2002 - Robert Bosch Foundation grant for a two-months traineeship in the Group of
Greens/European Free Alliance (office of Mercedes Escherer, Deputy to the European Parliament) and in the Lubelskie-Podlaskie Euro Office in Brussels.

Memberships and affiliations:
2015 - present - vice-president of the Polish Association of European Studies (Lubelskie region);
2015 - present - Geography Association in Poland;
2014 - present - EkoLubelszczyzna Association;
2006-2009 - International Studies Association;
2004-2008 - Polish Political Science Association;

Selected publications:

For the updates go to: Monika Szkarłat (researchgate.net)
1. M. Szkarlat, Genetically modified food in international relations, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2011. (in Polish)
2. P. Tosiek, M. Wicha (Szkarlat), European Parliament. Political and Legal Study, Lublin 2007.
3. M. Wicha (Szkarlat), Social Preferences of European Integration Vision Based on the Analysis of Support for the Constitution for Europe, [in:] European Union and Poland Towards Integration Dilemmas in the Dawn of 21st Century, ed. by M. Stolarczyk, Toruń 2006, p. 49-70. (in Polish)
4. M. Wicha (Szkarlat), European Community Regulations in the Area of Research, Production, and Trade of Transgenic Food, “European Studies" 2008, No. 2, p. 118-144. (in Polish)
5. M. Wicha (Szkarlat), Developing Countries Dilemmas Towards Genetically Modified Food, [in:] New World Order Creation in the Beginning of 21st Century, ed. by A. Chodubski, M. Malinowski, E. Polak, P. Trawicki, Foundation for Gdansk University Development, Gdansk 2007, p. 134-144. (in Polish)

6. M. Wicha (Szkarlat), Genetically Modified Food as Transnational Corporations' Field of Interest, [in:] Postwestphalian World Order, ed. by M. Pietraś, K. Marzęda, UMCS Publishing House, Lublin 2008, p. 442-458. (in Polish)

7. M. Wicha (Szkarlat), Social Perception of Genetically Modified Food – selected states analysis, “Pulawski Journal" 2010, Issue 151 (in Polish).
8. M. Szkarlat, The Contribution of Genetically Modified Food to the Realization of the Right to
Adequate Food, "Nordic Journal of Human Rights"2013,Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 4-27.
9. M. Szkarlat, Biotechnology as a Subject of International Regulations, [in:] Economic and Social Dimension of Biotechnology, ed. by T. Twardowski, PWN Publishing House, Warsaw 2011, p. 121-170.
10. M. Szkarłat, Genetically Modified Food Global Governance - Theoretical Approach, [in:] Issues in International Politics, Economy, and Governance, ed. by Yannis A. Stivachtis & Christopher Price, ATINER 2014, p. 237-250.
11. M. Szkarłat, The Human Rights Interdependence - Right to Adequate Food Case, "Annales
Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska. Sectio K. Politologia" 2014, Vol. XXI, Nr. 2, p. 65-84.
12. M. Szkarłat, Agrobiotechnology as a Factor of the Right to Adequate Food Realization, [in:]
Economic Security from Political Science Perspective - Selected Topics, ed. by K. M. Ksiezopolski, K. Pronińska, ELIPSA Publishing House, Warsaw 2012, p. 107-125.
13. M. Szkarłat, The consumers' right to information – genetically modified food case, [in:] New
Technologies as a Factor of International Relations, M. Szkarłat, K. Mojska (eds.), Cambridge
Scholars Publishing 2016, p. 311-331.
14. M. Szkarłat, K. Mojska, Introduction, [in:] New Technologies as a Factor of International Relations, ed. by M. Szkarłat, K. Mojska, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016, p. xi-2.
15. M. Szkarłat, Economic wars - food dimension, [in:] The Contemporary economic and trade wars, ed. by J. Płaczek, Defin Publishing House, Warsaw 2015, p. 189-220.
16. M. Szkarłat, Risk Governance of GMOs in the European Union, "TEKA, Polish Commission of
Political Sciences and International Relations" 2015, No. 10/1, p. 121-142.
17. M. Szkarłat, The Europeanization of agricultural policy, [in:] The Europeanization of public policies in Poland, ed. by R. Riedel, Opolski University Press, 2016, p. 113-134.
18. M. Szkarłat, Bioeconomy in the EU's and Polish policy, [in:] The European integration. Main research areas, ed. by K. Wojtaszczyk, J. Tymanowski, P. Stawarz, Warsaw University Press, Warsaw 2015, p. 387-402.