Minister of Science Dariusz Wieczorek has appointed Dr hab. Marta Bucholc to the NCN Council. The Council is now restored to a full 24 members.
Dr hab. Marta Bucholc is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw and Chercheuse Associée at Centre de recherche en science politique (CReSPo) at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels. Her interests center on the sociology of law, historical sociology, history of sociology and social theory. Specifically, she specialises in classical German sociology and the figurational theory of Norbert Elias, working to apply the figurational paradigm to the sociological study of legal cultures.
Dr hab. Marta Bucholc is a PI under an ERC Consolidator project, as well as a winner of three NCN calls (currently heading a SONATA BIS project). She also leads a Polish research team in a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. She worked as a research professor at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” at the University of Bonn, in addition to having been a visiting professor at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels and the University of Graz, a visiting bye-fellow at Selwyn College at Cambridge University, a fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and Imre Kertesz Kolleg in Jena, and a project fellow at the University of Munich.
Dr hab. Marta Bucholc has been appointed to serve on the NCN Council until 14 December 2026. She will take the place of Dr hab. Bogusław Przywora, who stepped down in May 2024.
In December this year, half of the current NCN Council Members will conclude their terms. New members, selected from among the candidates recommended by the Identification Team, will be officially appointed by the Minister of Science later this month. The official ceremony is planned to take place before Christmas.