Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska is a faculty affiliate at Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and an associate professor at the Centre for Evaluation and Analysis of Public Policies at the Jagiellonian University. She received her master’s degree in quantitative methods (2003), her doctoral degree in economics (2008) and post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in sociology (2016). Her research interests are in methodology including impact assessment and evaluation as well as psychometrics, composite scales, and indicators. Her recent focus is on determinants of positive health and human flourishing.

From 2017 to 2021 she was a research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 2011 to 2017 she worked for the European Commission Joint Research Centre as a post-doctoral researcher and a senior research fellow. Between 2010 and 2012 she was appointed an assistant professor at the Educational Research Institute in Poland. Between 2003 and 2015 she held an academic appointment at the Warsaw School of Economics, as an assistant professor as well as research and teaching assistant.
To date, she published more than 80 papers in peer reviewed journals, 7 book chapters, and 2 books.

Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska is a principal investigator of the NCN-POLS grant: Positive Health Program, for which the support was provided by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021. She is also a team member of the Global Flourishing Study, which has been carried out in collaboration between scholars at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard and Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, and in partnership with Gallup and the Center for Open Science.