I am a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, with a background in social communication, theatre studies, and interactive media and performances. In my research, I explore how new technologies (re)shape our understanding of death, loss, grief, and afterlife presence. My work intersects the fields of technology, culture, and thanatology.
For the last ten years, as a coordinator, initiator, or co-leader, I have been running educational, artistic, social, and scientific projects on a local, national, and international level. From 2020-2023, I held an individual grant entitled “Immortality. Contemporary Technocultural Strategies,” funded by the Polish National Science Center. In February 2022, I defended (with distinction) my doctoral thesis. In 2024 my thesis was awarded by the National Centre for Culture in Poland as one of the three best PhDs defended in cultural studies in Poland between 2021 and 2023 and in 2022 it received recognition in the nationwide Inka Brodzka-Wald Award competition for the best doctoral thesis on contemporary issues.
Since 2020 I have been collaborating with the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, developing the idea of (im)mortality studies. In 2021 I co-organized and co-moderated (with Dr Stephen Cave) an international conference Digital (Im)mortality. Philosophy, Ethics and Design. I am also a team member of an international scientific consortium ‘Digital Death. Transforming History, Ritual, and Afterlife’ (as a part of EU CHANSE Call on Transformations: Social and Cultural Dynamics in The Digital Age).
The latest article, which I co-authored with Dr. Tomasz Hollanek, on the ethical and social implications of simulating the deceased using artificial intelligence in the form of so-called “deadbots,” has gained worldwide coverage, including in major UK media outlets such as BBC World News, The Times, The Guardian, and The Independent as well as in many non-English media outlets, including in Korea, Brazil, Iran, Spain, Egypt, Germany, Croatia, Madrid, Poland, Norway, the United States, and India.
In 2024, I was recognized by Schmidt Science as one of the 19 most exceptional global researchers addressing the so-called ‘hard problems of AI’ within the AI2050 Early Career Fellowship. Over the next two years, I will be leading research titled “Imaginaries of Immortality in the Age of AI: An Intercultural Analysis,” aiming to understand the context-specific meanings of AI for our relation to detah and immortality.