Michał Matlak

Łukasiewicz – ITECH Institute of Innovation and Technology

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Łódź, co-founder of the European Centre for Constitutional Studies, where he works on strategic autonomy, sovereignty, and the European constitutional order. He is the originator and co-creator of the European Union Security Initiative, a project that brings together EU member state governments, the European Commission, and academia in a debate on security and defence.

In 2021, he co-founded the journal Review of Democracy, published by the CEU Democracy Institute, which he subsequently led as editor-in-chief. He is also the co-founder and coordinator of the Enlargement Hub, which brings together leading European research units focused on preparing the European Union for enlargement.

For many years he served in analytical and advisory roles in the European Parliament, working on science, defence, and foreign policy.

He earned his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, where he works as a senior fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He has held research stays at Princeton University, the Université de Montréal, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and the Hertie School in Berlin. He has participated in ERC and Horizon projects, gaining experience with prestigious research grants.

He has also published in, among others, Le Monde, The New York Review of Books, Esprit, Rzeczpospolita, and Gazeta Wyborcza.