Professor Marek Kwiek holds the UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy at the AMU University of Poznan, Poland. He is the Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies (CPPS). His research areas are sociology of science and higher education research and policy. His focus is on international research collaboration, academic productivity, and social stratification in science. His recent monograph is Changing European Academics (Routledge, 2019). His recent invited seminars include Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Beijing, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and many European universities. A coordinating editor of Higher Education, an editorial board member of Higher Education Quarterly and British Educational Research Journal. A Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in Salzburg and Academia Europaea in London. Elsevier and Stanford University have listed him among the top 2% of most highly cited scientists in the world in the past five years.