Biography

Michał Gulczyński earned his PhD in Political Sociology from Bocconi University in 2024. During his PhD, he visited Brown University and the European University Institute.

Michał studies various aspects of gender inequalities, applying perspectives from demography, political science, and sociology. His dissertation includes chapters on sex-selective rural-urban migration, men’s issues in the European Union’s gender equality policies, and gender gaps in voting behaviour. In other projects, he uses causal inference methods to study politicians’ attempts to increase voter turnout and various consequences of electoral reforms.

As a Max Weber Fellow, Michał aims to explain reversed gender gaps in education. He wants to understand why the gaps are larger in some countries than in others, and find solutions to the underachievement of boys and men.

Michał has gained teaching experience as a teaching assistant for several courses at Bocconi, and as an educator collaborating with several organizations in Poland. Before the PhD, Michał obtained BA degrees in International Economics and Iberian Studies from the University of Warsaw and MA degrees in East European Studies from the Free University Berlin and in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe. He spent exchange semesters at the University of Chile, Xaverian Pontifical University of Bogotá, University of Barcelona, Higher School of Economics in Moscow and University of Padua. He also completed traineeships at the European Commission and four Polish embassies.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Inequality, welfare and social justice

Mentor

• Juho Härkönen