Dr. Pawel Kubicki is a sociologist and anthropologist, Associate Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University, specialist in the study of sociocultural urban space. He has participated in many international research projects on urban topics, including: "Ethnological Understanding of Cultural Diversity in Central European Urban Spaces," "La Place un patrimoine europée, The Square: a European Heritage," "RECON Reconstituting Democracy in Europe." He is the author of the book Miasto w sieci znaczeń. Kraków i jego tożsamości (The City in the Network of Meanings: Krakow and Its Identity, 2010) and the report Nowi mieszczanie w nowej Polsce (New Townspeople in the New Poland, 2011).