Prof. Marek Walancik, PhD, is an educator, author and researcher in the field of education, security and interculturalism. He heads the Department of Pedagogy and is the director of the Centre for Research and Education of Uniformed Services at the WSB Academy in D¿browa Górnicza. Since 2018, he has been the chair of the Scientific Council for the Scientific Discipline of Pedagogy, and since 2024, he has been the chair of the Education for Safety Section of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous monographs and scientific publications (over 150), including key works on education, safety education, threats and social and intercultural issues. In 2017, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for his scientific and social achievements. He actively promotes education and activities for safety in the media and social environment. He is a member of many scientific bodies and teams.
Prof. Iwona Klonowska, PhD, is a retired police brigadier general and from 2020 to 2024 was the rector of the Police Academy in Szczytno, Poland. A long-time police officer and academic teacher, she specialises in psychology, pedagogy, internal security and psychotraumatology. Her scientific interests also include criminology and investigative psychology. For many years, she held managerial positions in police organisational units, as well as in police education institutions, where she actively participated in shaping the education system for uniformed services. She was the creator and co-creator of many police training programmes. During her term as rector, studies in the field of cybercrime for police personnel were established, and cooperation was established with key institutions supporting the training of police officers, such as the UKNF. She focuses on the educational role and effects of AI on humans on their mental state, development opportunities and social threats.
She is a graduate of higher education in psychology and social rehabilitation pedagogy. She completed specialised postgraduate studies in transport psychology (University of Warsaw), organisational unit management (WSPol), counselling and psychological assistance (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), public relations (University of Warsaw) and psychotraumatology (EUST). She is a habilitated doctor of social sciences in the field of pedagogy. Author and editor of more than 160 publications that include monographs, scientific articles and expert studies in the field of security, crime prevention and organisation and management in the police, she is the secretary of the Education for Security Section of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. A member of the Polish Psychological Association, she is a long-time editor-in-chief of the magazine Policja 997 (Police 997) and the scientific journals Przegl¿d Policyjny (Police Review), Internal Security (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) and Resocjalizacja Polska (Polish Rehabilitation).
During her service in the police and her academic work, she was involved in research projects and international police cooperation. She has been awarded numerous medals and distinctions by the ministry and the state.
Colonel Michä Bukowski, PhD, is the engineer director of the Criminal Service Institute of the Faculty of Security and Legal Sciences at the Police Academy in Szczytno, is a police officer with many years of experience in preventive and criminal services, as well as in the field of operational analysis, and is a graduate of engineering and master's studies in the field of electronics, telecommunications and communications, followed by doctoral studies completed with a doctoral dissertation in technical informatics.
He specialises in internal security, combating criminal offences, cybercrime and the use of modern technologies, especially AI in operational and investigative work. He is the author and co-author of scientific publications in the field of forensics, criminology of internal security, state security, cybercrime and cybersecurity (CS). As the director of the Institute of Criminal Service at the Police Academy in Szczytno, he co-ordinates the scientific and teaching activities of the unit, supervises research work and implements projects related to the development of modern methods and tools, mainly for the criminal service.
