Anna Sroka, Ph.D., Professor – Doctor of Political Science (2006) with a habilitation in the field of social sciences (2015), a faculty member at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Warsaw, head of the Department of Internal Security at the undergraduate level (since 2016) and at the graduate level (since 2017). Member of the ECPR Executive Board since 2015. Chair of the IPSA Scientific Committee on “Quality of Democracy” since 2018. Chair of the Polish-Spanish Research Network since 2019. She has participated in various national and international research projects. Lecturer at Antonio de Nebrija University and the National Distance Education University in Madrid (UNED). She has received fellowships from, among others, the Free University of Berlin, the Autonomous University of Madrid, and the University of Trieste.