Biography

Michał Bilewicz is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the founder of the Center for Research on Prejudice at the same institution. He also serves as the vice-president of the Committee of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and president-elect of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). His research focuses on the psychological mechanisms behind antisemitic prejudice, the studies of collective memory and Holocaust remembrance, as well as contemporary Jewish identities. He developed the three-factor scale to measure antisemitic prejudice that has been widely used in survey research on antisemitism.

Dr. Bilewicz is the co-author of The Psychology of Conspiracy (Routledge, 2015) and has contributed to several edited volumes on political psychology and intergroup relations. His work has been supported by funding from the Polish National Science Centre (NCN), the European Commission, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), and the Rothschild Foundation. He has received numerous awards for his scholarly contributions, including the Nevitt Sanford Award from the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP).

Dr. Bilewicz earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Warsaw in 2005. He was a DAAD post-doctoral scholar at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany), a Fulbright Junior Scholar at the New School for Social Research (USA), a visiting professor at the University of Leipzig (Germany), and an affiliated professor at the University of Delaware (USA).