Gabriela Czarnek

Gabriela was an Academic Visitor to the Psychometrics Centre in Cambridge Judge Business School (2018-19) where she worked on a project mining and analysing Twitter data to study the interaction of aging and psychological phenomena online.

Gabriela obtained her MA in psychology in 2012 at Jagiellonian University (Cracow, Poland). In 2014 she completed an Educational Measurement Programme taught by an international team of researchers. In 2018 she earned her PhD in psychology under supervision of Prof. Malgorzata Kossowska (Jagiellonian University) and Dr. Michael Richter (Liverpool John Moores University). Her work focused on social cognition and psychophysiology especially in the context of socio-emotional aging.

Gabriela also has some professional experience in applied settings, including in the gaming industry where she worked on developing professional simulators for firefighters’ training. Her focus as a psychometric researcher in this role was focussed on modeling for personality traits and attitudes.

Gabriela’s current research interests include aging and social psychological research using computational methods and predictive modeling.