Mikołaj Biesaga

Mgr Mikołaj Biesaga

Stanowisko / Position:

Asystent naukowy / Research Assistant
Doktorant / PhD Candidate

Członek Ośrodka Badań Układów Złożonych i Nowych Technologii.
Member of the Center for Complex Systems and New Technologies and the Global Systems Center at ISS.
Członek Civil City Lab

Zainteresowania badawcze / Research interests:

ability to produce random series, randomness, complex systems, social influence, dynamic of social interactions, computational social science, individual differences, Nature-Based Solutions, Blue-Green Solutions, green gentrification, right to the healthy city, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science

E-mail: m.biesaga@uw.edu.pl

Scholar Google GitHub

Wykształcenie / Education:

  • since 2024 — Instructor on Undergraduate Migration Studies and New Societies Specialization, Center for Migration Research, University of Warsaw, ”Introduction to Computational Social Science”
  • since 2022 — Instructor on Undergraduate Social Research Specialization, Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, ”Computational Social Science: An Introduction to Data Science”
  • since 2022 — Instructor on Undergraduate Social Research Specialization, Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, ”Programming in Python for Social Scientists”
  • since 2012 – Ph.D. student The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Science University of Warsaw.
  • 2011 – 2014 – Student Department of Management University of Warsaw.
  • 2006 -2011 – Masters Degree Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw.

Prowadzone zajęcia / Teaching experience

  • fall 2019 – Instructor on Undergraduate Course, Warsaw International Studies in Psychology, University of Warsaw , „Elements of Computational Social Science – what every psychologist should know about data science”.
  • spring 2018 – Instructor on Postgraduate Course, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, „Twitter Data Analysis in R”, during course on „Computational Social Psychology” coordinated by prof. Andrzej Nowak.
  • fall 2017 – Instructor on Postgraduate Course, The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw ;”Introduction to Linear Regression in R”.
  • since 2015 – Graduate Teaching Assistant,  Department of Psychology, University of Warsaw, „Dynamical Social Psychology” and „Introduction to Complex Systems Approach
    in Psychology” under prof. Andrzej Nowak supervision.

Publikacje / Publications

Biesaga, M., Domaradzka, A., Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, M., Talaga, S., & Nowak, A. (2023). The effect of the pandemic on european narratives on smart cities and surveillance. Urban Studies, 0(0), 00420980221138317. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221138317

Biesaga, M., Motyka, P., & Nowak, A. (2018). The effects of synchronization with either joyful or angry people on perception of an emotionally neutral person. Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(4), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.v13i4.26821

Biesaga, M., & Nowak, A. (2024). The role of the working memory storage component in a random-like series generation. PLOS ONE, 19(1), e0296731. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296731

Biesaga, M., Talaga, S., & Nowak, A. (2021). The effect of context and individual differences in human-generated randomness. Cognitive Science, 45(12). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13072

Domaradzka, A., Biesaga, M., Domaradzka, E., & Kołodziejczyk, M. (2022). The civil city framework for the implementation of nature-based smart innovations: Right to a healthy city perspective. Sustainability, 14(16), 9887. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14169887

Domaradzka, A., Biesaga, M., Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, M., & Domaradzka, E. (2024). Challenges and Future Directions for Integrating Healthcare Wearable Sensors into Smart Cities and Communities. Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2263–2272. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/106658%20978-0-9981331-7-1

Nowak, A., Biesaga, M., Ziembowicz, K., Baran, T., & Winkielman, P. (2023). Subjective consistency increases trust. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 5657. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32034-4

Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., Rychwalska, A., Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, M., Ziembowicz, K., Biesaga, M., & Kacprzyk-Murawska, M. (2020). Target in control: Social influence as distributed information processing. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30622-9

Nowak, A., Winkowska-Nowak, K., Biesaga, M., & Kacprzyk-Murawska, M. (2017). Sieć nauczycieli rose jako samo-organizująca się sieć społeczna: Perspektywa regulacyjnej teorii wpływu społecznego. Studia Psychologiczne, 55(2), 3–14. https://doi.org/10.2478/v1067-010-0161-9

Szkoły Letnie i Warsztaty/ Summer Schools and Workshops

  • summer 2017 – Participant ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitive Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.
  • winter 2019 – Participant Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, Zakopane, Poland.
  • winter 2020 – Participant Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, Charmey, Switzerland.
  • winter 2021 — Participant, Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, Saline Royal, France

Kierownik w projektach badawczych / PI in the following grants

Situational and cognitive determinants of the ability to produce random series. The project is supported by the Polish National Centre under grant agreement
No.: 2019/35/N/HS6/04318.

Wykonawca w projektach badawczych / Investigator in the following grants

NODES: Narratives Observatory combatting Disinformation in Europe Systemically. Project was supported by the European Commission under grant agreement No.: CNECT/2022/5162608.

GuestXR: A Machine Learning Agent for Social Harmony in eXtended Reality. Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101017884).

HEAlthier Cities through Blue-Green Regenerative Technologies: the HEART Approach. Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 959234). 

HumanE AI Network. Project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 952026).

Integrated NBS-based Urban Planning Methodology for Enhancing the Health and Well- being of Citizens: the euPOLIS Approach. Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program H2020-EU.3.5.2., under grant agreement No 869448.

Dziedzinowe Repozytoria Otwartych Danych Badawczych. Project was supported by Polish Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy from European Funds under grant agreement No.: POPC.02.03.01-00-0036/18.

Study on mechanisms that shape social media and their impact on society. Project was supported by the European Commission under grant agreement
No.: SMART 2017/0090 142-291425.

Regulatory Social Impact Theory. The project was supported by the Polish National Centre under grant agreement No.: 2011/02/A/HS6/00231.

Complex coordination in social interaction. The project was supported by the Polish National Science Centre under grant agreement No.: 2011/03/B/HS6/05084.

Emergence by Design. Coordinated by European Center for Living Technologies in Venice. The project was supported by the European Commission under
the Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No.: 284625.

Qlectives – Socially Intelligent ICT Systems for Quality Community based on quality: socially oriented systems that promote quality. The project was supported by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No.: 231200.

 

 Staże naukowe / Internships

  • summer 2019 – Research Investigator, Department of Physics and Biophysics, University of Michigan, under supervision of prof. Michał Żochowski.
  • spring 2018 – Instructor on Postgraduate Course,  Department of Psychology,  Florida Atlantic University ”Twitter Data Analysis in R”, during course on ”Computational Social Psychology” coordinated by prof. Andrzej Nowak.
  • summer 2017 – Research Investigator,  Department of Physics and Biophysics,  University of Michigan, under supervision of prof. Michał Żochowski.

 Organizowane Konferencje / Organizing Conferences

  • 16-18 IX 2021 — ”Doctoral Festival of Open Science 2021”, Ph.D. Students Union, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    24-25 IX 2020 — ”Doctoral Festival of Open Science 2020”, Ph.D. Students Union, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 
  • 8-10 III 2018 – ”Interdisciplinary perspectives on social influence’’, The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 12-13 IX 2015 ”Social Influence and social dynamics’’, The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 23-24 IX 2015 – „International Synchronisation Conference” , University SWPS Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 12 XII 2013 – ”Complexity of Large Scale Phenomenon’’, The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 12-13 XII 2011 – “Hyper-networks, network dynamics, influence on networks: current tendency in social research’’, The Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 24-25 XI 2011 – ”FET Flagship Pilots Midterm Conference’’, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

Wyróżnienia  / Awards

  • 2017 – ICPSR Grant for ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan.
  • 2019 – Sunbelt-2019-INSNA Travel Award for Sunbelt 2019 XXXIX Conference International Network for Social Network Analysis.
  • 2019 – Travel Award for Winter Workshop on Complex Systems 2020.