FUTURE Team

FUTURE – Sustainable Development and the Society of the Future

The mission of the FUTURE team is to conduct research concerning contemporary social, economic and technological changes within a broad context created by challenges of sustainable development. Projects conducted within the FUTURE Group include research on corporate social responsibility, responsible employee behaviour, sustainable consumption and sustainable consumer behaviour, behavioural determinants of economic attitudes of young adults, modelling economic growth, sustainable road transport, digital economy and digitization of organizations.

Team Leader: Prof. dr hab. Aldona Glińska-Neweś (read: Team Leaders)

Members:

1. Prof. dr hab. Magdalena Osińska (emo@umk.pl)

ORCID, Google Scholar, Researchgate

Research interests:

• economics growth;
• economic attitudes of the households;
• financial risk;
• econometric models;
• financial and dynamic econometrics;
• applications of quantitative methods in economics and logistics.

Scientific achievements:

• authorship and co-authorship of 15 monographs and 123 research papers;
• head of four research groups in Poland;
• keynote speaker at symposia and conferences;
• membership in the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics of Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2011r.);
• editor-in-chief Statistical Review (2012-2019);
• reviewer in research journals; supervisor in 14 PhD theses

Hobby: film, literature, nordic walking

2. Dr hab. Michał Polasik, prof. UMK (michal.polasik@umk.pl)

ORCID, Research Gate, Google Scholar

Research interests:

• network effects and the effect of scale on the payment market;
• determinants of the use of cash and payment cards by customers;
• the process of implementing payment innovations, including contactless cards and cryptocurrencies;
• time efficiency of payment methods and video timing;
• integration and regulation processes in the European payment services market;
• payment systems for e-commerce and m-commerce versus Omni-channeling in electronic banking.

Scientific achievements:

• laureate of the Prof. Remigiusz Kaszubski Prize, established by the Management Board of the Polish Bank Association, in the category of scientific activity for research on the Polish payment system;
• director of the NCU Center for Economy and Digital Finance;
• manager of the grant of the National Science Center Sonata Bis no. 2017/26 / E / HS4 / 00858 entitled “The impact of the development of FinTech and legal regulations on innovations in the payment services market of the European Union: strategies of the financial sector and consumer needs”;
• author of 80 publications in the field of digital finance and payment system.

Hobby: longboarding & cruising, skiing

3. Dr hab. Joanna Bruzda, prof. UMK

Google Scholar, Website, Researchgate, ORCID

Research Interests:

• forecasting and demand planning;
• frequency and time-frequency methods;
• nonlinear time series analysis;
• resampling methods in econometrics

Scientific achievements:

• Non-Linear Processes and Non-Linear Long-Term Relationships in Economics (financed by the Polish Foundation for Science in 2003-2004 with a scholarship for young scientists);
• Macroeconomic Applications of Non-Linear Cointegration Analysis (financed by the Polish Ministry of Science in 2005-2007);
• Wavelet Decompositions in Economics: Exploratory Analysis, Business Cycle Synchronisation and Forecasting (financed by the Polish Ministry of Science in 2008-2012);
• Dynamic Quantile Models – Methodology and Applications.

4. Dr Paweł Brzustewicz

Google Scholar, Research Gate, ORCID

Research interests:

• inter-organizational relationships;
• organizational behavior, especially green employee behavior;
• corporate volunteering;
• sustainable consumer behavior;
• cross-cultural management.

Scientific achievements:

• principal investigator in the project ‘Development and validation of a scale for measuring the dark sides of collaboration between business and NGOs for sustainable development’ financed by the National Science Centre;
• co-investigator in two projects financed by the National Science Centre;
• leader of the Polish team implementing the project ‘Cultural Adjustment Project for Improving Relations in Europe’ (CAPIRE), financed by Nationaal Agentschap Erasmus+ Onderwijs & Training, Netherlands.

5. Dr Iwona Escher

Google Scholar, ORCID, Research Gate

Research interests:

• inter-organizational collaboration for sustainable development,
• consumer behavior,
• green consumer behavior,
• corporate volunteering,
• qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection in marketing research (group interviews, in-depth individual interviews; self-completion survey, individual standardized interviews)

6. Dr hab. Jacek Kwiatkowski, prof. UMK

Google scholar, ORCID

Doctoral Candidates:

1. Mgr Mikołaj Borowski-Beszta (mbb@doktorant.umk.pl)

ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate

Research interests:

• payment systems;
• digital finance;
• fintech;
• digital payments;
• mobile banking;
• data exchange interfaces;
• wearable technologies.

Scientific achievements:

• Dean’s award for the best master’s thesis in the 2018/2019 academic year at the Faculty of Economics and Management NCU (distinction);
• Award of the Director of the Institute of Economic and Financial Expertise in Łódź for the best master’s thesis in the 2018/2019 academic year (2nd distinction).

Hobby: music composing, graphic design and video editing

2. Yusheng Fu, MA (yushengfu@doktorant.umk.pl)

ORCID, Research Gate, Google Scholar

Research interests:

• Organizational citizenship behaviour;
• Corporate volunteering;
• Structural Equation Modelling (Amos, Mplus).

Scientific achievements:

• Doktorat w Academia Copernicana (2019-2023)

Hobby: Gym, Traveling

3. Mgr Marta Jakubowska

4. Mgr Anna Kiermas (anna.kiermas@doktorant.umk.pl)

ORCID, Google Scholar

Research interests:

• Digital finance;
• Mobile banking;
• NFC mobile payments;
• Wearables payments.

Scientific achievements:

• Dean’s award for the best master’s thesis in the 2019/2020 academic year at the Faculty of Economics and Management NCU (January 2021);
• Winner of the 8th edition of the FINSIM Academic League Competition (April 2020).

Hobby: playing the guitar, jazz and entertainment music

5. Mgr Alicja Łuka (alicja.luka@doktorant.umk.pl)

ORCID, Research Gate

Research interests:

• social psychology;
• psychology of rationality decision making;
• moral psychology;
• behavioural spillovers;
• interpersonal relationships at work.

Scientific achievements:

• co-authorship of four scientific articles;
• Best Graduate of Faculty of Humanities, NCU 2018;
• award for the best master’s thesis in cognitive science, NCU 2018;
• Polish translation of selected chapters of a popular science book ‘Delusions of Gender. How our mind, society and neurosexism create difference’ by Cordelia Fine.

Hobby: acrobatics, bouldering, languages and linguistics, podcasts and audiobooks

6. Mgr Dawid Megger (dawid.megger@doktorant.umk.pl)

ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate

Research interests:

• philosophy of economics;
• methodology of economics;
• ethics of economics;
• political economy;
• Austrian School of Economics.

Scientific achievements:

• 1st place in the nationwide competition for the best master’s thesis “Master of Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education” in 2020;
• 1st place in the Dean’s Competition of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for the best master’s thesis in 2019;
• laureate of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding scientific achievements for the academic year 2018/2019.

Hobby: individual sport, music

7. Xiaochen Bu, MA

ORCID

8. Nina Rapo, MA

ORCID, Google Scholar

9. Mgr Jakub Szczepkowski

ORCID, Google Scholar

10. Yi Zhang, MA

Research Gate

Research interests:

• cross-cultural Management;
• decision-making logics of immigrant entrepreneurs: Effectuation and Causation;
• entrepreneurial process;
• cultural intelligence;
• transformational leadership;
• data analysis tool: Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)

Scientific achievements:

• Winner of the “Grants4NCUStudents ” competition- organized under the “Excellence Initiative –Research University ” (IDUB) programme (2021/2022);
• Participation and presentation of papers at several international conferences;
• International visiting at the University of Angers, France, financed by Academia Copernicana Interdisciplinary Doctoral School (2021/2022);
• International visiting at the Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland, financed by the University Center of Excellence IMSErt (2022/2023).

Hobbies: Travel, fitness, small antiques collection

11. Mgr Jakub Wojtasik

ORCID

12. Mgr Marta Czarkowska

Google Scholar, ORCID, Research Gate

Visiting scholars:

Prof. Barbara Neuhofer (September 2020)
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
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Former Members:

1. Prof. Yulia Fomina
ORCID, Google Scholar

Research interests:

• Social Entrepreneurship;
• Ecological/ Green Entrepreneurship;
• Social Innovations;
• Green Project Management;
• Sustainability Project Management.

Scientific achievements:

• the author of about 60 publications in Russian and English;
• the coordinator of teaching and research module: “Social Entrepreneurship: the European Union Experience and Practices”, Jean Monnet Programme, Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Russia, 2018 – 2021;
• the team member of the research project “The methodology of evaluation and formation of green (sustainable) project management in the regions of Russia (on the example of Omsk region)”, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Russia, 2018-2019;
• the participant of the research project “Innovative Social Entrepreneurship”, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists, the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and the University of Hohenheim, Germany, 2017;
• the team member of the research project “Study of innovation activity on agricultural markets of BRICS”, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), Tomsk State University, Russia, 2014;
• the participant of the research project “Model of the self-organizing economic system as a mechanism of innovations”, Erasmus Mundus Action 2 MILTIC programme, University of Wroclaw, Poland, 2012/2013
• The postdoc research project “Electronic System of Commodity Market”, Erasmus Mundus Partnership Action 2 in the project IAMONETRU, Natural Resources and Applied Sciences (BOKU), Austria, 2010/2011.

Hobby: hiking, swimming, travelling

2. Atif Khan, PhD
ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate

Research interests:

• Environmental Economics;
• Energy Economics;
• Economic Growth;
• Applied Econometrics;
• Input-Output Modelling;
• Social Accounting Matrix;
• Computable General Equilibrium Modelling.

Scientific achievements:

• He was awarded the prestigious PhD. Scholarship (Cycle XXXI) by the Italian Ministry of Education, enabling him to obtain his PhD in Quantitative Methods for Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Macerata, Italy (November 2015-September 2019).
• His doctoral dissertation was based on quantitative techniques like Applied Econometrics, Multi-Sectoral Input-Output Modelling, Financial Social Accounting Matrix, and Computable General Equilibrium Modelling.
• He has experience in Data Analysis; Statistical Analysis and 3.5 years of teaching and supervising expertise (from November 2011 till June 2015) to Bachelor and Master level students. Dr Atif taught courses in Econometrics, Microeconomics Theory, Macroeconomics Theory, Managerial Economics, International Economics, Financial Institutions, and Markets.
• He also supervised the thesis of two Master’s level students based on Applied Macroeconomics and Energy Economics.
• Dr Atif is the co-author of two ISI/Scopus indexed articles in the leading journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (IF=12.11). His research papers have been cited over 58 times (both h-index and i10-index with four citations).
• Dr Atif has strong computing skills and good command of the software’s and computing languages for empirical analysis (i.e.; Advance Office (2016); STATA-16; SPSS-20; Microfit-5.5; GAMS; Python; EViews-11; GRETL; R Studio; MAPLE; MATLAB (2019a); PC-GIVE; Expertise to handle the Micro Level Data and their coding; have the experience to handle the National Accounts.

Hobby: Reading Historical Books, History, Travelling

3. Anupam Singh, PhD
ORCID, Google Scholar, Research Gate

Research interests:

• Big Data Analytics;
• AI and Machine Learning;
• Marketing Analytics;
• Sustainable Consumption Behaviour, and CSR & Sustainability.

Scientific achievements:

• Anupam is a recipient of the prestigious junior research fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) award by the University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi.
• He an author of research papers published in internationally renowned Journals listed in Web of Science, and Scopus.
• Anupam serves as an Editorial Board Member and Board of Reviewers of reputed management journals.

Hobby: travelling, listening to music, and dancing