PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Edyta Masierek

Lodz resident

Education:

MA in Economics - 2001, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Łódź, specialisation: Investment and real estate;

PhD in economic sciences in the field of management sciences - 2011, Faculty of Management, University of Łódź; title of dissertation: Theory and practice of managing urban revitalisation processes

Since October 2015, assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Management and Spatial Policy, WNG of the University of Łódź;

Many years of experience working in local government (City Hall of Łódź; Municipal Investment Board in Łódź); cooperation with municipalities preparing and implementing revitalisation processes. In her work she constantly tries to combine theory, science, didactics with activity for the benefit of practice.

Author of numerous publications and speeches at national and international conferences, largely on urban revitalisation,

International cooperation:

Representation of the Land of Berlin in Brussels (05.2004)- professional traineeship;

Potsdam City Council, Department of Education, Culture and Sports, Project for the revitalisation of the post-industrial area "Schiffbauergasse" (04.2004- 05.2004)- professional traineeship;

Berlin Senate Department for City Development: Planning, Building, Housing, Environment and Transport; Department "Social City", Department for the Management of EU Programmes and Special Projects, including those financed by the URBAN initiative; Department for Areas with Special Needs (02.2004-04.2004)- professional traineeship;

Berlin Senate Department for City Development: Planning, Building, Housing, Environment and Communication in the Department for International Cooperation and Protocol (10.2003- 01.2004)- professional traineeship.

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany (May 2017) - teaching trip within the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme.

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany (April 2022) - teaching and research trip within the Erasmus+ programme.

Technische Universität Wien, TUW, Austria (May 2022) - teaching and research fellowship within the Erasmus+ Programme

Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (June 2022) - research trip.

Universität Regensburg, Germany (October 2022), study visit within the framework of "Cooperations with Univesities in Central and Eastern Europe" DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst).

Urban regeneration, new functions of brownfield sites, neighbourhood spaces, investment

Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation for Young Executives in Public Administration from Central and Eastern Europe, 2003/2004;

Award of the Director of the Statistical Office for work related to the census, 2002;

First prize in the "Municipal Infrastructure" category in the Good Practice PPP competition co-organised by the Ministry of Economy for the Family House Revitalisation Programme, 2008;

Awards of the Mayor of Łódź: 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010.

Supervisor of the best Master's thesis in the field of Spatial Management. Thesis title: Development of the Zamkowa Wola housing estate in Rawa Mazowiecka, student Paulina Świstak (2018);

Second place in the poll for the best lecturer at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences according to graduates of the spatial management major in 2021.

Rector's award for a series of publications (2021).