Researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Łódź; PhD in economics (management sciences); member of the Scientific Council of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Studies, University of Łódź.

Her work sits at the intersection of political science, urban studies, and sound studies, examining the urban soundscape as a field of negotiation, exclusion, and co-governance – an arena where public values, environmental justice, and the social consequences of urbanisation are contested. She is interested in the relationship between acoustic experience and practices of power, planning, and participation, with particular attention to the tensions between formal regulation and residents' lived experience. She is searching for ways in which the urban soundscape might cease to be treated primarily through the lens of noise management and become an object of design attentive to the identity and aesthetics of space.

She is currently leading the ScienceHub/UNIC project Resonant Cities: Listening Together to Post-Industrial Pasts and Sonic Futures. She previously directed a faculty-funded research project on the public value of the soundscape in post-industrial cities, conducted in Łódź, Manchester, and Tampere. Her methodology combines quantitative tools (standardised soundscape assessment in line with ISO 12913) with qualitative and participatory approaches – field recording, soundwalks, and expert interviews.

She has led open-call soundwalks for both research and public engagement purposes, including the workshop Soundscape of the City as a Challenge and Opportunity for Urban Planners at the AESOP 2023 Congress (Association of European Schools of Planning). She has collaborated with Radio Kapitał, Łaźnia Nowa Theatre, the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Jagiellonian University, and the Dźwiękownia project (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the Workshops of Culture in Lublin), and has consulted on a project devoted to the sounds of the Anthropocene carried out under the IDUB initiative at the Jagiellonian University. She participates in art-research initiatives exploring the urban soundscape. She is co-editor of Glissando – a magazine of contemporary music and sound studies – where she has published on urban sound design, online sound mapping, and participatory listening to cities, and where she edited an issue devoted to the politics of sound.

Her earlier work addressed inter-organisational relations in urban policy, the role of culture in urban development, and the operationalisation of co-governance – themes she pursued as principal investigator of a National Science Centre (NCN) project and as co-author of the first Polish-language monograph to apply marketing theory to the analysis of urban co-governance. Between 2003 and 2011 she carried out expert work in public management and regional development commissioned by, among others, the Ministry of Regional Development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. She is a member of the SOUND+ Network, the Urban Music Scholars Network, and Forum Klanglandschaft | Paesaggio Sonoro.