Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

LECTURERS

Meta-, Inter- & Trans‑Science

T4EU Autumn School

for Master’s and Doctoral Students

23.11.2026 – 27.11.2026

Patrícia Oliveira-Silva is a PhD in Clinical Psychology, Professor of Neurosciences and Director of the Human Neurobehavioral Laboratory (HNL), a laboratory committed to teaching and carrying out research in the field of neurosciences that includes post-doctoral researchers and PhD, MA and undergraduate students. The main focus of her research is to explore the interaction between psychological and neurophysiological processes. More specifically she is interested in applying Neuroscience methods, predominantly psychophysiological, peripheral measures, to a spectrum of social behaviours and clinical conditions (including empathic responding, emotion regulation, pro-environmental behaviour and dementias). She has also been committed to interdisciplinary research, initiating two lines of research in collaboration with the Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry, one related to a multidisciplinary perspective of consumer behaviour and the other focused on the development and validation of psychophysiological protocols for the evaluation of new commercial products.

Dr. Gytis Dovydaitis is a researcher, curator, and lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), where he serves as Head of the Department of Contemporary Arts and is affiliated with the Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute. His work combines media art theory, philosophy of technology, internet culture studies, ecological thought, and hybrid reality practices.

He earned his PhD from VMU with a dissertation entitled From Cyberspace to Internet Art: Investigating Spatiality, in which he developed the “Pentamorphic Cyberspace Model”, an interdisciplinary framework for analysing digital space and internet art.

Dr. Dovydaitis is also known as a curator and founder of international artistic and research initiatives, including the Stream Art Network, which promotes hybrid-reality and transdisciplinary collaborations. His research and teaching focus on digital culture, posthumanism, ecology, media arts, and sustainable futures.

Dr. Witold Marzęda is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Silesia in Katowice. He graduated from the university’s interdisciplinary humanities programme, earning degrees in both philosophy and Polish philology, and received his PhD in philosophy in 2012 with a dissertation on phenomenology and theories of meaning in the work of Edmund Husserl.

His research focuses on cognitive science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, phenomenology, and cognitive semantics. He investigates how language shapes cognition, the relationship between speech and consciousness, and contemporary debates in mind and brain studies.

Dr. Marzęda is the author of numerous scholarly publications in philosophy, cognitive science, and language studies. His recent work has explored consciousness, cognitive semantics, experimental philosophy, and the philosophical foundations of cognitive science.

Maciej Stanek, Ph.D. — Deputy Head of Study Programmes at the Faculty of Humanities, responsible for Cognitive Science; long‑time NCN expert and co‑creator of metascientific approaches to game research.

Mateusz Hadamczyk, M.A. — Head of the laboratory section of the student research group Do góry mózgami; young researcher working on systems thinking in the context of game studies and cognitive modeling.

Together, they offer a unique combination of methodological rigor, laboratory practice, and metascientific perspective, enabling participants to design research that is both innovative and structurally robust.

Działanie współfinansowane w ramach projektu International from the beginning – wsparcie umiędzynarodowienia finansowanego przez Narodową Agencję Wymiany Akademickiej w ramach Programu STER.

Więcej: https://us.edu.pl/szkola-doktorska/ster/