Jakub Krzeski, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University and a collaborating researcher with the Scholarly Communication Research Group (SCRG). His research intersects the philosophy of science, critical and Marxist theory, and social studies of science. He is particularly interested in the capitalist structuralization of science, with a focus on the capitalist production of academic subjectivity.
Since joining the SCRG in 2019, he defended his doctoral thesis, A philosophical account of metrological conflict in the field of science evaluation, in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Kulczycki and Prof. Szadkowski. Currently, he leads the SCRG team in the international project Predatory publishing practices: Paper tigers or actual threats from evaluation systems? – a collaborative effort with the DZHW, Humboldt University, and the University of Porto. He is also involved in SCRG’s ongoing projects regarding the “shock therapy” and capitalist transition of the 1990s in Polish science, with a focus on “research excellence” as a hegemonic discourse responsible for reengineering the Polish science system.
Selected publications:
Szadkowski, K., & Krzeski, J. (2025). A Marxist Critique of the Ruined University. Springer.
Krzeski, J. (2023). Power and agency within the evaluative state: A strategic–relational approach to quantification of higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(12), 1400-1413.
Krzeski, J. (2023). In-against-Beyond Metrics-Driven University: A Marxist Critique of the Capitalist Imposition of Measure on Academic Labor. In The Palgrave International Handbook of Marxism and Education (pp. 163-182). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Krzeski, J., Szadkowski, K., & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Creating evaluative homogeneity: Experience of constructing a national journal ranking. Research Evaluation, 31(3), 410-422.