Paulina Lenik is a post-doctoral fellow at the Taube Centre Jagiellonian University. She graduated from University College London in 2023 with a PhD in Economics. She holds a degree in diplomacy from Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford (2018). Her current research interests include: illiberalism, democracy, economic determinants of populism, quantitative methods, survey data, attitudinal trends, electoral behaviour, Central and Eastern Europe.