Michalina Marcia works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Poznań Human Rights Centre of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (INP PAN) in the project led by Prof. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias “Militant Democracy: A Friend or Foe of Democracy in Europe? Rethinking a Century-Old Concept.” She holds a PhD in law, which she earned at the University of Wroclaw by defending her thesis on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in criminal proceedings in the context of defence rights. Her research interests include the impact of emerging technologies on human rights, AI, limits of state surveillance, the right to information, and defence rights.

She has participated in several national and international research projects. In 2024, she contributed to the project ‘2023-IT-NET4FEU – New European Tools for the Financial Interests of the EU’, funded by the European Commission and led by Serena Quattrocolo. She has been a stipend holder on the National Science Centre (NCN)-funded project ‘The Right Not to Incriminate Oneself in the Digital Era: Can New Challenges Help Us Find Common Foundations?’ (no. 2023/51/B/HS5/00283), led by Wojciech Jasiński. Currently, she also leads her own NCN PRELUDIUM project, ‘AI and Defence Rights – Friends or Foes?’ (project no. 2024/53/N/HS5/01933), investigating how AI can be applied in criminal proceedings, whether such applications align with defence rights, and how they can be implemented to ensure proportionality.

Since 2021, she has been a part of the Digital Justice Center at the University of Wrocław. She is also a member of the Virtual Criminal Justice Network, European Society of Criminology, and has participated in the Governmental Working Group on AI (GRAI). She has presented at numerous national and international conferences, including the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), and taken part in events such as legal hackathons, exploring the practical aspects of implementing new technologies in the legal sphere. In 2024, she completed her Bar Training.