Monika Murzyn-Kupisz holds a doctorate and a post-doctoral habilitation in economic sciences from Krakow University of Economics and an MA in European Leisure Studies (a joint diploma of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Tilburg University, Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao and Loughborough University). She worked for the Krakow University of Economics (1999-2018) and International Cultural Centre in Kraków (1999-2009). Since 2018 she is a professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Member of Association for Cultural Economics International, Regional Studies Association, ICOMOS and Polish Geographic Society. She specialises in multidisciplinary research within the broad field of cultural economics, socio-economic geography and urban studies, with a special focus on heritage, museums, cultural and creative activities, artists as well as urban regeneration processes, in particular their analysis in the context of sustainable development challenges and the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Author, co-author and editor of numerous publications in English and Polish, including monographs The impact of artists on contemporary urban development in Europe (2017), Artists in the urban space of Krakow and Katowice (in Polish, 2017), Museum institutions from the perspective of cultural economics (in Polish, 2016), Cultural heritage and local development (in Polish, 2012) and Kazimierz. The Central European experience of urban regeneration (in English and Polish, 2006). As an expert she has been cooperating with numerous international and national bodies such as OECD, UNESCO, National Science Centre, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, National Institute for Museums, International Cultural Centre. In 2019-2024 principal investigator and coordinator of the National Science Centre funded research project on Fashion market in the context of sustainable development, grant no. UMO-2018/31/B/HS4/02961.