Monika Florczak-Wątor is a professor at the Department of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University, the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and the Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD Programme "Society of the Future" at the Doctoral School in Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University. She received the title of Full Professor (2021), the Habilitation degree in Law (2015), PhD in Law (2004), MA in Political Sciences, specialisation: International Relations (2002) and MA in Law (2001). She also passed the judge exam (2004) and currently works as an attorney at law and mediator. At the Jagiellonian University, she heads the research group "Rule of Law and the Future of European Democracy" as part of the Future Democracy Lab. She is a co-founder of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) and a member of its Scientific Council, as well as a co-founder of the Democracy in Practice Association. She is also a member of various expert and scientific bodies, including the European Group of Public Law, the Scientific Council of the European Law and Governance School in Athens, the Commission of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Krakow Branch), the Legal Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Research Team for the State System and the Judiciary within the Centre for Research, Studies and Legislation of the National Council of Attorneys at Law, the Team of Legal Experts of the Stefan Batory Foundation and the Programme Council of the Wiktor Osiatyński Archive. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Constitutional Review” journal. She has been the Principal Investigator of several national and international research projects, including those funded by the National Science Centre, the Foundation for Polish Science and the National Academic Exchange Agency. She has also participated in international research projects coordinated by foreign partners, including one funded by the Visegrad Fund. She is the author of more than 160 scientific publications, 20 of which have been published abroad. Her research interests include the protection of human rights, the rule of law, democracy, constitutional justice, constitutional axiology and constitutional interpretation, and comparative constitutional law.