Wojciech Firek is a PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences of the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Law, Associate at the Constitutional Law Department JU and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Constitutional Studies JU. He is also Attorney at Law Trainee.

Wojciech Firek is researcher in the scientific project entitled "Citizen participation as a tool for strengthening democracy" funded by the Polish National Centre for Science (P.L. prof. Monika Florczak-Wątor). He participates in international research project "Participatory Constitutionalism in the European Union" funded by the European Union. He is a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2), and the Polish Association of Constitutional Law (PTPK). He is the founder and president of the Polish Democracy in Practice Association, and its representative at the The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (OIDP). He was a researcher fellow at Fordham School of Law in New York (spring semester 2026) and visiting researcher at Complutense University of Madrid (2024) and King’s College London (2025). He was attended Participedia Summer Schools at University of the Western Cape in South Africa (2024) and Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (2025). He presented papers at national and international scientific conferences. He teaches Polish constitutional law. Wojciech Firek is the author of several scientific publications on law and citizen participation. His research interests include participatory democracy, deliberative innovations, constitutional states, the rule of law and civil society.