Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Sękowski
Head of the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at KUL
Head of the Chair of Psychology of Individual Differences. He is author of 230 publications, among others the books Achievement of Gifted Students, Personality and Artistic Achievement of Music School Students, Personality-based Determinants of Attitudes towards the Disabled, and Psychology of Abilities: Current Research Trends. He has published in prestigious international scientific journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Science, High Ability Studies, Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, and Zeitschrift fűr Heilpädagogik. Currently, he holds the positions of Vice-chair of the Polish Psychological Society, Editor-in-chief of Przegląd Psychologiczny (Psychological Review), and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at KUL. As a Fulbright and Humboldt Fellow and a Kościuszko Fund Fellow, Professor Sękowski has been on placement in numerous foreign scientific institutions, among others in the USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. During the scholarship period, he conducted research at Yale University’s PACE Center (Investigating the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise) run by Prof. R.J. Sternberg and at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where he co-operated with Prof. Kurt Heller. His scientific interests primarily concern giftedness and social attitudes towards disabled persons. For the last ten years, he has run training courses and workshops in psychology for gifted children and adults in Poland, Germany, and the USA.
