Dr. Łukasz Musiaka

Łukasz Musiaka studied Geography at the University of Łódź, where he also completed a postgraduate programme in Geographic Information Science (GIS) and received his PhD in 2012. Since then, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political and Historical Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Łódź.
In 2019–2020, he held a research internship at the Institute of History and International Relations in Olsztyn. His academic focus combines historical and urban geography, settlement morphology, heritage studies and cultural tourism. Alongside teaching and research, he has also been active in museum work and cultural tourism, gaining practical experience in heritage interpretation and promotion.
Łukasz Musiaka has been the principal investigator of several research projects, including Models of morphological transformations of large cities of the former Recovered Territories after 1945 in the context of challenges of contemporary spatial policy (IDUB Grant, 2022–2024), Morphological changes in the towns of former East Prussia after World War II(NCN MINIATURA, 2019–2022), and a series of Teutonic heritage studies (MNiSW, 2013–2016). He has also participated in several interdisciplinary scientific and applied projects.

Since 2025, Łukasz Musiaka has been working as a scholarship holder of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) at the GWZO.

• Urban morphogenesis and morphology from historical-geographical perspective
• Cultural heritage of historical settlements
• Spatial-functional transformations of the cities after WWII (post-war studies)
• Resilience, revitalisation and revalorisation of urban space
• Architectura militaris
• Qualitative and quantitative research (geography of perception, urban and rural change, tourism function)
• GIS methods in spatial studies

• Member of the International Planning History Society (since 2025)
• Member of the Polish Studies Association (PSA, since 2024)
• Founding Member and Council Member of the Polish Network on Urban Morphology ISUF POLAND (since 2019)
• Member of the Urban Morphology Section of the Commission for Urbanism and Architecture of the Cracow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2019)
• Member of the Polish Geographical Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Geograficzne, PTG, since 2012), founding member of its Political and Historical Geography Commission (2014), president (2017-2021) and vice chairman (since 2021) of the Łódź Branch of PTG
• Member of the Council of the Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism at the University of Łódź (since 2011)
• Member of the NGO’s Council of CIRR Regio (REGIO Regional Development Initiatives Centre, 2010-2024)
• Member of the Council of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź (since 2008)

• 2024 Medal of the Commission of National Education
• 2022 - 2024 several scientific and organisational awards of JM Rector of the University of Łódź
• 2018 – 2019 three times 1st award in urban-architectural competitions in świętokrzyskie voivodeship
• 2014 Scientific Award of the Rector of the University of Łódź for the book: »Tourist function of medieval castles and its impact on the towns of Pomerania, Warmia and Mazury«
• 2012-2020 several awards from the Dean of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź, for scientific and teaching achievements

• Member of the Advisory Board of the monographical series »Interdisciplinary Studies on Spatial Dynamics and Marginalization in Central and Eastern Europe« (Rowman & Littlefield, since 2024)
• Advisory Board Member of the »Journal of Spatial Research« Çukurova Üniversitesi, Turkey (since 2023)
• Secretary of the scientific journal Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica (2013-2021)

As an academic teacher at the University of Łódź, Łukasz Musiaka has been conducting lectures and field classes since 2012, having gained earlier teaching experience during his PhD studies. In addition, he has taught at the private university WSTiH in Łódź (tourism) and has delivered guest lectures at universities in Estonia, Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, Turkey, Israel, Slovenia and Portugal.