Joanna is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She works mainly in the area of philosophy of science, in combination with ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Joanna is particularly interested in how certain concepts, such as race and ethnicity, are understood and used in science. From 2021 to 2024 she was the Principal Investigator in a project considering applications and interpretations of ethnoracial categories in biomedical research and health care (funded by the Polish National Science Centre). Since 2024 Joanna is also a member of a research group focusing on the contemporary use and handling of human remains (funded by the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) programme of the Network of European Institutes of Advanced Studies (NetIAS)). Joanna is currently working on the issue of conceptualizing whiteness in research on health inequities, particularly in relation to racialization of Eastern Europeans and among Central and Eastern European communities.

Joanna will join THE NEW INSTITUTE as Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellow in the winter and spring of 2024/2025.