Dr Katarzyna Szarszewska
She holds degrees in German philology and law from the Jagiellonian University. From 2020 to 2024, she worked on the project Pisarki z Kolekcji Varnhagena — listy, dzieła, relacje (DFG/NCN 2018/31/G/HS2/01585), and from 2023 to 2026 she has been involved in the flagship project DiHeLib. In 2025, she was awarded her doctoral degree on the basis of the dissertation Helmina von Chézy als Briefnetzwerkerin und Publizistin unter den Autorinnen ihrer Zeit — am Beispiel ausgewählter Handschriften aus der Sammlung Varnhagen.
Since April 2025, she has been the principal investigator of the research project Critical Edition of Selected Letters by Alexander von Humboldt from the Autograph Collection (Sammlung Autographa) Housed in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow (NCN 2024/53/N/HS2/00724).