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Rafał Urbaniak is an Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk and a Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Fellow at Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH). His academic roles include running a National Science Centre project on legal probabilism and contributing to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Education: PhD in Philosophy from the University of Calgary, Canada. Previous fellowships include British Academy Visiting Fellow (2009), Trinity College Dublin Visiting Fellow (2012), and Postdoctoral Fellow at Research Foundation Flanders.
Research interests focus on formal methods (especially probabilistic) applied to legal and social problems, including DNA evidence evaluation, algorithmic fairness, and formal epistemology. Recent work critiques DNA evidence reliability, emphasizing error rates in forensic analysis.
Awards include the Bednarowski Trust Fellowship (2022) and Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship (2021). His publications include edited volumes like *Applications of Formal Philosophy* (2017) and a monograph on Leśniewski’s logic systems (2013).
Key projects involve probabilistic modeling of legal evidence, with publications analyzing false positives in DNA identification and contextual factors affecting forensic conclusions.
