Nina Bażela is a graduate in Computer Science with Eng. degree from AGH University of Science and Technology and in Cognitive Science with MSc. (summa cum laude) from Jagiellonian University.
Nina is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University (Society of the Future program; supervisor: Mateusz Hohol, co-supervisor: Michał Obidziński), preparing her thesis in psychology under the National Science Centre’s OPUS grant “The gist of math: Applying Fuzzy-Trace Theory as an integrative framework to investigate different dimensions of numerical memory and their associations with mathematical skills in the general population and among individuals with dyscalculia.” Nina is a co-author of math cognition-related chapters and papers, the most recent of which was published in Cognition (2025).
As a former member of the AGH Space Systems management board, she was responsible for coordinating the preparation of applications and the execution of several student research grants related to space industry technology development, space biology, and space geology. She has also conducted her own research on assessing the level of trust in a planetary rover within a human-robot team (presented at the Robophilosophy Conference in 2022) and an experiment on sleep quality among participants of a simulated space mission (presented at the AIAA SciTech Forum in 2023). In the spatial domain, Nina is the founder of CleverHive Space, developing software to manage robotic missions on the Moon.
In addition to mathematical cognition and mathematics education—with a special focus on mathematics learning difficulties—Nina is interested in human-computer interaction and dream and sleep research. She is a math tutor and an aspiring science communicator, always ready to engage in debates about the education system.
