Diana Pustuła

Since July 1, 2018, head of the Office for International Research and Liaison at the University of Warsaw, Deputy Secretary General of the 4EU+ Alliance (since 2023), coordinator of two horizontal activities within the Excellence Initiative – Research University, member of the "HR Excellence in Research Award" team, former project leader: "Transforming ReseArch & INnovation agendas and support in 4EU+" in the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, previously deputy head of the UW Research Services Office (since 2007);

A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, she also earned an international Legum Magister (LL.M.) degree as part of her postgraduate, specialized law studies at the Dresden University of Technology. She also completed postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (Diploma, EU Law), at the University of Warsaw (Intellectual Property Law and Accounting and Auditing); and at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer (DAAD scholarship) - knowledge management (Wissenschaftsmanagement). As a recipient of the H.H. Humphrey Scholarship awarded by the Polish-American Fulbright Commission, she completed a one-year program in Educational Administration, Leadership, Planning, and Policy at Pennsylvania State University and a month-long internship at the University of Washington, Office of Sponsored Programs; A graduate of the UW Leadership Academy.
 

She worked as a translator of EU legal acts from English and German into Polish at the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in Brussels; She headed the Regional Contact Point “Centre” of EU Research Programmes (2014-2020), chaired the EU Research Liaison Officers Group of the UNICA network of Capital Universities (2017-2021), leader of the “LEGAL” Working Group within Network 1302 of the COST Action – BESTPRAC (Building Network of Administrative Excellence, 2014-2017), an expert of the EC group for simplification of rules in the EU Framework Programmes, a member of expert groups of the EUA, a member of the Expert Practitioners’ Group for FP Simplification (GEPs) – IGLO/KoWi (from 2022), a member of the working group for the Horizon Europe programme at the Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology (from 2023).