Magdalena Perkowska is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Bialystok (Poland), within the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. She also served as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Palermo (Italy) in April 2024, strengthening academic collaboration between the two institutions.

Her academic expertise lies in criminology, criminal law, and the intersection between migration and criminal policy. She is an active member of several renowned academic organizations, including the Polish Society of Criminology (named after Professor Stanisław Batawia), the European Society of Criminology, the Working Group “Criminology of Mobility”, the Centre for Research on Migration Law of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Research Group “Helvetic Initiative.”

Over the years, Dr. Perkowska has held several key positions at the University of Bialystok, such as Erasmus Programme Coordinator, Dean’s Plenipotentiary for International Programmes, and Editorial Secretary of the academic journal Białostockie Studia Prawnicze.

Her scholarly output includes over 90 publications in criminology and penal sciences, and she has presented her work at numerous international conferences. She has contributed to several major research projects, including “SIC – Modular Multi-Task System for the Identification of Foreigners with a Risk Analysis Module for Victims of Human Trafficking” and “Monitoring, Identification and Counteracting Threats to Citizens’ Security.” Currently, she is part of the project “Risk as a Subjective Phenomenon: Integrating Cognitive Science into the Concept of Risk in European Data Protection Law”, funded by the National Science Centre (Poland) under the OPUS-24 (LAP) programme in cooperation with Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Dr. Perkowska has enhanced her academic and research experience through international fellowships at the University of Bern (Switzerland, 2009) and the University of Palermo (Italy, 2024), as well as several teaching and training visits under the Erasmus programme. She was also a recipient of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists (2014–2017).

Her research provides valuable insights into migration-related criminality, the criminalisation of migration, and European migration policy, contributing to reports commissioned by the European Commission. Among them are “Facilitators Package Implementation Study,” “Targeted Study on the Seasonal Workers Directive,” and “SR 21 – Fundamental Rights Compliance at the EU’s External Borders.