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Katarzyna Wisiecka, PhD
Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
Katarzyna Wisiecka is a psychologist with a PhD specializing in psychophysiological synchrony and shared attention. She completed her doctorate at SWPS University, where she also worked at the Eye Tracking Research Center. After her studies, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo in Canada, co-developing a cognitive training program for pilots focused on visual attention.
She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Warsaw, where she conducts research on the role of embodiment in coping with somatic illness. She has participated in numerous Polish and international research grants, particularly in the fields of health psychology, social neuroscience, and relational processes. Alongside her academic work, she also works with children and adolescents, integrating somatic approaches with psychological knowledge.
Her work examines the dynamics of interpersonal coordination—both physiological and behavioral. She studies the psychophysiology of relationships and nonverbal communication, including motor, visual, and physiological synchrony between individuals, and its importance for bonding and effective cooperation.
She is also interested in the role of embodiment in mental and physical health, particularly in how bodily awareness, movement, breath, and somatic metaphors support a coherent sense of self and adaptation to health challenges. Her research focuses especially on dissociative phenomena, including derealization and depersonalization, and on how body-based interventions can support the recovery of presence, grounding, and connection with one’s sense of self. She integrates perspectives from social neuroscience, health psychology, and embodiment research with somatic practice, exploring how working through the body can support wellbeing, therapeutic processes, and the integration of personal experience.
