Lucas N. Vieira is Professor of Translation and Technology at the University of Bristol. The focus of his work is on machine translation and its uses in society. Vieira received a New Investigator Award from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and is a former Arts and Humanities Research Council fellow. He’s the author of Translate: Multilingual Access to Critical Services in the AI, published in 2026 by Cambridge University Press.
Łucja Biel is a passionate linguist, translation scholar, terminologist and open science enthusiast. At the University of Warsaw, Łucja trains future translators and leads the EUMultiLingua research group specializing in EU/legal translation and terminology. She has published extensively on legal translation and terminology, translator training, and corpus linguistics. She is the editor-in-chief of one of the leading translation journals — the Journal of Specialised Translation. She is also a sworn translator and AI trainer.
Agnieszka Bartczak holds degrees in Law and Latin American Studies from the University of Warsaw. Since 2007, she has worked as a translator and terminologist at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation. Since 2016, as the main terminologist for Polish, she has been responsible for developing Polish terminology for Commission documents and for terminological cooperation with other EU institutions and the Polish administration. She is a co-author of Vademecum tłumacza.
Anna Konieczna-Purchała is a lawyer, linguist, and sociologist who loves working at the intersection of these three fields. Co-founder of Textem, a school for translators, where she designs courses to help translators find greater satisfaction in their work. Author of Przekład prawniczy. Praktyczne ćwiczenia and Practical English for Lawyers: A Handbook, both published by C.H. Beck. A fan with a keen interest in fan studies, and a beginner cartoonist with no skill but an abundance of enthusiasm.
Arkadiusz Badziński is a Polish scholar, sworn English translator, interpreter, lexicographer and an assistant professor at the University of Silesia. He holds a Ph.D. in health sciences from the Medical University of Silesia. He specializes in medical, pharmaceutical, legal and economic translation and interpreting, with expertise in medical terminology and collocations. He is an author of specialist dictionaries, monographs and research papers. He has also translated medical books and more than 2500 medical papers. His work combines translation studies, medical communication and the teaching of specialist English.
Jan Chamski is an interpreter, formerly also translator, specialising in technical topics since 1992. Anxious about being replaced by machines since 1995. Member of Bałtyckie Stowarzyszenie Tłumaczy (Baltic Society of Translators and Interpreters).
Wojciech Charchalis is a scholar and literary translator specialising in Portuguese- and Spanish-language literature; he has translated more than 90 books by authors such as José Saramago, Fernando Pessoa, Mario Vargas Llosa, António Lobo Antunes, Javier Marías, Clarice Lispector and Antonio Muñoz Molina. His work has earned him the Wisława Szymborska Award for his translation of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry and an award from the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw for his translation of Juan Goytisolo’s Makbara. His translations also include a new Polish rendering of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. He is a professor in the Department of Portuguese Studies at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Wojciech Kubiński is a translation scholar, linguist, translator and interpreter. He was active in the democratic opposition during the Polish People’s Republic and was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 1990–91, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently affiliated with the Academy of Applied Sciences in Elbląg.
He was one of the initiators and founders of Translatoryka at the University of Gdańsk, together with Olga Kubińska and Łucja Biel. His academic interests include translation studies, cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis. Alongside his academic work, he has been active as a translator and interpreter. Together with Olga Kubińska, he has translated works by authors including John McGahern, Philip Roth, George Steiner, Frank Kermode, Anthony Burgess and Seamus Heaney.
Zofia Szachnowska-Olesiejuk is a graduate of English Studies at the University of Gdańsk, literary translator, amateur singer and songwriter. For over fifteen years she has been cooperating with leading Polish publishing houses (Czarne, Filtry, Marginesy, Otwarte, Znak etc.) as well as the Music Theatre in Gdynia, translating fiction, non-fiction, poetry and musical librettos of Broadway and West End productions. Since 2021 she has been Chair of the Northern Division of Polish Literary Translators Association. She lives in Gdynia with her husband Adam (the other half of their translating team and co-star in their acoustic blues duo Moja Droga Wendy) and her daughter Lidia.