Dr. Antonina Luszczykiewicz-Mendis is a former Fulbright senior scholar at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Until February 2023, she served as the founding director of the “Taiwan Lab” research center at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. A former Taiwan Fellow of the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she is the recipient of the 2025 research grant of the Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei. She currently serves as an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, a research fellow of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) in Bratislava, Slovakia, and as an associate fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.