Dr hab. Anna Urbaniak is Chair of PAAR-Net and a sociologist specializing in ageing, public policy, and participatory research. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology and a researcher at the Centre for Evaluation and Public Policies Analysis at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her academic background includes research positions at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (University of Galway), the University of Vienna, and the Cracow University of Economics. Anna has extensive experience in interdisciplinary ageing research, with a focus on inclusive, participatory approaches that bridge science, policy, and practice. She is the author and co-author of numerous academic publications and co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research (2023).