Biographies
Gabriela Flis graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, where she has also undertaken the MA Program in translation and interpreting. Being a member of the AVT Lab, her main scientific interests concern audiovisual translation and media accessibility. Professionally, she translates from English and French to Polish as well as Polish to English, and is interested in speech recognition development.
Email: gk.flis@student.uw.edu.pl
Adam Sikorski holds a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warsaw, where he currently is a PhD candidate and a member of the AVT Lab. For his doctoral dissertation, he is examining the acoustic properties of the language of dubbing. He also works as a Spanish and English to Polish subtitler and conference interpreter.
E-mail: adam.sikorski@student.uw.edu.pl
Agnieszka Szarkowska is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. She is the head of AVT Lab, one of the first research groups on audiovisual translation. Agnieszka is a researcher, academic teacher, ex-translator, and translator trainer. Her research projects include eye tracking studies on subtitling, audio description, multilingualism in subtitling for the deaf and the hard of hearing, and respeaking.
E-mail: a.szarkowska@uw.edu.pl