Maria Rogińska, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of the National Education Commission in Cracow, Poland. Her research examines the relationship between science and religion, focusing on cultural and religious differences in Central and Eastern Europe. She authored After the Collapse: Russian Orthodox Community in the Post-Soviet Period (2017) and co-authored Reformation and Modernity (with P. Stawiński and Michał Warchala, 2017). Her latest book, Natural Scientists on the Supernatural: Worldviews of Physicists and Biologists from Poland and Ukraine (2021), presents a comparative study of Polish and Ukrainian scientists’ worldviews.

Rogińska was a Junior Visiting Fellow in Science and Religion at Campion Hall, Oxford, for the academic years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. In 2020-2021, she received a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust and the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Religion for her project The Imagined Universes: The Role of Cultural Imaginary in the Formation of (Non-) Religious Ideologies of Post-Soviet Natural Scientists. In 2023-2024, she was awarded another grant from the Templeton Religion Trust and Oxford University for The Ontological Narratives of the Oppressive State: The Soviet Legacy in the Religious Imaginary of Ukrainian Natural Scientists. Her ongoing research explores the scientific and religious imaginaries of natural scientists from Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, and investigates the Soviet roots of post-Soviet scientific and religious imaginations.