I am a Romanian-born and established in Poland sociologist of failure, founder and leader of Failure Lab at University of Warsaw. My current research focuses on failure irrationality, obsession, taste, sound and insentience in policymaking.
Since 2026, I am engaged with critical failure editors in developing a series on Elements in Failure Studies at Cambridge University Press [website in the making, but please send your proposal electronically at a.mica[@]uw.edu.pl].
Besides organizing failure convenings, I understand to contribute to failure literacy, and awareness of interaction between failure and other processes through making very short movies about failure conceptual work in progress.
I conducted seminars and informal convenings on failure in France, Germany, the UK, the US, Indonesia, and Kenya. Having also engaged in the review of failure manuscripts with Cambridge University Press, Illinois Press, and other prestigious peer-reviewed journals.