Łukasz Bukowiecki holds an MA and a PhD in cultural studies. He is a postdoctoral researcher within the Horizon2020 project ECHOES – European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities, participating in the work package on City Museums and Multiple Colonial Pasts. His academic interests focus on social construction of heritage, cultural history of museums and urban memory in the Baltic Sea Region. 

He has contributed articles to main Polish academic journals in the humanities, including Teksty Drugie, Przegląd Humanistyczny and Kultura Współczesna. In 2015 he published a book on cultural history and social function of open-air museums in Sweden and Poland Czas przeszły zatrzymany [The past arrested]. In 2019 at the Institute of Polish Culture of the University of Warsaw he defended his PhD dissertation about planned but never opened museums in the Warsaw’s sites of negative heritage in the 20th century. The dissertation was awarded a special mention in the Mayor of Warsaw Dissertation Prize in 2020, and will be published as a book in 2021.

He cooperated with a Polish-Swedish project „The Europeanization of realms of memory and the invention of a common European heritage” funded by the National Science Centre of Poland (2014–2018). He was a member of the research team which has received a grant from the National Program for the Development of Humanities for a project „Topo-Graphies: city, map, literature” (2014–2017).