Prof. Mirosława Czerny of the Department of Geography and Regional Studies, director of the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw (UW), has received an honorary doctorate from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in Toluca. 

The UW researcher received the distinction for her contribution to the development of urban and regional research in Latin America and her great commitment to scientific cooperation between the universities, which has resulted in, among other things, a study of development in the Nordeste del Estado de México or research on the metropolitan zone of Toluca City and the region inhabited by the indigenous Mazahua people.

Prof. Miroslawa Czerny is a geographer, currently working in the Department of Urban Geography and Spatial Planning. 

The researcher’s collaboration with the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in Toluca (The Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, UAEM) began in 1977, when she joined a group of geographers from the University of Warsaw organising the second Polish-Mexican symposium. Since then, Prof Czerny has participated in a number of scientific projects in Mexico.