Karolina Krosnicka educated as an urban planner and an architect, is a researcher and lecturer employed both at the Department of Transport and Logistics at the Faculty of Navigation at Gdynia Maritime University, and the Faculty of Architecture at Gdansk University of Technology (Poland). Her PhD thesis, defended at the Faculty of Architecture of Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), were describing the evolution of spatial relation between the port and city of Gdansk.

Karolina is currently the President of Gdansk branch of the Society of Polish Town Planners, and a member of Municipal Commission on Urban Planning and Architecture of Gdynia, as well as Pomeranian Voivodeship’s Commission on Urban Planning and Architecture.

She is interested in theory of urban dynamics and problems of spatial planning, especially in relation to port terminals, ports, port cities, and waterfronts.