[1] She is also a Senior Fellow of the German liberal-conservative thinktank Zentrum Liberale Moderne (LibMod), an assistant professor at Warsaw University's Institute of Sociology and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

She graduated in 2009 with a thesis "Declarations of Forgiveness and Repentance in Politics: Examples from the history of Poland, Germany and Ukraine, 1945-2006.

[3] Her academic interests include political philosophy of the twentieth century, especially of Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Vladimir Jankélévitch and Karl Jaspers; sociology and ethics of memory, with a focus on transitional justice, historical guilt, reconciliation and forgiveness in politics – these are the core themes of the book she published in 2011, titled “Wina narodów.

In the book, she argued that the seventeenth century philosophy, especially of Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza and René Descartes, made a decisive contribution to the creation of the contemporary concept of emotions.

From 2016 to 2018, together with Jarosław Kuisz, she was co-directing the Polish Programme at St. Antony’s College at Oxford University, entitled “Knowledge Bridges: Poland - Britain - Europe”.

She was awarded the 2008 Polish Grand Press prize[6] for her interview with Jürgen Habermas “Europe in death paralysis”, published in “Europa” earlier that year.

Her work has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita, Przegląd Polityczny, Tygodnik Powszechny, Znak and other periodicals.

[8] In 2019 and 2020, together with Tomasz Terlikowski and Mariusz Cieślik she worked in a cultural programme for TVP Kultura “Tego się nie wytnie” (This will not be cut).

In order not to fall into dangerous determinism or counterproductive defensiveness, we have to remember that the greatest successes of liberal democracies emerged from hope" - Kuisz and Wigura wrote.

[12] Karolina Wigura is a widely invited public speaker, concentrating mostly on emotions in politics, national populism, liberal democracy, Poland and Polish-German relations.