BIO

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Food Science at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, where he also earned a doctorate in food and nutrition technology. He also completed postgraduate studies in EU funds management at UWM in Olsztyn and postgraduate studies in security and crisis management at the Military College at the Naval Academy in Gdynia.

For years, Marcin Kulasek has combined activities for the development of science and higher education with work in administration and local government activities. Among other things, he worked as an assistant to the governor of Warmia and Mazury and at the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture. In 2014, he won a seat as an alderman of the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship Assembly, and since 2016 he has served as secretary general of what is now the New Left and previously the Democratic Left Alliance.

In the 2019 parliamentary elections, he won a seat in the Polish Parliament. In the ninth term of the Sejm, he sat on the Committee on Education, Science and Youth, was chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Science and Higher Education and a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He also served as vice-chairman of the National Defense Commission, worked in the subcommittee that prepared the bill on Homeland Defense, and dealt with modernization of the armed forces.

In the elections held on October 15, 2023, he won a parliamentary seat again.

On December 18, 2023, he was appointed Secretary of State at the Ministry of State Assets.

On January 17, 2025, he took office the Minister of Science and Higher Education.