He was born in Wrocław in 1971.

In 1990 he graduated from the Third High School in Wroclaw, and in 1995 he graduated with a master's degree in physics from the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology of the Wrocław Tech. He defended his doctorate in the discipline of physics in 1997 at the Wrocław Tech's Institute of Physics, and was habilitated in 2002 at its Institute of Physics.

He received the title of professor of physics in 2009.

Since 2017, he has been a member of Academia Europaea, and since 2019 a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He has also worked as a guest at the National Research Council of Canada (master's and doctoral fellowships), the University of Tennessee (postdoctoral fellow 1997-2000, visiting professor 2001-2007) and the University of Cambridge (Marie Curie Fellow 2008-2010). He has lectured at universities around the world.

Scientific career

Prof. Arkadiusz Wojs' main areas of research are theoretical and computational solid state physics. He has co-authored six books (including Quantum Dots, Springer-Verlag 1998, Quantum Hall Systems, Oxford University Press 2003) and 187 papers indexed in Scopus, cited 2,835 times by other authors (Hirsch index 33). His scientific output also includes 50 lectures at international scientific conferences. He is the promoter of ten completed and one initiated doctoral dissertations.

He is the recipient of the main Prize of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding scientific achievement in the category of basic research (2011), as well as the American Physical Society Outstanding Referee Award (2013), the Foundation for Polish Science Master Professor Subsidy (2012. ), the Wojciech Rubinowicz Prize of the Polish Physical Society (2008), the EU Marie Curie Fellowship (2008), the Prime Minister's Prize for Habilitation (2003), the Stefan Pienkowski Prize of Division III of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2002) and the MEN Prize for PhD (1998).

He chaired the scientific committees of major international conferences (Congress of Polish Physicists 2017, Jaszowiec 2019). Member of editorial committees of journals (“Condensed Matter”, “Progress of Physics”), reviewer of leading scientific journals (including “Science” and “Nature”).

Organizational activities

Rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology for the terms of 2020-2024 and 2024-2028.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology at Wrocław University of Science and Technology from 2015 to 2020. He was head of the Department of Theoretical Physics (since 2014). He chaired the Discipline Council and Degree Committee in the discipline of Physical Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar. He was active on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association.

He also holds positions outside the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Among others, he is a member of the Physics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Scientific Council of the Institute of Low Temperatures and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław, the Scientific Council of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, the Wrocław Scientific Society and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

Since 2018, he has been the academic director of the Wrocław Knowledge Hub of Academia Europaea.

Privately

Prof. Arkadiusz Wójs is the father of high school student Natalia and owner of a dog Bourbon. In his spare time he plays tennis, runs, swims and reads. He is primarily interested in the subtle connections between science, art and the human mind. His passions are people and music, which is why, as a holder of a music lover's card of the National Forum of Music, he attends most concerts organized by the Wrocław philharmonic.

A graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Lodz, from which he graduated in 2001 with a master's degree in electronics and telecommunications with honors. In the same year, he began doctoral studies at the Faculty of Electronics of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He completed it in 2006, defending with distinction his doctoral dissertation on deterministic modeling of radio wave propagation in confined spaces.

After his thesis defense, he began working at the Institute of Telecommunications and Acoustics of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, focusing his research interests on digital radio systems, short-range wireless systems and intrasystem electromagnetic compatibility in wireless sensor networks.

For achievements in the latter area, he was awarded a postdoctoral degree in 2014. In the period prior to the conferral of the title of professor, he was engaged in Internet of Things (IoT) issues in the context of electromagnetic cybersecurity in IoT systems, culminating in the publication of the author's book “Radio Interfaces in the Internet of Things Systems. Performance studies” ( Springer, 2020).

He received a professorial appointment in 2022.

Vice-rector for education in 2023-2024 and term 2024-2028.

He actively cooperates with the industrial environment in the fields of teaching, research and engineering, resulting, for example, in certified implementations in companies such as Nokia, Toyota and radio stations. He also oversees the “LokalDAB” network of three digital radio transmitters operating in the DAB+ standard in the Wroclaw municipality (the largest national multiplex in terms of the number of radio stations served, i.e., currently 15), designed and launched as a result of a project led by him at the National Research and Development Center.

He is deputy head of the Department of Telecommunications and ICT. He also serves as supervisor of the “Telecommunications” course of study.

The center of the professor's private life is his wife Anna - an economist, daughters Oliwia and Jagoda, and his dog Nutka (breed: Greek Gentile). He is a graduate of a first degree music school in piano class, and as a hobby he is involved in simultaneous translation into English and road cycling. Odpoczywa, czytając m.in.: Ci Xin Liu, U. Eco, S. Lem, O. Tokarczuk, I. Falcones, C.R. Zafon, B. Tuchman.

Prof. Dariusz Łydżba at Wrocław University of Science and Technology served, among other positions, as dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, director of the Institute of Geotechnics and Hydrotechnics, head of the Department of Geotechnics, Hydrotechnics, Underground and Water Engineering.

From 2020 to 2024, he served as Vice-Rector for Cooperation. Since September 1, 2024, he has served as Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation.

Prof. Dariusz Łydżba's scientific interests and research are related to multiscale mathematical modeling of physical processes in soil and rock media, identification of microstructure measures and their relationships with effective parameters of composites, inverse issues of homogenization theory and problems of mathematical modeling of large-scale geotechnical issues in terms of random field theory and rational design of earth and underground structures.

He is the author or co-author of more than 100 published scientific papers and more than 100 reports (SPR reports) and expert reports on research performed for the economy. For his monograph “Applications of the asymptotic homogenization method in the mechanics of soils and rocks”, he received the scientific award of the Division IV of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2003.

The professor is a happy husband and father of a grown daughter. He has been collecting fountain pens for years.

Graduated from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (1998).

After graduation, she worked in business, where she was involved in environmental engineering in the broadest sense. In 2006, she graduated with honors from the doctoral program at the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

In 2013, on the basis of her scientific achievement “Integrated purification of flue gases from SO₂, NO_x and Hg in wet flue gas desulfurization systems”, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree in the field of technical sciences, in the scientific discipline of Environmental Engineering (speciality Atmospheric Protection).

She received the title of professor in the discipline of Environmental Engineering, Mining and Power Engineering in 2024.

She also completed postgraduate studies in International Relations and Foreign Trade at the Wroclaw University of Economics (2000).

Prof. Krzyzynska holds many positions at Wroclaw Tech. From 2020 to 2025, she was associate dean for internationalization and outreach at Wroclaw Tech's Doctoral School. Since 2021, she has been co-chair of the Interdisciplinary Science Seminar of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, and since 2024, she has been plenipotentiary of the Rector of Wroclaw University of Science and Technology for the Unite! network. In 2023, she was elected to the University Council of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology - as a representative of the university community.

She works in the Departament of Air Conditioning, Heating, Gas Engineering and Air Protection at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering. She also held the position of reseacher in the Department of Energy Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague (2019-2023).

In 2007-2009 and 2010-2011, she was a research intern (postdoc) and then as a visiting scientist at the largest U.S. Scientific Park - Research Triangle Park/RTP (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development and National Risk Management Research Laboratory).

As a winner of the prestigious Top 500 Innovators internship program, she went to the USA to Stanford University (MBA level) in 2013.

Prof. Krzyzynska's scientific interests include processes for removing pollutants from exhaust gases of various origins, new techniques for their purification, as well as issues related to understanding the mechanisms of behavior of individual pollutants.

The second research stream is the thermochemical processing of waste of various origins (tires, municipal waste and sewage sludge), including the purification of pyrolysis gases and the conversion of pyrolysis by-products into energetically valuable products. And their use in the purification of flue gases of various origins from heavy metals, sulfur and nitrogen compounds, as well as carbon dioxide.

Most of Prof. Krzyzynska's research is international in nature and is carried out in cooperation with such centers as Brunel University of London, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic).

A graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. In 2007, she defended with distinction her diploma in painting under Prof. Stanislaw Kortyka and in painting design in architecture and urbanism under Prof. Wojciech Kaniowski. In 2012, she received a doctoral degree in fine arts in the discipline of fine arts, and in 2017 she defended her habilitation thesis.

Professor of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. She headed the Department of Architecture and Visual Arts at the Faculty of Architecture until August 31, 2024. From 2020 to 2024, she also served as the Rector's Plenipotentiary for Anti-Discrimination, and represented Wrocław Tech in the Equal Treatment Council of the President of Wrocław.

In 2020-24, she chaired the University's Equality Policy Team, which prepared the Equality Plan and published the report “Work-life balance of female and male employees and PhD students of Wrocław University of Science and Technology”.

She is also a member of the nationwide Academic Safety and Equality Network (ASBiR).

She was program curator of the Socato Art Gallery, and originator and curator of the nationwide Young Art Review “Fresh Blood”. She is a member of the International Group of Artists Using the Language of Geometry founded by Professor Bożena Kowalska.

Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, winner of the Award of the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship for the best diploma (2007). She also received an honorable mention in the 3rd Marian Michalik National Contest for Paintings for Young Painters (2007). In 2022, she received the Silver Medal of Arts, Sciences and Letters from the Academic Society of Arts-Sciences-Lettres for her artistic achievements.

Her works have been presented in Poland and abroad in nearly 30 solo exhibitions and nearly 60 group and post-competition exhibitions.

Author of three books - “Jasmina Berezy” (Nisza/ Layers Publishing House, 2020), “Black Swans, White Fluff” (Layers Publishing House, 2022), “Luna” (Layers Publishing House, 2024).

A graduate of the Department of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw (1997). He has been affiliated with the Wrocław Tech's Department of Chemistry since 2002. He received his habilitation in 2012 and the title of professor in 2021.

His research interests revolve around bioanalysis with the application of NMR nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and MS mass spectrometry in monitoring pathological states of the body, diagnosis and investigation of the causes of civilization and inflammatory diseases. In addition, he conducts research on food authentication, metabolomic changes of cancer cells under the influence of physicochemical factors, and the causes of drug resistance of microorganisms.

He has co-authored more than 115 publications in Philadelphia-listed journals, and his work has been cited more than 2,400 times to date. His achievements include co-authorship in eight patents. He was the supervisor of six doctoral dissertations and more than 70 theses.

He is the recipient of scholarships financed by the Foundation for Polish Science (2003, 2004, 2005), a collective Prize of the Minister of National Education and Sport (2003) and numerous awards of the Rector of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

From 2012 to 2020, he served as Vice Dean for General Affairs of the Faculty of Chemistry at Wrocław Tech, and from 2020 to 2024 as Dean of the Faculty. He is a co-founder and former vice president of the Polish Metabolic Society. He is also a member of the Polish Chemical Society and the Polish Biochemical Society. He is active locally in the Wroclaw Scientific Society, serving as a member of the society's board of directors.

Privately, he enjoys active leisure activities, especially mountain biking and cross-country skiing.

Prof. Tomasz Nowakowski served as vice-rector for organization and development of the university from 2020 to 2024. Since September 1, 2024, he has been vice-rector for informatization.

He has held positions such as dean and vice dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, director and deputy director of the Institute of Construction and Operation of Machinery, headed the institute's plant and department, most recently, Operation of Technical Systems. He was chairman of the Council of the Mechanical Engineering Discipline.

The professor's scientific interests are in the area of reliability and safety engineering. They concern the study, assessment and modeling of reliability of mechanical objects, issues of engineering the operation of complex technical systems, and the resilience to disruption of logistics and transportation systems.

Prof. Nowakowski's scientific achievements include more than 340 works, including 270 scientific publications and 70 works in the nature of reports and reports. He has promoted more than 150 engineers and master's degree holders in three fields of study. He designed and coordinated the work at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering related to the launch of the transportation major in 2002. He is the supervisor of 15 defended doctoral dissertations. He is starting to supervise an implementation doctorate in the discipline of Mechanical Engineering.

He is a member of the Transport Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was chairman of the Polish Logistics Society for two terms. He works with the European Safety and Reliability Association and the European Safety, Reliability & Data Association (member of the board).

Privately: he has always skied. He enjoys listening to Portuguese fado music and film music. He reads memoirs and detective stories. He grows cacti.

Piotr Górski, PhD, vice-rector for Student Affairs for the 2020-2024 and 2024-2028 terms.

Previously served as plenipotentiary of the rector for socio-cultural and sports activities of students and doctoral students and plenipotentiary of the rector for student activities and entrepreneurship.

Employed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, where he was Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Dean's Representative for Faculty Promotion.

Dr. Piotr Górski's research interests include modeling and simulation of spatial mechanisms using the multibody systems method and PLC programming.

He has carried out many research and development projects, including the construction of a hair reimplantation machine using the FUE method and the development and implementation of a new technology for manufacturing personalized steering wheels for passenger cars. He also prepared training projects for technical high school students from Lower Silesia.

Privately, Piotr Górski finds time for downhill skiing, ballroom dancing, bicycle and mountain hiking and new technologies.