Scientific discipline: Civil Engineering and Transport
Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering
E-mail: slawomir.czarnecki@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• non-destructive testing methods
• metrology of surface morphology
• cementitious composites
• machine learning
• environmentally friendly concretes

A Vratislavian from birth, Sławomir Czarnecki received his doctorate for his most significant scientific achievement to date, which is the research-based development of an identification model for the bonding of a concrete repair layer with a base layer using non-destructive methods and artificial intelligence. He is currently conducting interdisciplinary research in non-destructive testing, tribological phenomena on the surface of cementitious composites, and machine learning.

Scientific discipline: Automation, electronic, and electrical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems
E-mail: olga.rac-rumijowska@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• polymer nanocomposites
• electrically conductive fibers and fabrics

A graduate of Materials Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Wrocław University of Technology. In 2018, she defended her doctoral dissertation with honors entitled "Analysis of electrical and structural properties of nanocomposite polymer fibers" at the Faculty of Microsystem Electronics and Photonics. Currently is an assistant professor at the Department of Microsystems at the Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems.

In his scientific work, he combines knowledge in the field of materials engineering, chemistry and electronics, developing new materials such as electrically conductive composites, gas-sensitive materials or nanoparticles for the needs of electronics.

Currently, she is working on modifying polymer fibers and fabrics in order to give them antibacterial, mechanical, sensor and, above all, electrically conductive properties.
She started her research during her studies by implementing a research project “Diamond Grant”. Olga Rac-Rumijowska has been awarded the Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarship twice (for students in 2013 and for doctoral students in 2016) and the START Scholarship in 2019 awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science. In addition, she is a co-author of 20 publications from the Philadelphia List and 9 patents.

Scientific discipline: Mathematics
Unit: Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics
E-mail: michal.balcerek@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Applications of mathematics
• Stochastic processes
• Probability calculus

Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics. Associated with the Wrocław University of Science and Technology and mathematics since the beginning of his studies, except for a one-year break to work in business. His doctoral thesis, entitled Stochastic and numerical modelling of anomalous diffusion signals’’, was defended in 2018. In his scientific activity, he deals with problems of modelling physical phenomena of random nature by means of stochastic processes. He is no stranger to collaboration with specialists in other fields. As part of a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Birmingham, UK, he worked on the use of neural networks to identify and track single particles moving inside cells. He has authored more than a dozen papers in peer-reviewed international journals. When possible, he also tries to popularise mathematics and encourage everyone to like it!

Scientific discipline: Management and Quality Sciences
Unit: Faculty of Management
E-mail: yash.chawla@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• marketing management
• innovation management
• sustainable development

Yash holds five academic degrees: a PhD (Hons) in Management and Quality Sciences, an MSc in Renewable Energy Technology, an MA in International Business, a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (Hons), and a BSc in Computer Applications. He collaborates with researchers from over 14 countries and conducts interdisciplinary research into sustainability, circular economy, diffusion of innovation, social media communication, energy markets and policy, business marketing, and consumer awareness and engagement. Moreover, with over 10 years of professional experience as an academic, trainer, and business consultant, he has been actively involved in projects for universities and companies in Europe, the UK, South Asia, and the Middle East.

Scientific discipline: Civil Engineering, Geodesy and Transport
Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering
E-mail: marcin.chwala@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• probabilistic methods in geotechnical engineering
• modelling the spatial variability of subsoil parameters
• foundation bearing capacity

Marcin Chwała, PhD, Eng received his engineering degree and master's degree from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Wrocław University of Science and Technology in 2012 and 2013 respectively. His doctoral dissertation concerned the application of random field theory and multi-block failure mechanisms for the assessment of the bearing capacity of direct foundations accounting for the spatial variation of soil parameters.

After obtaining his PhD in 2018, he has been working on the development of methods for the optimal placement of soil soundings and the bearing capacity of direct foundations on random soil taking three spatial dimensions into account. In 2022 he did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Leibniz University Hannover.

Scientific discipline: Mechanical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail: anna.dmitruk@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• MAX type phases
• Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis (SHS)
• Foundry methods of producing composite materials
• Casting of light metals
• Thermal energy storage
• Processing of plastics and polymer composite materials

Employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Lightweight Elements Engineering, Foundry and Automation, where from 2020 she is also the Deputy Head of the Department. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. In 2018, at the same Faculty, she defended her doctoral thesis with honors. Her research interests include the production and application of composite materials, MAX phases and MXenes and materials used in thermal energy storage, light alloys casting, metallic foams, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis and polymers processing. She is the author or co-author of several dozen international scientific publications. In 2017, she carried out a research internship financed by the KMM-VIN association at the Tecnalia Research and Development Center in San Sebastian, Spain. In 2018 and 2019, as part of cooperation in the CERIC-ERIC (EU) consortium, during short-term research visits, she conducted research at the National Institute of Materials Physics in Bucharest (Romania) and at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). She actively participates in national and international research projects related to energy or composite materials, including: ERANet-LAC (EU), H2020 (EU), LIDER (NCBR), Szybka Ścieżka (NCBR).

Scientific discipline: Chemical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: marta.ziemianek-dudek@pwr.edu.pl 

Research interests:

• synthesis of molecular switches
• photochromism
• molecular probes for DNA
• supramolecular chemistry

Marta Dudek is an assistant professor at the Institute of Advanced Materials at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, where she obtained her PhD degree in 2019 in the discipline of chemical sciences. She gained additional experience during several internships at the: University of Strasbourg (France), École Normale Supérieure in Cachan (France), Humboldt University (Germany), Institute des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (France) and University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Her scientific interests involve the design, synthesis and characterization of new organic compounds, mostly molecular switches, as well as their application to modulate the function/structure of biopolymers. Marta Dudek received two grants for her research: Preludium and Sonata from the National Science Centre. She is a scholarship holder of the prestigious scientific awards: scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland for PhD students, START Scholarship awarded by The Foundation for Polish Science.

Scientific discipline: Physics
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Techology
E-mail: mateusz.dyksik@pwr.edu.pl 

Research interests:

• magneto-spectroscopy of semiconductors,
• excitons and polarons in two-dimensional materials,
• perovskites for photovoltaic applications.

Mateusz Dyksik obtained his Ph.D.in Physics in the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WroclawTech) in February 2019. He then pursued postdoctoral work in the Quantum Electronics group, Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, Toulouse, France from March 2019 to 2022. In September 2022 rejoined the Department of Experimental Physics at WroclawTech. Currently he holds the assistant professor position, conducting research on emerging 2D materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides and organic-inorganic perovskites.

Scientific discipline: Physical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
E-mail: izabela.garaszczuk@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• tear film dynamics assessment,
• ocular biomechanics,
• contact lenses,
• clinical optometry.

PhD in both engineering and life sciences, optometrist, ophthalmic optician. Granted a double PhD: in Optometry (University of Valencia, Spain) and in Biomedical Engineering (Wrocław University of Science and Technology). Received START scholarship for young scientists granted by the Foundation for Polish Science. She worked as a Marie-Curie Early Stage Researcher at the Investigation Group of Optometry at the University of Valencia (Spain) on interdisciplinary research on dry eye disease diagnosis in cooperation with researchers from Spain, Poland, UK and Germany. Her research is a combination of biomedical signal processing, biophysics and ophthalmology. Her studies on tear film dynamics assessment has been presented on three continents and in three languages, including twice at the biggest ophthalmology research conference in the world (ARVO).

Scientific discipline: Technical Informatics
Unit: Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
E-mail: roza.goscien@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• mathematical modelling
• optimisation
• algorithm design
• ICT networks
• survivability of ICT systems and networks

Róża Goścień received her doctorate in technical sciences in 2013 from the Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław Tech. Currently employed at the Department of Computer Systems and Networks of the university, the researcher deals with the topics of modelling and optimisation of survivable ICT networks. She has co-authored over 50 scientific articles, including papers published in such prestigious journals as IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Network, and received numerous awards for her work, including best research paper in the journal Optical Switching and Networking and at the RNDM conference.

Scientific discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail: konrad.gruber@pwr.edu.pl

Reserch interest:

• Additive manufacturing (3D printing)
• Optimization of additive manufacturing processes
• Materials development and characterization
• Laser powder bed fusion
• Aerospace alloys
• Heat treatment
• Metal powders
• Presentation and visualization of scientific results

Konrad Gruber, PhD, Eng is an assistant professor in the Department of Laser Technology, Automation and Production Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Science and Technology of Wrocław. He was awarded the Prime Minister of Poland Prize in 2021 for an outstanding doctoral thesis, in which he proposed an additive manufacturing method to produce thin-wall aircraft engine parts through laser powder bed fusion 3D printing.

After defending his doctorate, Konrad Gruber, PhD gained post-doctoral experience during internships in Switzerland, Germany and the United States, including one at the Paul Scherrer Institute (ETH Domain, Switzerland), awarded through the NAWA BEKKER scholarship. Konrad's current scientific interests focus on modifying aerospace-grade nickel alloys through in situ alloying of doped metal powders, directly in laser powder bed fusion process, as well as on the development of skills in the field of machine learning methods to optimize additive manufacturing processes.

Scientific discipline: Physical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
E-mail: katarzyna.gwozdz@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• structural defects in semiconductors
• plasmonic effect in photovoltaics
• piro- and ferroelectric materials in solar cells and photodetectors

Katarzyna Gwóźdź works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Quantum Technologies at Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, where she conducts research on new materials for photovoltaics, electronics and optoelectronics, focusing on their physical properties. In 2020 she obtained the degree of PhD after defending dissertation entitled “Optimization of Si-ZnO solar cells”. She has spend over a year in Institute of Applied Physics in Technische Universität Dresden financed from DAAD program.  As part of this cooperation she studies defects in semiconductors using electrical methods.

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Scientific discipline: Environmental Engineering, Mining, and Power Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Environmental Engineering
E-mail: jakub.jurasz@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• transformation of the power system
• complementarity and extreme events in renewable energy sources
•  hybrid generation systems
• water-food-energy nexus

Jakub Jurasz, PhD, Eng (1990), a graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. PhD in the field of Production Engineering (2016). Postdoctoral fellowship (2018-2020) at MDH University, Sweden. Author/co-author of 45 papers published in journals indexed in the Web of Science database. Holder of scholarships of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2020-2023) and Start–FNP (2019). Co-organizer of Summer School on Sustainable Energy. Associate editor in the Journal of Energy Storage.

Scientific discipline: Automation, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Space Technologies
Unit: Faculty of Electrical Engineering
E-mail: dominika.kaczorowska@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• energy management in microgrids,
• energy storage control,
• optimization methods in electrical engineering,
• optimization algorithms based on computational intelligence.

She defended her PhD degree in 2020 with distinction. The dissertation focused on the application of computational intelligence methods to optimize the operation of microgrids. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering and Electrical Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Currently, she deals with issues related to: control algorithms for the operation of devices, which are part of microgrids; the use of computational intelligence methods to optimize the operation of separated networks; research and search for new optimization algorithms..

Scientific discipline: Civil engineering and transport
Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering
E-mail: anna.karolak@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• wood testing methods,
• analysis of static behavior of elements and nodes of wooden structures in historical objects and methods of strengthening these objects,
• history of the development of roof truss structures.

Assistant professor at the Department of Building Structures at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. She graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. She obtained the degree of PhD in 2021, defending with honors her doctoral dissertation entitled "Analysis of static behavior of selected carpentry joints in historic timber objects". In her scientific activity, she deals mainly with historical wooden structures, in particular carpentry joints. She managed the PRELUDIUM project financed by the National Science Center, concerning the study of historical carpentry joints. Currently, she is a member of the interdisciplinary research team in the LIDER project financed by The National Center for Research and Development, concerning the application of cellulosic materials in architecture. She is an author of over a dozen publications in internationally and nationally ranked journals.

Scientific discipline: Environmental engineering, mining, and energy
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering
E-mail: anna.kisiela-czajka@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Environmental chemical engineering (diffusion separation processes, process equipment, thermal conversion of fuels and wastes, resources recovery);
• The theory of the gas adsorption process on the surface of carbonaceous substances;
• Instrumental methods in the study of adsorbents and catalysts;
• Functionalization of the porous and chemical structure,
• Modeling of chemical kinetics with elements of statistics.

A graduate of the Faculty of Chemical and the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, laureate of faculty competitions for the best TOP 10 graduates, doctor of technical sciences with honours, currently an assistant professor in the discipline of Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy. Member of the Council of the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering for 2021-2024. Popularizer of knowledge at the Lower Silesian Science Festival.

She conducts interdisciplinary research on the functionality of carbon materials of various origins and their application in the processes of adsorption and catalytic removal of pollutants from flue and process gases. Academic Leader of Innovation 2019 for the project of Particle and gaseous pollutant filter for central heating boilers. Participant in workshops in Ukraine, Italy and South Africa. In the experience of the researcher, she actively participates in projects of grant agencies/enterprises of national and international range (UE, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, NCN, NCBR, PGE GiEK S.A., KGHM S.A., PGNiG S.A., ESKOM). Winner of the scholarship programs of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, the Elsevier publishing house and the Polish Society of Mechanical Engineers and Technicians. Currently interested in researching chars from technological wastes as precursors of activated carbons. Involved in the development of a pilot installation for catalytic pyrolysis of wastes.

Scientific discipline: Information and communication technology
Unit: Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
E-mail: jan.kocon@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• artificial intelligence
• deep neural networks
• natural language processing
• sentiment and emotion recognition in text
• personalization methods in subjective tasks
• personalized active learning
• multi-task and multi-modal learning

Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology. Co-author of more than 50 scientific articles in the field of natural language processing. In the CLARIN-PL project carried out at the Wrocław University of Technology, he is the leader of the team responsible for recognizing affective responses evoked by the text. Most of his work is currently related to developing personalized models based on deep neural networks for subjective affective reactions: emotion, offensiveness, humor, sentiment, etc. This research leads to the targeting of artificial intelligence methods to the needs of the person and the consideration of individual characteristics of the person, and the context in which the text is evaluated in the decision-making process. This work also has practical applications in the form of services used by researchers in the humanities and social sciences, as well as by media monitoring companies.

Scientific discipline: Biomedical Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
E-mail: klaudia.kozlowska@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• gait and balance analysis
• human movement science
• mobile devices and wearables
• medical signal and image processing
• neurodegenerative diseases
• neurosurgery
• cancers
• meta-analyses.

Klaudia Kozłowska, PhD, Eng is an Assistant Professor at Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, and her research interests include gait and balance analysis (in both healthy and people with neurodegenerative diseases).

Her PhD dissertation (2021) focused on revisiting the interpretation of long-range fractal correlations observed in stride time and length time series. She is a co-author of several scientific articles in fields of computational biology, movement science, neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. In addition to gait studies, she is currently working on classification of colorectal polyps and handwriting analysis in Alzheimer’s disease.

Scientific discipline: Mechanical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail: aleksandra.krolicka@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• High-strength steels with a multi-phase structure,
• In-use properties of bainitic steels,
• Thermal and mechanical stability of retained austenite in bainitic steels,
• Designing of novel bainitic steels considering their potential applications,
• Electron microscopy methods in the characterization of engineering materials,
• Heat treatment processes of high-strength steels. 

Aleksandra Królicka, PhD, Eng is an assistant professor at the Department of Metal Forming, Welding and Metrology at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, where she obtained her PhD degree in 2022 in the discipline of mechanical engineering. She realized a postdoctoral internship at The National Center for Metallurgical Research - Spanish Center for Scientific Research (CENIM-CSIC) in Spain, where she has conducted collaborative research with Prof. F.G. Caballero (as part of the Bekker programme, National Agency for Academic Exchange). Cooperation with a leading/pioneer research group significantly influenced her competencies related to advanced research methodology, revealing new research directions and scientific maturity in relation to the interpretation of research results.

Her scientific field of interest focuses particularly on nanocrystalline bainitic steels and strategies to enhance their in-use properties, which determine their application in industry. In this research area, Aleksandra Królicka is also the principal investigator of the Preludium 19 project (Concept of high-strength, thermally stable nanostructured bainitic steel with increased weldability), financed by the National Science Centre. She is a scholarship holder of the prestigious scientific awards: scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland for outstanding young researchers and START Scholarship awarded by The Foundation for Polish Science. al wastes as precursors of activated carbons. Involved in the development of a pilot installation for catalytic pyrolysis of wastes.

Scientific discipline: Information and communication technology
Unit: Faculty of Information and Communication Technology
E-mail: pawel.ksieniewicz@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Data stream processing
• Classification of difficult data
• Multidimensional data processing
• Ensemble methods

Assistant professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Networks at the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology. In 2017, he defended his doctorate on the representation and analysis of multidimensional data. In his later research activities, he focused on the issues of difficult data classification, with particular emphasis on highly imbalanced problems and data streams susceptible to concept drift. With pleasure and a smile on his face, he also undertakes work in the field of supporting optimization algorithms with artificial intelligence models and the editing of project proposals. Since December 2021, he has been managing the SWAROG project (Artificial Intelligence Disinformation Detection System), which received the maximum NCBiR score in the INFOSTRATEG I competition, receiving funding in the amount of over PLN 8.5 million. Privately, he likes cats and matplotlib library.

Scientific discipline: Chemical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: lukasz.lamch@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• self-organisation of amphiphilic compounds;
• nanocarriers of biologically active substances;
• multifunctional surfactants;
• graft and block amphiphilic copolymers;
• dispersed systems in aqueous and solvent-borne environments;
• surface and interface modifications at micro- and macroscale;
• formulations containing specialty surfanctants
• functionalization of amphiphilic polymers

Łukasz Lamch, Ph.D., Eng, completed his engineering and master studies at Wrocław University of Science and Technology (discipline – Chemical Technology). In 2018 received his doctoral degree at Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Technical and Engineering Sciences, discipline – Chemical Technology). In 2021 he had post-doctoral training at Szeged University (Hangary), where he was conducting research on e.g. use of hydrophobically functionalized polyelectrolites and biocompatibile polyesters as building blocks for bioactive compounds carrier systems. Within scientific and didactical activity, Łukasz Lamch, Ph.D., Eng., cooperate with numerous companies, e.g. EBS InkJet Systems (Wrocław), Madonis (Wieruszów) and PCC Rokita (Brzeg Dolny), taking part in the design and optimization of formulations containing multifunctional polymers and surfactants. In 2022 Łukasz Lamch, Ph.D., Eng., was granted NCN project, concerning reactive silicon-type surface active compounds.

Scientific discipline: Physical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
E-mail: patrycja.lydzba@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Nonequilibrium dynamics of closed quantum systems,
• Quantum chaos,
• Integrable systems,
• Strongly correlated systems.

Patrycja Łydżba, PhD, Eng works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Physics within the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology. Her research focuses on properties of closed quantum systems, particularly their non-equilibrium dynamics. Recently, she has become interested in models that exhibit the Hilbert space fragmentation. In 2019, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Strongly correlated systems in geometry R2 and external magnetic field: Quantum Hall effect in the framework of braid groups." She completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, which contributed to her collaboration with Lev Vidmar and Marcos Rigol. As a part of this collaboration, she is developing the concept of quantum chaotic quadratic models.

Scientific discipline: Architecture and urban planning
Unit: Faculty of Architecture
E-mail: joanna.majczyk@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• history and theory of Architecture and Urban Planning in 20th century,
• Socialist Realism and European Modernism (art, architecture, urban planning, society),
• Female Architects, architecture and politics.

Joanna Majczyk defended her doctoral thesis in 2020 at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. She is currently working as an adjunct professor at the Department of Architecture. Her research interests are the history of architecture, art, and urban planning. In 2021, she received a grant from the National Science Centre to research the so-called Aryan Paragraph in architecture. Joanna Majczyk has authored or co-authored a dozen scientific publications. She is also a curator and designer of the Exhibition "Tomasz Mańkowski. Architecture is the most important thing" at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław (2022).

Scientific discipline: Information and Communication Technology
Unit: Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications
E-mail: mateusz.madry@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Optical fiber sensors
• Internet of Things
• Optical fiber networks

Mateusz Mądry, PhD, Eng works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunications and Teleinformatics at the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications. His doctoral dissertation involved the development of new optical fiber sensors for temperature, strain, and relative humidity measurements.

He completed internships at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels) and National Chung Hsing University (Taichung). He received an award for the best publication (category: devices) during the 19th edition of the International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON). Currently, he is engaged in research on distributed optical fiber sensors.

Scientific discipline: Architecture and Urban Planning
Unit: Faculty of Architecture
E-mail: anna.misniakiewicz@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Universal Design,
• Pro-social architecture,
• Human Centered Design, Co-Creation,
• Sustainable urban development,
• Ageing and senior friendly architecture,
• Agent-based modeling in urban and architectural research.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Architectural and Structural Design at the Faculty of Architecture, co-founder of the Universal Design Laboratory at Wroclaw Tech and member of the accessibility audit and certification team operating at the Wroclaw Tech Centre for Innovation and Business. Has participated in research funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and Horizon2020. Her scientific interests focus on the social role of architecture, barrier-free architecture, and design for the elderly.

Author of several scientific and popular publications. Architect, Member of the Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland, author of several dozen architectural projects. Has held internships (design, research, teaching) at, among others, the Institute of Advance Architecture of Catalonia (Spain) and SLPU Menis (Spain). For her doctoral thesis entitled The Role of Urban Space in the Social Activation of the Elderly, she received the Prize of the Minister of Development and Technology 2021 and the Prize in the 18th edition of the All-Poland PEFRON "Open Doors" Competition. Scholarship holder and finalist of the POLITYKA 2022 Science Awards. Participant of the School of Pioneers of the Polish Development Fund, ambassador of the Girls in Science programme of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Scientific discipline: Environmental Engineering, Mining, and Power Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering
E-mail: magdalena.nems@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• power engineering using renewable sources
• solar energy and energy storage
• theoretical and experimental studies on flat plate and concentrating solar collectors and their interaction with heat accumulators
• energy self-sufficiency of buildings based on RES
• possibilities for integrating energy systems into the building structure
• HVAC system simulations in TRNSYS software

She comes from Radomsko, where she graduated from the Electric-Electronic School Complex. Since the beginning of her scientific career, she has been working at the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, where she obtained her MSc degree in power engineering and PhD degree in mechanical engineering and operation. Since 2015, she has been working as an adjunct professor, currently at the Department of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Sources.

Author of publications and patents in the field of solar energy and energy storage. Holder of scholarships from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Head of the Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Scientific discipline: Civil engineering and transport
Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering
E-mail: pawel.niewiadomski@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• research methods for cement composites
• design and modification of mortars and concretes,
• use of waste materials as a substitute for cement and aggregate,
• the use of cellulosic materials in the construction of buildings.

Assistant professor at the Department of Materials Engineering and Construction Processes at the Faculty of Civil Engineering (WBLiW) of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (PWr). In 2013, he gradueted his master's studies at WBLiW PWr and began PhD studies. In 2017, he defended his PhD dissertation with honors entitled "Influence of the addition of selected nanoparticles on the properties of self-compacting concrete". He completed research internships at Aalto University in Finland and Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. In his research work, he deals with the design and modification of cement composites with nano and micro metric additives such as nanoparticles, microsilica and fly ash, and the assessment of their impact on the rheological, physical and mechanical properties of mortars and concretes, including self-compacting and high-strength concrete. In his scientific activity, he deals with the use of waste materials, including those from the petrochemical and copper industries, as a partial substitute for cement and aggregate in concrete mixtures. He manages the MINIATURA 5 grant funded by the National Science Center, dealing with the topic of partial replacing of cement in cement composites with waste material from refining processes. Member of the interdisciplinary research team in the LIDER project financed by the National Center for Research and Development, concerning the use of cellulosic materials in architecture. The contractor of the grant entitled "Methods and methods of protection and defense against HPM pulses". Author of several conference presentations and scientific publications. Professionally active participant in the process of designing building objects.

Scientific discipline: Chemical Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: daria.podstawczyk@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• 3D printing
• 4D printing
• bioprinting
• functional materials
• hydrogels
• circular economy
• recovery of water and raw materials from wastewater

Daria Podstawczyk, PhD, Eng graduated from Wrocław University of Science and Technology with a Master's degree in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering. She received her doctoral degree in 2016 in the discipline of Chemical Engineering. In 2018, she completed a research placement at Texas A&M University in the United States. She is a winner of a grant for outstanding young researchers conferred by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. She was the head of projects under the NCS Preludium and Sonata grant systems, as well as an SGOP (Smart Growth Operational Programme) project conducted in cooperation with MPWiK S.A. (the municipal water management company) in Wrocław.

Discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanics, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
Contact: dariusz.pyka@pwr.edu.pl

Scientific interests:

• Fast-changing phenomena
• Ballistic Shields
• Shaped Charges and EFP
• Static and Dynamic Numerical Analysis
• Fracture Mechanics
• Homogenization
• Metallic, Polymer and Ceramics Composite Materials

Dariusz Pyka is the Head of Dynamics and Modeling Team at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from 2021 till date. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanics, Materials and Biomedical Engineering recently honored with the medal of Prof. Jan Szmelter for conducting scientific research in the field of fast-changing phenomena based on the energy of the system.

Scientific discipline: Environmental engineering, mining, and energy
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering
E-mail: zbigniew.rogala@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• LNG regasification using heating liquid
• Recondensation and liquefaction of cryogenic liquids
• Joule -Thomson refrigerators operating with gas mixtures
• Modeling and optimization of thermal processes
• Energy transformation
• Adsorption refrigeration
• Systemic cryotherapy
• Purification, liquefaction and storage of biogas

Zbigniew Rogala defended his PhD on adsorption refrigeration in 2019 at the Wrocław University of Technology. He currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cryogenics and Aerospace Engineering. As of 2019, he is the Head of the Laboratory of Cryogenics and Gas Technologies.

He has worked with polish and international industry and scientific institutions on R&D and industrial projects: Remontowa LNG Systems, CryoScience Poland, CryoCargo, Hyundai Heavy Industries, the European Antiproton and Ion Research Center, the Hydrogen Technology Center at the Energy Institute, and Whirlpool Poland. Currently, Dr. Eng. Zbigniew Rogala is engaged in the study of thermal-fluid phenomena related to low-power LNG cryocoolers and liquefiers and green transformation issues.

In 2019 he was nominated to the scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.  Zbigniew Rogala is the co-author of 22 scientific articles, with a total Impact Factor of 48 (4.7.22).

Scientific discipline: Chemical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: wioletta.rut@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• proteolytic enzymes
• biological chemistry
• protease visualization

Wioletta Rut is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemical Biology and Bioimaging, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. She has extensive experience in profiling substrate specificity of proteolytic enzymes, chemical tools synthesis, and their biochemical analysis as evidenced by multiple articles published in high impact journals. Her scientific interests are focused on developing new selective chemical tools for the examination of medically important proteolytic enzymes belonging to the group of serine, cysteine, and threonine proteases. Dr. Wioletta Rut received two grants for her research (OPUS and PRELUDIUM from the National Science Centre) and she is the co-inventor of international patent application. Her scientific work has been awarded several times with scholarships, including Scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland for outstanding young investigators, START Scholarship awarded by The Foundation for Polish Science, L’Oréal Poland and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship, the Rectors Award at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Biniecki award for her achievements in developing chemical biology tools for drug discovery.

Scientific discipline: Chemical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: anna.siekierka@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• electro-membrane processes
• separation of metal ions and energy extraction
• polymeric membranes, sorbents

Anna Siekierka defended her PhD with honours in 2019 at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. She completed two post-doc scholarships at Deakin University and Technical University of Liberec. Currently, she works as an assistant professor at Department of Process Engineering and Technology of Polymeric and Carbon Materials. Her main research interests oscillated about electromembrane processes for selective separation of metal ions and energy recovery. She specializes in the production of selective membranes and sorbents. Anna Siekierka was awarded for her achievements by Ministry of Education and Science (Outstanding Young Scientist) and the Foundation for Polish Science (START).

Scientific discipline: Automation, Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Space Technologies
Unit: Faculty of Electrical Engineering
E-mail: maciej.skowron@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• diagnosis of drive systems with induction and PMSM motors,
• application of deep learning methods in machine diagnostics,
• mathematical modelling of drive systems,
• implementation of artificial intelligence methods in programmable systems,
• fault detection, localization and compensation methods in drive systems (fault tolerant control).

PhDMaciej Skowron works as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements. In his research work, he combines the fields of computer science, neuroscience, as well as classical electrical engineering with electronics to develop tools that ensure safety and contribute to the reliability of electromechanical systems. In 2021, he defended with distinction his doctoral thesis entitled "Diagnostics of damage to the induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous motors using neural networks with deep learning". Winner of the Jan Mozrzymas Scholarship in recognition of outstanding achievements in interdisciplinary research. The clear contribution of his research to the development of the scientific field was recognised by the IEEE Poland Section committee with the Best Young Author Award.

Scientific discipline: Chemical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: dawid.skrzypczak@pwr.edu.pl

Dawid Skrzypczak, PhD, is an employee of the Department of Advanced Materials Technology at the Faculty of Chemistry. He received his PhD in the discipline of Chemical Engineering in 2021. He carries out research work on developing innovative products for precision agriculture using a renewable raw material base. He is engaged in the valorization of waste materials into fertilizers, plant growth biostimulants and feed additives. He is currently working on an innovative method of delivering plant nutrients by producing coatings based on natural polymers containing macro- and micronutrients and plant growth stimulants (including protein hydrolysates, biochars, hydrochars) on seeds. An important part of the research issues concerns the evaluation of the bioavailability of elements using in vitro and in vivo methods.  Dawid Skrzypczak is also focused on the use of natural biopolymers to produce hydrogel composite structures with controlled/slowed release properties of selected ingredients. Research work in this area is related to the production of composites combining biodegradable materials. Author of 34 publications (∑IF 197,879), contractor in scientific and R&D projects, co-author of 13 patents and patent applications.

Scientific discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
E-mail: mateusz.skwarski@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• high-strength aluminum alloys for lightweight structures,
• design of hot forming processes,
• hot forging processes,
• crashworthiness,
• sheet metal clinching processes,
• high-manganese steel.

Mateusz Skwarski, PhD, Eng is an assistant professor at the Department of Plastic Forming, Welding and Metrology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. In March 2021 he obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering, and then completed a post-doc internship at the Silesian University of Technology.

For several years, he has been researching high-strength aluminum alloys and their applications, for load-bearing structures in car bodies, the use of biodegradable plastics for energy-absorbing thin-walled structures, and testing the mechanical properties and structural changes of high-manganese steels. In addition, he works at increasing the strength of clinched joints and on improving hot forging processes. If you want a different photo than the one taken by the photographer, add it to the file.

Scientific discipline: Mechanical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Mechanical Engineeringy
E-mail: pawel.sokolowski@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Surface engineering
• Thermal spray and hardfacing processes
• Thermal Barrier Coatings

Assistant Professor at the Department of Metal Forming, Welding and Metrology, focused mostly on surface engineering and coatings. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, who continued education under Polish - French PhD studies supervised by the French Embassy in Poland. During PhD studies he has spent several months in various universities or laboratories in France, Germany, Sweden and Czech Republic. He has received a double PhD title in machine building and operation (by Wroclaw University of Science and Technology) and Engineering of Ceramic Materials (by University of Limoges). Pawel Sokolowski is a laureate of various prizes and scholarships, including the Outstanding Young Scientists Scholarship given by Ministry of Higher Education. He was  leading a PRELUDIUM grant (NCN) and now is a leader of two other projects, LIDER (NCBiR) and OPUS (NCN).  He is an author of tens of peer-reviewed publications, numerous presentations at international conferences (including plenary and invited talks) and patents proposals. In 2020 he was invited by Mindanao Staty University in Philippines as visiting professor for two-weeks lecture program on powder metallurgy.

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Scientific discipline: Physical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
E-mail: mateusz.szatkowski@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Structured light
• Interferometry and holography
• Singular optics

Mateusz Szatkowski is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Optics and Photonics, with whom he has been associated since the beginning of his bachelor's studies. He graduated in 2020 and his dissertation was distinguished by the Polish Physical Society. He received the Outstanding Young Scientists Scholarship in 2020. He was a visiting researcher at universities in Germany, Mexico, and the USA. In his research, he shapes the laser beam and examines its features. In particular, he is interested in phase singularities within the optical field.

Scientific discipline: Chemical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: adam.szukalski@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• nonlinear optics
• laser spectroscopy
• disordered photonics systems
• active 3D printed systems for electro-optical applications
• light amplification and modulation phenomena in soft matter and (bio)organic doped systems

Adam Szukalski, PhD in Technical Sciences (Nonlinear Optics and Materials Engineering), was a post-doc for two years in National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology, CNR-Instituto Nanoscienze, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. He was TOP10 - one of the 10 best graduates of the Faculty of Chemistry at WUST (2011/2012). He has been visiting young scientist during his PhD studies at the University of Angers - in CNRS MOLTECH Laboratory Anjou (France), University of Salento - Department of Mathematics and Physics “Ennio De Giorgi” (Italy), National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce (Italy), and has authored tens of papers in the peer-review international journals. His research activities include investigation of the optical and nonlinear optical properties of the light-emitting and photo-responsive low-molecular materials, organic crystals, polymer and bio-polymer composite systems or nanofibers. Then, also design, morphological, structural and spectroscopic characterization (including new 3D printing techniques) and development of the organic-based light emitting devices (organic lasers or random lasers) and optically-responsive materials (all-optical switches) including nanostructures for nanophotonic applications. He has been repeatedly a referee of the international peer-review journals in the field of materials science, such as Advanced Optical Materials (IF=10.05), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (IF=10.38), and many others. He has been awarded by Max Born prize given by President of Wroclaw city, and several times granted, by Polish National Science Center, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, or Foundation for Polish Science (for one of the best 100 scientists under 30 years old in the all fields of science in Poland) in 2017.
 

Scientific discipline: Automation, electronic, and electrical engineering
Unit: Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems
E-mail: piotr.szyszka@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• High-vacuum microsystems, including their design, simulation, fabrication and characterization
• MEMS techniques
• Mass spectrometry
• Filtering and trapping of ions

Assistant professor at the Department of Microsystems, Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems at the Wrocław University of Technology. During his doctorate, he was involved in the development of a series of MEMS ion sources, mainly for mass spectrometry. The current research work continues the topic of miniaturization of these analytical instruments. It focus on the development of the miniature mass spectrometers using MEMS techniques. These works were carried out as part of a project financed by the Polish NCBiR and Singaporean A*STAR (Chip-scale MEMS micro-spectrometer for monitoring industrial gases), and currently by the European Space Agency (MEMS-based mass spectrometry). As part of this project, an instrument dedicated to space missions with a maximum size of 1U (10x10x10 cm3) is to be developed.

Scientific discipline: Mathematics
Unit: Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics
E-mail: jakub.slezak@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• complex systems
• diffusion in physical and biological systems
• stochastic processes
• time series analysis

He obtained physics and mathematics degrees at WUST and in 2018 in cooperation with Potsdam University completed his PhD thesis about stochastic diffusion models. During his two postdocs at Bar Ilan University (Israel) and Humboldt University (Germany) he was investigating motions in heterogeneous environments.

He specializes in mathematical techniques used to describe and analyse random phenomena related to complex systems. These include, among others, diffusion of proteins in cytoplasm and on the cell surface, DNA displacements, dynamics in soft and porous media, motions of animals and microorganisms. In his research he combines theoretical studies with development of the data analysis tools.

Scientific discipline: Inżynieria środowiska, górnictwo i energetyka
Unit: Wydział Geoinżynierii, Górnictwa i Geologii
E-mail: jacek.wodecki@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• Signal processing
• Multidimensional analytics  
• Numerical methods

Assistant Professor in the Department of Mining. He has been associated with Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and data processing since the beginning of his studies. He graduated from the Department of Electronics. He defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled. , "Methods of multidimensional data processing for damage detection in mining machines" in 2019. In his scientific activity, he is engaged in the design of data analysis methods for non-invasive diagnostics of industrial machine components. He is particularly interested in the analysis of data having complex and heterogeneous structure, such as vibration or noise. He is the author of dozens of papers in scored international journals. He is also involved in projects related to other fields, e.g., inspection robotics, modeling, remaining useful life prediction. He is actively involved in national and international research projects related to technical diagnostics and data analytics, under initiatives such as SHENG (NCN, NSFC), EiT RawMaterials (EU), Horizon2020 (EU), Fast Track (NCBiR), among others, two of which he is currently leading.

Scientific discipline: Chemical Sciences
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: jan.zareba@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• non-linear-optical effects in coordination polymers, perovskites, and supramolecular networks
• non-linear optical pigments
• non-linear optical thermometry and manometry
• structural and supramolecular chemistry

Jan K. Zaręba defended his doctoral thesis, for which he received a distinction, in 2020 at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He is currently working as an adjunct professor at the Department of Engineering and Modelling of Advanced Materials. His research interests are in non-linear-optical pigments, i.e. microcrystalline solids that exhibit multiple non-linear effects. In particular, his research focuses on the use of coordination polymers, perovskites, and supramolecular networks for non-linear-optical temperature and pressure measurements and for switching the non-linear response.

Scientific discipline: Physical sciences
Unit: Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology
E-mail: szymon.zelewski@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• photothermal methods for investigations of emerging materials,
• optical spectroscopy of semiconductors,
• thermal properties of materials,
• development and automatisation of scientific instrumentation.

Dr. Szymon J. Zelewski obtained his PhD in physical sciences, specialising in semiconductor materials and low-dimensional structures with the use of the photoacoustic effect. From 2021-2023, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he focused on studying nonradiative recombination mechanisms in perovskite and organic semiconductors. Additionally, he developed experimental methods for determining their thermal properties. Currently, Dr. Zelewski works as an assistant professor in the Department of Experimental Physics at the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology. He is dedicated to exploring light-matter interaction through investigations of materials that are significant for developing modern technologies using photothermal techniques. For his achievements, he has been awarded the Outstanding Young Scientists Scholarship (Ministry of Education and Science) and the START scholarship (Foundation for Polish Science).

Scientific discipline: Material Science
Unit: Faculty of Chemistry
E-mail: andrzej.zak@pwr.edu.pl

Research interests:

• electron microscopy and electron-matter interaction,
• observation of light-induced processes,
• construction of research equipment.

He defended his PhD in 2019, and his work concerned single crystals with a magnetic shape memory effect. His favorite research activity, however, is the use of electron microscopy techniques in the study of biological materials and structures. He specializes in dynamic research in which a physicochemical experiment is carried out directly during electron observations, in a micrometric volume of the preparation.