Vice-Rector for Development
Professor Paweł Strumiłło Ph.D., D.Sc.
90-924 Lodz, Poland, 10/12 Ks. I. Skorupki Street
phone: +48 42 631 20 06, +48 42 631 20 05
fax +48 42 631 29 33
e-mail: vrector.innovations@adm.p.lodz.pl
Biographical note
Paweł Strumiłło graduated in 1983 from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, TUL (currently, the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering) with a Master of Science degree, with a specialization in electronic equipment. He completed his doctoral degree at the University of Strathclyde in Great Britain in 1993, where he was on the scholarship of the European Copernicus programme. He was awarded a post-doctoral degree (doktor habilitowany) in the discipline of electronics in 2003, while in 2013 he was awarded full professorship.
He has worked at Lodz University of Technology since 1983, holding the following positions: technician, research associate, assistant professor, and professor. In 2005-2015 he headed the Division of Medical Electronics, whereas from 2015 he has been the director of the Institute of Electronics. In September 2020 he was appointed vice-rector for development.
Professor Paweł Strumiłło has published over 90 research papers and three books on the analysis of biomedical signals and images, computational intelligence, and human-computer interaction systems. His research interests in recent years have focused on electronic support systems for people with sensory impairments. On this subject, in 2013, he organized the International Conference on Auditory Display, held in Poland for the first time. Currently he is the editor of special sections "Medical Applications of Sensor Systems and Devices" in the journal Sensors and "Bioelectronics" in the journal Electronics.
His work has been cited over 800 times (h-index of 17). He has supervised nine doctoral dissertations all which have been successfully defended. He has been the principal investigator of 8 research grants, and in recent years, in collaboration with his colleagues, he has developed award-winning systems for people with disabilities, including assistive technology for the blind, distinguished by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development in 2013 and implemented together with Orange Labs.
He was a member of the management committee of the Horizon 2020-funded project to develop assistive devices for the blind (2015-2017). He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the Scientific Society of Łódź. Currently he is involved in the European COST programme (CA 18110) and is on the Steering Committee.