Professor Paweł Wawrzyniak graduated from the Institute of Chemical Engineering at Lodz University of Technology (1983). He received his doctoral degree in 1999 and his postdoctoral degree in 2017, both from Lodz University of Technology. He joined Lodz University of Technology as an employee in 1983, first at the Department of Thermal and Diffusion Processes, and after the restructuring of 2013, he has been working at the Department of Environmental Engineering, the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering. In 2019, he was appointed professor of the university. In 1991-1993, he held a fellowship at Kyoto University, Japan.
Prof. Paweł Wawrzyniak's research interests lie in the broad area of heat and mass transfer phenomena, in particular, the study and modeling of drying processes. In fact, his key research contributions concern drying processes of dispersed materials. His studies focus on processes carried out under supercritical carbon dioxide conditions, agglomeration in spray drying, intensification of mass transfer processes, design of heat exchangers operating under extreme conditions.
Professor Paweł Wawrzyniak has authored or co-authored 61 research papers, including 32 indexed in the WoS CC database and 36 in the Scopus database, 4 chapters in monographs in English, as well as 80 papers published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He has completed 19 research projects and served as a leader in 10, of which 3 were international, research projects. He is a co-author of 3 patent applications. He participated in the 28 implementations of industrial-scale drying systems. He has successfully promoted 3 doctoral candidates, and is currently supervising further 3 doctoral theses.
The professor has also been elected for functions in international scientific organizations. Since 2023, he has been Poland's representative to the Working Party on Drying of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering, whereas since 2021, he has been a member of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer
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