Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz, an outstanding mechanical specialist, head of the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TUL was among this honourable group.
Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences are elected from among scientists who are distinguished by special scientific achievements and authority, and have an impeccable reputation. The Academy consists of national members (full and corresponding) and foreign members. Membership in the Polish Academy of Sciences is for life.
Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz is a full member of the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (4th Faculty). It represents the discipline - h-index mechanical engineering: 33 (Scopus).
From the beginning of his scientific career, he has been engaged at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Lodz University of Technology. In 1998, he founded the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics.
He was in charge of the EU programs TEMPRA, POLONIM, SOCRATES / ERASMUS and 17 research projects of the State Committee for Scientific Research and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and recently NCN grants - MAESTRO 2, OPUS 9, OPUS 14, OPUS 18. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Central Committee for Degrees and Titles (2 terms), and since 2019 - a member of the newly established Council of Scientific Excellence.
His scientific achievements include issues related to asymptotic methods for continuous and discrete systems and computer implementations using symbolic calculus, nonlinear dynamics of discrete continuous and discrete systems with friction and impacts, and taking into account thermoelasticity and tribology, as well as engineering biomechanics.
For his scientific achievements, he has been awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation award (twice). In 2006, he was awarded the first edition of the "Golden Lamp" award by the PGNiG SA Foundation under the name of I. Łukasiewicz, and in 2009 he received the Foundation for Polish Science award under the "Master" programme. In addition, he has been awarded, among others, the Gold Cross of Merit, the Medal of the National Education Commission, the Knight's Cross and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Prof. Jan Awrejcewicz is also an honorary doctor of the Częstochowa University of Technology (2013), University of Technology and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała (2013),
Kielce University of Technology (2019), National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (2019) and Gdańsk University of Technology (2019), Romanian Polytechnic University of Timisoara (2021).