Academia Europaea, founded on the initiative of the Royal Society in Great Britain, the world's oldest scientific society, and the Swedish Academy of Sciences, invites scientists of outstanding merit to join its ranks. It is an elite society whose membership is by invitation only and is reviewed by carefully selected scientists. Academia Europaea currently has over 4,500 members from around the world, including many Nobel Prize winners.
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Prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak heads the Department of Dynamics at Lodz University of Technology. He received his postdoctoral degree (habilitation) at the age of 29 and the title of professor when he was 36. He is a world-renowned scientist, often invited to give plenary lectures. He has published 311 scientific articles in renowned journals, cited more than 6 000 times. He enjoys international authority in the field of so-called deterministic chaos and control of irregular motions. In 2013 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary doctorates at Saratov State University (Russia) and Lublin University of Technology (Poland). He is an honorary professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and privately an eminent expert in the history of this country. He relaxes by painting pictures and playing chess.