The Distinguished for development
The topics dealt with by the award-winning scientists are not easy to understand, but they certainly fit in with the trends setting the development of the economy. These achievements are recognised by the Polish Intelligent Development Award. In this year's edition it was awarded to two professors of Lodz University of Technology. Two others were awarded the Distinguished Service to Intelligent Development award.
In the category of scientists of the future, the award went to: dr hab. inż. Agnieszka Ruppert for her project on the conversion of biomass to industrially important compounds and dr hab. inż. Marcin Kozanecki for carrying out projects related to polymer hydrogels and Raman resonance in water.
Moreover, this year for the first time the jubilee Award of Merit for Intelligent Development was awarded, the winners of which were selected from those who had received the Polish Intelligent Development Award in 2016-2019.
From Lodz University of Technology the jubilee distinction was awarded to: Prof. Beata Kolesińska, among others for works in the field of design and synthesis of biologically active peptides and their implementation in medicine and dr inż. Katarzyna Znajdek for research and development activities in the field of sustainable energy and innovative technologies and industrial processes.
Award in the Ministry of National Defence competition
Degree dissertation thesis of mgr inż. Mateusz Wojtunik "Development and Validation of a Mathematical Model of Satellite Manipulator Joint" took first place in the Competition of the Minister of National Defence in the category of the best thesis in the field of space and satellite technology, techniques and engineering having potential application in the area of national defence or security.
The supervisor was dr hab. inż. Grzegorz Granosik, professpr of Lodz University Of Technology from the Institute of Automatic Control, and an additional tutor dr hab. Karol Seweryn, Professor of the Institute at the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Mateusz Wojtunik is a graduate of the first course of aerospace engineering, after which he went on to study automation and robotics at the Faculty of of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering.