Systems and materials from nano- to macro-scale: molecular engineering, nanomaterials, metamaterials, microsystems, lasers, biosensors, implants, electronics/textronics, intelligent building materials
Scientific discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Professor Jan Awrejcewicz (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 147; international cooperation: 49.7%; h-index: 25).
In 1994, he received the title of professor. In 1998, he founded the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics. He has managed EU programs TEMPRA, POLONIM, SOCRATES/ERASMUS and 17 research projects of the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW), and more recently, grants from the National Science Centre (NCN) grants - MAESTRO, OPUS, OPUS .
Since 2013, he has served on the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles (2 terms), and since 2019 - on the newly established Council of Scientific Excellence.
His scientific achievements focus on asymptotic methods for continuous and discrete systems, computer implementations using symbolic calculus, nonlinear dynamics of discrete continuous and discrete systems with friction and impacts, taking into account thermoelasticity and tribology, as well as biomechanics engineering.
For his scientific achievements, he was honored with the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award. In 2006, he was the laureate of the first edition of the Golden Lamp Award awarded by the PGNiG Foundation, and he received the award of the Foundation for Polish Science under the "Master" program in 2009.
He has been awarded the Golden Cross of Merit, Medal of National Education Commission, Knight's Cross and Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, among others. He is also a doctor honoris causa of the Częstochowa University of Technology (2014), the Academy of Technology and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała (2014), Kielce University of Technology (2019), National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (2019), and Gdańsk University of Technology (2019).
He is a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Scientific discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Professor Tomasz Kapitaniak (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 81; FWCI: 4.04; international cooperation: 75.3%; h-index: 35; publications in Top 10 Citation percentile: 40%) is a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics and has been head of the Division of Dynamics at Lodz University of Technology since 1992.
He was invited to deliver more than 100 plenary/symposia lectures and over 250 seminars and other talks worldwide.
He is a member of editorial boards of several journals and honorary editor of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.
He has published 270 research papers in renowned journals from the Clarivate Analytics list, which have been cited over 4500 times.
His research is concentrated on nonlinear dynamics. Among his most important scientific discoveries are: the development of non-feedback methods for chaos control, identification and description of new types of bifurcations, identification of the synchronization mechanism in coupled mechanical oscillators and explanation of the origin of randomness in mechanical systems.
In 2013, he was elected member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was conferred the honorary degree of doctor honoris causa by the Saratov State University (Russia) and Lublin University of Technology (Poland) in 2001 and 2014, respectively.
Scientific discipline: Materials Engineering
Professor Izabella Krucińska (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 60) has created a scientific school carrying out research on textile health products for medical applications.
The technologies she has developed have been used in the production of textronic systems to monitor the well-being of workers.
She has developed a set of technologies of biodegradable textile materials for dressings and implants.
She has created unique in Poland laboratory benches for assessing the utility and comfort of functional products.
These benches are part of the accredited laboratory “Lab-Tex”.
The laboratory has completed many research projects commissioned by the Polish textile industry.
Her scientific achievements include 515 publications and 39 patents.
Scientific discipline: Mechanical Engineering
Professor Przemysław Perlikowski (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 41; FWCI: 1.6; international cooperation: 58.5%; h-index: 19) graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2005.
In 2019, he received the title of Professor of Technical Sciences. The main area of his research is nonlinear dynamics.
Together with collaborators, he has developed a hybrid model of church bell, novel types of tuned mass dampers, and has described new phenomena in coupled systems. In 2016, he was elected member of the Polish Young Academy of the Polish Academy of Science and became the member of the Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Science.
He has co-authored 70 articles in JCR journals and his publications have been cited 957 times.
Professor Perlikowski has been collaborating with many leading scientific groups and he has held two post-docs in Humboldt University of Berlin and the National University of Singapore.
Scientific discipline: Chemical Sciences
Professor Piotr Ulański (international cooperation: 33.3%; h-index: 24) his scientific interests are: mechanism and kinetics of fast reactions initiated by ionizing radiation in polymer systems, polymerization and cross-linking, synthesis and properties of polymeric nanogels, sonochemistry of polymers, pulse radiolysis, new experimental methods for studying reaction mechanisms, nano- and bio-materials (mainly hydrogels) for medicine.
He has co-authored 87 articles and has been granted 11 patents. He is a co-author of 4 popular science films scripts for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is has been a manager and contractor of national and international research projects (5-7 FP, Horizon 2020, Eureka!, IAEA), including NATO grant with the Massachusetts University of Technology.
He is the Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, and expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency; on its behalf, he has conducted technical missions in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
He has lectured at the Universities of Reims (France), Wrexham (United Kingdom), Puna (India), Bangkok (Thailand) and Quito (Ecuador) and hasreviewed over 250 papers for international scientific journals.
He is the editor-in-chief of Radiation Physics and Chemistry (Elsevier, IF 1.984).