Physical Sciences and Engineering
Composition of the Council for the Field of Science – Physical Sciences and Engineering (ST)
Prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Szumna – wrote her doctoral thesis on the synthesis and structure of supramolecular anion receptors under the supervision of Prof. Jurczak and defended it in 2001 with distinction. Between 2001-2003, she completed her post-doctoral internship at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA under the guidance of Professor J. Atwood. She was awarded habilitation in 2010 for a monothematic series of works entitled “Chiral Molecular Containers – Synthesis, Structure and Complexing Properties”. The work was distinguished with the Prime Minister’s Award and the Scientific Award of the W. Kołos Division III of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2012, she has been leading a research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2017, she was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Wilhelm Klemm Lectureship joint prize of the Polish and German Chemical Society (PTChem and GDCh). She was awarded an academic title of professor in 2019. Currently, she is Head of Team No. 9 at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Professor Szumna’s scientific interests focus on the synthesis of molecular capsules containing in their structure biocompatible components. She has also been working on the development of research related to the use of these capsules as nanocontainers, supramolecular catalysts, drug transporters, components of porous materials and as surface stabilisers of proteins. Her research group uses a wide range of methods related to organic synthesis, mechanochemistry, crystallography and magnetic resonance, and makes intensive use of chiraloptic methods and quantum-mechanical calculations. Prof. Szumna has led several grants funded by the State Committee for Scientific Research, the National Science Centre and the ITN grant under Horizon2020.
dr hab. Justyna Kozłowska – deputy chairwoman, a 2008 graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. (specialty: polymer chemistry). She received her PhD degree in chemistry from the same unit in 2014. She works in the Functional Polymer Materials Team. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska’s research interests are related to polymers and their practical use in the design of new materials for medicine and the cosmetic industry. She is a specialist in encapsulation techniques used for controlled release of active ingredients. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska’s scientific achievements include more than 50 publications and 2 patents, in turn, the results of her research were presented at many international and national conferences. She has led grants funded by NCN, and is a member of teams implementing projects funded by NCBiR and the Center for Academic Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska is one of the leaders of the Interdisciplinary Innovation in Personalized Medicine Team that is part of the University’s Center of Excellence in the research area “Towards Personalized Medicine”, whose activities focus on the search for new disease biomarkers, development of new therapeutic strategies and regenerative medicine. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska is also a partner in the academic company NatChemLab Ltd.
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Rutkowski – graduated in 1977 from the Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology (specialization: technical cybernetics systems). In the same year, as a scholarship holder at the Częstochowa University of Technology, he took up doctoral studies at the Institute of Cybernetics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Meanwhile, he was working on his doctoral thesis entitled “Non-parametric identification of non-stationary control objects”. In March 1980, he was awarded the degree of doctor of technical sciences by a resolution of the Council of the Institute of Technical Cybernetics. He was conferred the degree of doctor habilitated in technical sciences by the Council of the Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology in January 1986. The thesis dealt with the identification of non-stationary systems and classification of images characterized by time-varying probability densities. He was awarded the title of professor in November 1995 at the request of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow. Prof. dr hab. inż. Leszek Rutkowski is the author and co-author of about 200 publications, more than 30 of which have been published in highly prestigious IEEE journals. These publications have been quoted many times in world literature (according to Web of Science H = 41). In November 2004 he was elected by the IEEE Board of Directors as IEEE Fellow (one of the world’s most respected scientific awards) for “contributions to neurocomputing and flexible fuzzy systems”. In 2004, he was elected a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in 2016 a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a laureate of many international and national awards, competitions organized by the National Science Centre and the Foundation for Polish Science (e.g. “MISTRZ” and “TEAM”), he is also Doctor honoris causa awarded by AGH UST in Cracow (2014).
Dr hab. Agnieszka Janiuk, prof. CFT PAN – a graduate of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw (diploma in the Department of Astronomy in 1998). She was awarded the degree of doctor of physical sciences in astronomy from the Doctoral College, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (diploma with honours, 2003). She has completed several scientific fellowships, among others in Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Triest, in Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the USA, in Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Munich, in Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India, and post-doctoral contract at the Faculty of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the USA. She was awarded the degree of doctor habilitated in physical sciences in astronomy by the Scientific Council of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in April 2011 for the thesis entitled “Structure and variability of the central engine responsible for the gamma-ray phenomenon”. The procedure for the award to Dr hab. A. Janiuk of the academic title of professor was initiated by the Scientific Council of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2019. Agnieszka Janiuk has been working in the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since October 2010; first in the position of an assistant professor and since autumn 2011 in the position of a professor. Between 2011 and 2015, she was the Deputy Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences for Scientific and General Affairs. She has been running her own astrophysics research group in the Center since 2011. To date, 5 doctoral students and 3 postdoctoral interns have worked in the group, 1 master’s thesis has been written, and there have been numerous scientific internships in which students of senior years of degree programmes in physics and astronomy have taken part. In her work Prof. Janiuk focuses on astrophysics of accretion disks in binary systems with stars, construction of active galactic nuclei and quasarsars, as well as the origin of gamma flares and nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in these objects. Her latest works concern the modelling of the collapse of massive stars, the formation of black holes, and electromagnetic signals accompanying compact star collisions which are the sources of gravity waves. She is the author of over 120 publications in the field of astrophysics and has managed several grants from the State Committee for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Science and the National Science Centre. A. Janiuk is a member of the Polish Astronomical Society (between 2009-2011 she was the member of the Board of the Polish Astronomical Society), the European Astronomical Society (she has been participating in the works of the Sustainability Working Group since 2020), and the International Astronomical Union participating in the activities of Commission B1 (Computational Astrophysics). In 2015 and 2019 she became twice a member of the Committee on Astronomy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Furthermore, she participates in the works of the National Council of Particle Astrophysics.
prof. dr hab Jerzy Nawrocki – graduate of the Faculty of Geology at the University of Warsaw – geologist and geophysicist. He completed his individual studies at this university in stratigraphic-exploration geology and geological geophysics in 1984. Since 1985, he has worked at the National Geological Institute – PIB, where he defended his doctoral thesis in 1994. Since 2016, he has also been a lecturer at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. His postdoctoral degree was conferred on him by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004. At the request of the same Council, he was awarded the title of professor in March 2011. Prof. Dr. Jerzy Nawrocki’s scientific achievements include works in the fields of paleomagnetism, environmental magnetometry, isotope stratigraphy, climate change reconstruction, raw material geology and geothermal geology. Outside Poland, he has conducted research in Antarctica, Ukraine, Spitsbergen, and Mexico, among other places. He has held research internships at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and at the Center for Earth Research (GFZ) in Potsdam. He is the scientific editor of the monograph “Geological Atlas of Poland” (State Geological Institute -PIB), published in 2017. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Geological Quarterly. From 2006 to 2007, Deputy Director of the State Geological Institute for Scientific Affairs, and from 2008 to 2014, Director of the Institute. Member of the Polar Research Committee at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Lisowska – is the director of the Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz and the head of the Department of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology of the University of Lodz. In the years 2008-2016 she was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz, currently she is a member of the Senate of the University of Lodz. Specialist in the field of microbial biotechnology. Scientific interests of prof. Katarzyna Lisowska focus on the processes of microbiological detoxification and degradation of xenobiotics that are particularly dangerous for the environment, including endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Her work also includes research on the biological activity of nanomaterials and the microbiological synthesis of nanoparticles. She was the manager and contractor of many scientific projects financed through domestic and foreign competitions, carried out in scientific cooperation with the Euromed University in Fez, Morocco, CNRS in Toulouse, France, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany, Medical University of Lodz, Institute of Biology of the Medical Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Technical Committee for Soil Chemistry of the Polish Committee for Standardization. She was also the vice-president of the Lodz Branch of the Polish Society of Microbiologists.
Composition of the Council in the years 01.2020-12.2022 (ST)