Professor Jan Awrejcewicz is the Head of the Deaprtment of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Lodz University of Technology. In over 40 years of scientific activity, training of scientific and academic staff and organisational activity, which translates into the development of culture, economy and society in the international and national dimension, he has achieved outstanding results.
Professor Awrejcewicz is the author or co-author of 383 papers published in journals with an impact factor (IF), 123 papers published in other journals, 361 peer-reviewed papers published in foreign (293) and domestic conference proceedings (68), and the total impact factor (ΣIF) of these papers is 493.522. Moreover, he is the author or co-author of 27 monographs in English.
Professor has conducted research abroad for many years, which constitutes a total of about 10 years, including:
- the United States at Berkeley, at the University of California and the University of Illinois under the Fulbright and Tadeusz Kościuszko Foundations,
-Germany in Brunswick under the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
- Japan at the University of Tokyo under the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Science and Technology Research Center (honorary professor Mitsubishi)
and in France in Lyon under several different foundations.
The Alexander von Humboldt Award for research and teaching achievements Among the greatest and most prestigious foreign awards granted to the Professor. He is the supervisor of 27 doctoral theses. He participates in the work of many prestigious committees and scientific societies, including as a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Central Commission for Titles and Degrees, and now in the Council for Scientific Excellence. He has received honorary doctorates from 6 universities.
His activities have been honoured with high national awards: Golden Cross of Merit (1996); Medal of the Ministry of Education (1998); Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2001); Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2012). Professor's name was listed in "Stanford University Names World's Top 2% Scientists".
Professor Jacek Banasiak from the Institute of Mathematics at the Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics of Lodz University of Technology, received the award for significant achievements in scientific activities together with Wilson Lamb (University of Strathclyde) and Philippe Laurençot (Université de Toulouse). The award was based on the fundamental results obtained by the authors in fragmentation and coagulation theory, presented in the two-volume monograph Analytic Methods for Coagulation-Fragmentation Models, CRC Press (Taylor &Francis Group), 2020 and in a number of articles published in leading international journals.
Professor Banasiak's main area of scientific interest is the theory of differential equations. For many years he has been among the world's leading specialists in this field. He received his PhD degree in mathematics in 1989 at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. In 1992 he moved to South Africa, taking up a post at the University of Natal in Durban. In 1999 he was awarded a postdoctoral degree at the University of Warsaw. Currently, he works as a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of Lodz University of Technology and at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Mathematics is not the only passion of Professor Jacek Banasiak. He likes to escape to the mountains from time to time. He has climbed the main ridge of the Tatra Mountains and conquered the highest peaks of Africa, among others: Mount Stanley in the Ruwenzori massif and Kilimanjaro.
In my professional passion - mathematics, I am attracted to solving relatively clear intellectual problems on my own terms. I work quite slowly, at my own rhythm. I do not like racing and competition. It is similar with mountains, I do not run from the start to the finish to win, but I go and stop as I feel like it - said Prof. Banasiak in an interview about his passion.
During the Polish Science Day online gala scientists and researchers were awarded for their merits in five categories: significant achievements in research, teaching, implementation, organisational and overall achievements. The Minister of Education and Science, Przemysław Czarnek, granted 103 awards, including 86 individual and 17 team awards.