Prof Marcin Koniorczyk is a graduate of the Faculty of Construction at Silesian University of Technology. He started his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering of Lodz University of Technology, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 2005 and his habilitation degree in technical sciences in 2013. He also completed his studies in mathematics at the Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics at Lodz University of Technology, obtaining his PhD in 2017. He works in the Department of Building Materials, Physics and Sustainable Design.
Prof Koniorczyk's research interests focus on experimental and theoretical studies of mass and energy transport processes, in deformable porous media. The professor has developed computer programmes to analyse the durability of cement composites and ceramic products operated in corrosive environments. He has also co-authored a number of original test stands for measuring the rate of deterioration progress of porous building materials exposed to cyclic water freezing and salt crystallisation. Together with scientists from his home faculty and the Faculty of Chemistry of TUL, he developed a method for the disposal of medical waste in concrete
Publication output of Prof Marcin Koniorczyk includes over 110 scientific articles, including 37 in JCR journals. His works have been cited over 700 times, and the Hirsch index value is 12. He is the supervisor of three completed and two open doctoral theses. He has participated in and managed numerous research projects. He completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He has collaborated with researchers from the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, France and China. In 2022-23, he was invited as a visiting professor to the University of Nantes.
Prof Koniorczyk is a member of many national and international scientific organisations. For two terms he served as secretary of the Section of Building Physics, Committee on Civil Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the head of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering of Lodz University of Technology.
Privately, he enjoys cycling, swimming and mountain hiking.