Circular bioeconomy: biotechnology, food technology and food safety, structural biology, environmental monitoring and waste disposal, renewable energy sources, clean technologies.
Scientific discipline: Chemical Engineering
Dr hab. Piotr Dziugan (percentage of international cooperation: 53.9%).
His scientific interests focus on the production of beverages, bread and biomass processing in biological, chemical and thermal processes.
He has been a manager of 5 research and development grants from the State Committee for Scientific Research and National Centre for Research and Development funds for the amount of PLN 10 million.
He has participated as a contractor in 3 other State Committee for Scientific Research grants, 2 European grants - TEMPUS and INCO-COPERNICUS, and three Chinese government grants.
Currently, he is conducting 3 original research and development grants for the amount of PLN 50 million, in which he acts as the manager and the manager of the consortium of the strategic NCBiR BIOSTRATEG project worth PLN 30 million.
He has been cooperating with PKN Orlen and KSC SA as well as a number of small and medium enterprises which has resulted in the implementation of11 projects.
He has won 6 gold medals at international invention exhibitions in Poland, Romania, South Korea and Canada.
He has obtained 8 patents and has applied for 8 new patents for his innovations, including one in the European procedure.
He has transferred the results of his doctoral thesis to a start-up company financed from the funds of INCOM Foundation for Polish Science. He has participated in the development and construction of an innovative pulp drying plant in the Werbkowice sugar factory, which is the second in Europe low-temperature biomass dryer based on waste heat with a drying surface of 2x275m2 and the implementation value of PNL 27 million.
Scientific discipline: Chemical Engineering
Professor Andrzej Górak (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 80; international cooperation: 56%; h-index: 33) obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Process Engineering of Lodz Technical University (Poland) and completed his habilitation at the Warsaw Technical University and RWTH Aachen, Germany.
He was researcher at Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf, then professor at Technical University in Essen and Dortmund, Germany.
His scientific activities focus on computer-aided simulation and experimental validation of integrated reaction and separation processes like reactive distillation and reactive absorption as well as on the analysis of hybrid separation processes and the purification of biotechnological products.
Professor Górak is a co-editor of the journal "Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification“. He has initiated and coordinated several projects in European Framework Programmes FP5, FP6 and FP. He is a co-author of nearly 300 scientific papers, 15 patents and 7 book chapters.
He has been awarded the Cross of Merit of Germany and Poland. He has supervised 30 PhD dissertations. He is a member of European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Working Party on Fluid Separations and Process Intensification.
He has been the vice rector for science of Dortmund University of Technology and a member of the Council of the National Science Centre (NCN).
He has served as a reviewer for prestigious scientific journals (AIChE Journal, Chem.Ing.Tech., Chem.Eng.Proc, Chem.Eng.Res, Inż.Chem.Proc., Chem.Eng.Sci., Comp.Chem.Eng.) and scientific organisations (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Ministry of Science and Technology, Dutch Science Fund, National Science Foundation (USA), ESFC (UK), Deutsche Bundestiftung Umwelt, European Union, NATO, Israel Science Foundation).
Scientific discipline: Chemical Engineering
Professor Beata Gutarowska (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 59; h-index: 15).
She is the director of the Institute of Fermentation Technology and Microbiology at TUL, Council Member of the Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society, Chairman of the Polish Society of Microbiologist, Member of Polish Academy of Science.
Her research concentrates on environmental microbiology; biodeterioration and disinfection of technical materials, including historical objects; mycotoxins, allergens, organic acids and enzymes produced by moulds; biopreparations for agricultural and environmental applications.
She has conducted 12 research projects funded by international and Polish institutions.
She is a co-author of 12 national patents and has won 3 medals awarded at international innovation fairs.
Professor Gutarowska has organized 11 international conferences related to biodeterioration of technical materials.
Scientific discipline: Chemical Engineering
Professor Stanisław Ledakowicz (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 47; FWCI: 1.33;
h-index: 29; publications in Top 10 Citation percentile: 23.4%).
He became a professor of chemical technology and biotechnology at TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany in 1993.
Since 1994, he has been a professor at Lodz University of Technology (TUL), being the head of the Department of Bioprocess Engineering since 1995. He is a member of Editorial Boards of 4 scientific journals.
The fields of his scientific interests are: chemical, biochemical engineering, environmental and industrial biotechnology.
He has published over 700 publications, including 260 original papers in JCR journals, has contributed to 30 monographs and holds 16 patents, has participated in 4 industrial implementations.
As an academic teacher, he has supervised 24 PhD students and their dissertations, 4 of whom went onto become university professors.
In recent years, he is one of the most highly cited researcher at TUL.
Scientific discipline: Chemical Engineering
Professor Ireneusz Zbiciński (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 26; h-index: 16).
He is a full professor at TUL.
He completed scientific and industrial training at: Chemical Plants „Anilana” Lodz, Poland, International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer, Minsk, Belorussia, Electricity Research and Development Centre, Capenhurst, U.K., University of Birmingham, U.K., Washington State University, Pullman, USA. He is the holder of Qilu Frendship Award granted by Government of Shendong Province, China, Award for the “Excelence in Drying Research” 2010.
He has taken part in more than 24 international and domestic scientific projects e.g. for Procter&Gamble, Cabbot, IFPRI, Henkel, Anwil, Chemat etc.
He has taught at universities and industrial labs in USA, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Japan, China, Brazil, etc.
He has been a member of a number of steering committees: EU INTERREG IIIB project Watersketch (2004-2007) and Waterpraxis (2008-2011), GPEE (2012-2015), INREP (2014-2017), INVITES (2016-2018), MONSUL-Norwegian Funds (2014-2016), and Horizon 2020 projects: INREP (2015-2018) and HIPERION (2019-2023).
He has been a member of the Baltic University Programme Board (Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2004), member of the Committee of Chemical Engineering of PAN (since 2007); Working Party of Drying in a frame of EFChE (since 2006).
He has supervised 15 PhD students.