Intelligent and secure infrastructure: friendly, supportive environment and services, cyber-physical systems, wireless technologies (5G), sensor networks (IoT), cyber security, Industry 4.0
Scientific discipline: Transport and Civil Engineering
Professor Dariusz Gawin (International cooperation: 54.6%; h-index: 24) is the head of Department of Building Physics and Building Materials at Lodz University of Technology.
The main fields of his scientific interest are mechanics of porous materials and building physics.
His research concerns in particular problems of building materials durability, energy efficiency and sustainability of buildings, and numerical modelling of chemo-physical degradation processes in building materials.
He has published 435+ journal and conference papers, which have been cited 2080+ times.
He is an ordinary member of the Committee of Civil Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and head of the Building Physics Section.
Scientific discipline: Telecommunication and Computer Science
Professor Andrzej Materka (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 34; h-index: 14; International cooperation: 27%) obtained a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Lodz Technical University and Habilitation at Wrocław Technical University, Poland.
He was a Monbusho Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Shizuoka University, Japan, and was employed as a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Australia.
His main research achievements are in large-signal modelling of microwave MESFET transistors, quantitative texture analysis of magnetic resonance medical images, and brain-computer interfaces.
He has co-authored 200 scientific papers and 6 monographs. In the years 2004-2008, he was the vice-president of the COST B21 program "Physiological modelling of MR image formation” and chairman of the "Software, Simulation and Modelling" working group.
He is a co-founder of the European Campus Card Association.
In 2004-2006, he was the vice-president and in 2009-2011, the president of this organization.
He is a member of the Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Polish Academy of Sciences, of the editorial committee of Machine Graphics and Vision, and of IEEE in the rank of "Senior Member."
In 2016, he was elected member of the Central Committee for Degrees and Titles for the 2017-2020 term.
Scientific discipline: Control, Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Professor Andrzej Napieralski (no. of publications in 2013-2017: 157; h-index: 16) served as a visiting professor in INSA’T and CNRS-LAAS, France.
He has been involved in 10 European research projects as well as in NATO and 8 TEMPUS projects.
He has also taken part in 59 KBN, NCN, and NCBR research projects. In years 2000- 2009, he served as the Chair of IEEE Poland Electron Devices Chapter.
In 2012, he was elected Chairman of the Commission of Electronics and Photonics of URSI and was nominated to serve as the Vice-Chair EDS of Region 8 SRC.
He has served on numerous scientific committees of national and international conferences. He has been awarded over 100 prizes at various world innovation exhibitions.
In 2009, he received the Grand Prix of Innova Award at Brussels Eureka Competition.
In 2008, he the honorary degree of doctor honoris causa was conferred upon him by Yaroslaw the Wise Novgorod State University (Russia).
Scientific discipline: Physical Sciences
Professor Katarzyna Pernal (FWCI: 1.61; International cooperation: 35%; h-index: 26; publications in Top 10 Citation percentile: 23.5%) is a graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology.
In 2002, she obtained a PhD from the Florida State University, USA. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2005-2007), Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme Dresden, and the University of Delaware USA (2008).
Since 2008, she has been employed at the Institute of Physics at TUL, where she has lead the Quantum Chemistry Group.
She works in the field of quantum and computational chemistry, specializing in the density and density matrix functional theory.
In 2015, she was awarded the Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science (IAQMS). She is an editorial board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (Wiley).
Scientific discipline: Telecommunication and Computer Science
Professor Paweł Strumiłło (FWCI: 1.24; no. of publications in 2013-2017: 27; h-index: 15) received his PhD degree in electrical sciences from the University of Strathclyde, UK.
Currently, is the head of the Institute of Electronics and holds the position of full professor at TUL.
He has published more than 200 scientific papers and three books on signal and image analysis, computational intelligence and human-computer interaction systems.
In recent years, with his co-workers, he has developed award winning assistive technologies for the disabled, e.g. an electronic travel aid awarded by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development in 2013, commercialized with Orange Labs.
He was a member of the steering committee of the HORIZON 2020 project on aiding the visually impaired (2015-2017).
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is engaged in the COST Action (CA 18110), and serves on the Management Committee.