Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design - RMT6 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 

Scientific field

Engineering and Technical Sciences

Scientific discipline

Mechanical engineering

Priority Research Area of the Silesian University of Technology

POB3 – Materials of the future

Scientific achievements:

• Development of a fatigue testing methodology for polymer-matrix composites, taking into account the self-heating effect and related mechanical, microstructural, and mechanochemical changes, and a new non-destructive testing technique based on this effect
• Improvement of non-destructive testing techniques through the development of original signal and image processing methods
• Development of materials for lightning and electromagnetic interference protection of aircraft components

Research interests

• fatigue and failure of composite materials
• non-destructive testing
• electrically conductive composites
• wavelet analysis
• fractal geometry

The course of a scientific career

• DSc (habilitation) – Machine Design and Operation, Silesian University of Technology – 2015
• PhD – Mechanics, Silesian University of Technology – 2012
• MSc – Mechanics and Machine Design, Silesian University of Technology – 2008
• BSc – Mechanics and Machine Design, Bialystok University of Technology – 2006

Membership in scientific associations:

• Polish Association of Technical Diagnostics (since 2015)
• Polish Society of Composite Materials (since 2012)
• European Society for Composite Materials (since 2010)

Membership in scientific journals:

• Journal of KONBiN (Air Force Institute of Technology, since 2024)
• Shock and Vibration (Hindawi, since 2021)
• Mechanics of Composite Materials (Springer, since 2021)
• Journal of Composites Sciences (MDPI, since 2020)
• Diagnostyka (Polish Association of Technical Diagnostics, since 2016)

Prizes and awards:

• Scientific award of the Division IV of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2025)
• Collective award of II degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2025)
• Bronze Cross of Merit (2024)
• Collective award of II degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2024)
• Individual award of II degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2023)
• Distinguished graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology (2023)
• Excellence award for the best scientific article by the Professional Organization in Modern Manufacturing Technologies, ModTech, Iasi, Romania (2023)
• Title of the Silver Engineer in the plebiscite of the Technical Review magazine (2023)
• Individual award of II degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2022)
• Bronze medal for long service (2021)
• Individual award of III degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2020)
• Collective award of III degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for organizational activities (2019)
• Collective award of II degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2018)
• Laureate of the “Popularizer of Science 2017” contest organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland and Polish Press Agency (2018)
• Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland for outstanding young scientists (2018)
• Scientific award of weekly magazine POLITYKA in the category Technical sciences (2017)
• Individual award of III degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2016)
• Collective award of III degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for teaching achievements (2016)
• Collective award of I degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for scientific achievements (2015)
• Third award in the popular scientific contest INTER by the Foundation for Polish Science (2015)
• Stipend of the FIAT concern for the best PhD thesis (2013)
• Stipend of the Foundation for Polish Science in the programme „START” for talented young researchers (2013)
• Collective award of I degree of the Rector of Silesian University of Technology for teaching activities (2012)
• Distinction of the Council of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology for the outstanding PhD thesis (2012)
• Stipend of the Foundation for Polish Science in the programme „START” for talented young researchers (2012)
• Distinction in a contest of the journal “Forum Akademickie” for popular-scientific paper “Complicated and simple. Young scientists on their own research” (2012)
• Distinction in a contest of the journal “Forum Akademickie” for popular-scientific paper “Complicated and simple. Young scientists on their own research” (2010)
• Stipend of the FIAT concern for the best MSc thesis (2009)
• Distinction of the Council of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology for the outstanding MSc thesis (2008)

Scientific and industrial internships:

• School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (2 internships – 1 month and 2 weeks – 2025)
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia (1 month – 2024)
• Research Institute in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France (1 month – 2021)
• Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal (6 months – 2020/2021)
• Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugalia (1 week – 2018)
• Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugalia (2 weeks – 2017)
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal (4 short-term visits – 2013/2014)
• Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (1 month – 2012)
• Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (3 weeks -2009)

Teaching activities:

• Mechanics Design and Maintenance of Aircraft Structures – lecture
• Non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring – lecture

Topics of bachelor’s / master’s theses supervised in the last five years:

• D-Sight image simulator of damaged aircraft components
• Automation of identification of cracks in aircraft components using the magneto-optical imaging method
• Assessment of corrosion detection in aircraft components based on numerical simulation of deformations
• Optimization of the design of the composite rim and its fatigue verification
• Modeling the electromechanical properties of conducting composites for lightning strike protection of aircraft structures
• Wavelet-based damage localization in structural elements based on shearographic testing
• Evaluation of influence of stabilizers material on dynamic properties of electrodynamic shaker
• Durability analysis of the Gliwice Radiostation transmission tower
• Analysis of damage increment in composite structures under multiple impact loading
• Analysis of non-destructive testing methods of composite aircraft elements

Topics of the supervised doctoral theses:

• Optimized self-heating based vibro-thermography non-destructive technique for inspection of polymer-matrix composite structures
• Bridge health monitoring using automated FE model updating, signal processing, and machine learning
• Nodal integration in radial basis function-based meshfree methods for static and dynamic analysis of arbitrary curved shells made of advanced materials
• Design of anti-icing/de-icing systems for aircraft applications using modern numerical simulation tools
• Thermomechanical fatigue life assessment of polymer-matrix composites under temperature control and different loading regimes
• Sensor integration, data fusion and information management for industrial monitoring systems

Organizational activities / other duties:

• Member of the Discipline Council of Mechanical Engineering in the Silesian University of Technology (2024-2027)
• Member of the Polish Young Academy, Polish Academy of Sciences (2022-2026), vice chair (since 2023)
• Member of the Committee of Mechanics, Polish Academy of Sciences (2024-2028)
• Member of the Council of Substantive Experts of the Science Popularization Center of the Silesian University of Technology (since 2017)