Authorities

Col. Prof. Prze­mysław Wachu­lak is a pro­fes­sor of sci­ences and rec­tor-com­man­dant of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy. His works on the devel­op­ment of new laser-plas­ma sources and their appli­ca­tions in nanoscience and nan­otech­nol­o­gy. He is a mem­ber of nation­al and inter­na­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic soci­eties. For his works, he obtained sev­er­al nation­al and inter­na­tion­al schol­ar­ships and awards.

A grad­u­ate of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, which he grad­u­at­ed with 1^st place in 2004 at the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics, in the field of elec­tron­ics and opto­elec­tron­ics. He also com­plet­ed post­grad­u­ate stud­ies at the Fac­ul­ty of Cyber­net­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy in the field of Euro­pean inte­gra­tion and inter­na­tion­al secu­ri­ty. He start­ed his pro­fes­sion­al mil­i­tary ser­vice in 2004 in the 3^rd  Road and Bridge Reg­i­ment in Chełm­no as a pla­toon com­man­der. In 2005 – 2008 he was a Ph.D. stu­dent at the Col­orado State Uni­ver­si­ty in the Unit­ed States, where­in 2008 he obtained a doc­tor­al degree. In 2009, he began his mil­i­tary ser­vice at the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy at the Insti­tute of Opto­elec­tron­ics as a senior engi­neer, assis­tant, assis­tant pro­fes­sor, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, and pro­fes­sor. In 2013, he obtained his habil­i­ta­tion degree at the Fac­ul­ty of Physics of the Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw. On 30^th of July, 2018, the Pres­i­dent of the Repub­lic of Poland award­ed him the title of pro­fes­sor of tech­ni­cal sci­ences.

He is an author and co-author of 1 book, 11 chap­ters in mono­graphs, 114 JCR pub­li­ca­tions, 120 arti­cles from oth­er peer-reviewed jour­nals, and over 330 con­fer­ence abstracts. His work focus­es on the devel­op­ment of new laser-plas­ma sources for the gen­er­a­tion of extreme ultra­vi­o­let and soft X‑ray radi­a­tion for appli­ca­tions in nanoimag­ing, holog­ra­phy, absorp­tion spec­troscopy, opti­cal coher­ence tomog­ra­phy, or radio­bi­ol­o­gy. He has par­tic­i­pat­ed in many nation­al and inter­na­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic con­fer­ences, includ­ing over 30 invit­ed lec­tures and pre­sen­ta­tions. He is a mem­ber of nation­al and inter­na­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic soci­eties, incl. Pol­ish Young Acad­e­my of the Pol­ish Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the Com­mit­tee of Metrol­o­gy and Sci­en­tif­ic Appa­ra­tus of the Pol­ish Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the Com­mit­tee of Elec­tron­ics and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions of the Pol­ish Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety ACS, the Pol­ish Soci­ety of Syn­chro­tron Radi­a­tion PTPS. He is also a top­i­cal edi­tor of the Applied Optics jour­nal from 2017. Dur­ing his aca­d­e­m­ic career, he was a prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tor in 7 projects, incl. financed by the Nation­al Sci­ence Cen­ter and the Nation­al Cen­ter for Research and Devel­op­ment (LIDER pro­gram). He also par­tic­i­pat­ed in 17 oth­er domes­tic, for­eign, and inter­na­tion­al projects. He obtained a schol­ar­ship from the Foun­da­tion for Pol­ish Sci­ence (2009 – 2011) and the Min­istry of Sci­ence and High­er Edu­ca­tion (2011 – 2014). Win­ner of many awards. For sci­en­tif­ic and mil­i­tary activ­i­ties he received the R&D 100 award (the USA, 2008), Young Sci­en­tist Medal (2014), Sil­ver Medal for Mer­it for Nation­al Defense (2014), Medal for Mer­it of the Repub­lic of Poland, 3^rd  class (2018), Sil­ver Medal of the Armed Forces in the Home­land Ser­vice (2018) and the award of the Min­is­ter of Nation­al Defense (2013 and 2019).

Colonel Grze­gorz Kali­ci­ak grad­u­at­ed from the Gen­er­al Tadeusz Koś­ciuszko Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Land Forces in Wrocław (MULF) and also com­plet­ed polit­i­cal since and cri­sis man­age­ment stud­ies. He start­ed his mil­i­tary ser­vice in 4^th Recon­nais­sance Bat­tal­ion in Wędrzyn. Dur­ing his mil­i­tary ser­vice he par­tic­i­pat­ed in inter­na­tion­al mil­i­tary missions.Col. Kali­ci­ak served in the Pol­ish Mil­i­tary Con­tin­gent in Iraq: in 2004 (II rota­tion) as a Recon­nais­sance Com­pa­ny Com­man­der, in 2007 (VIII rota­tion) as the TOC Chief.  At the begin­ning of April 2004, as the Recon­nais­sance Com­pa­ny Com­man­der, he led the defence of the City Hall in Kar­bala, Iraq, dur­ing the II Per­sian Gulf War. He also served in the Pol­ish Mil­i­tary Con­tin­gent in Afghanistan: dur­ing VII rota­tion and IX rota­tion in 2011 as the BRAVO Com­bat Team Deputy Com­man­der. Mil­i­tary vet­er­an – injured in an IED explo­sion in Afghanistan.Awarded by the Pres­i­dent of the Repub­lic of Poland with Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Mil­i­tary Cross for his per­son­al brav­ery in the com­bat action.

He is a grad­u­ate of the Cyber­net­ics Fac­ul­ty of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy. He holds a post­doc­tor­al degree in the field of com­put­er sci­ence and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions. He is a researcher and didac­tic teacher at the Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems of the  Fac­ul­ty of Cyber­net­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy. He was the dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Cyber­net­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy (2016 – 2020 term of office). He is a mem­ber of the Pol­ish Accred­i­ta­tion Com­mit­tee (2020 – 2024 term of office) and a mem­ber of the IT Com­mit­tee of the Pol­ish Acad­e­my of Sci­ences (2020 – 2024 term of office). He par­tic­i­pat­ed in the imple­men­ta­tion of 15 research and devel­op­ment projects, includ­ing grants financed by the Nation­al Cen­ter for Research and Devel­op­ment. He is the author or co-author of about 150 sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tions in the field of com­put­er sci­ence and math­e­mat­ics. He con­ducts sci­en­tif­ic and research activ­i­ty in the field of meth­ods of assess­ing and shap­ing the soft­ware reli­a­bil­i­ty, com­put­er aid­ed soft­ware devel­op­ment and the use of oper­a­tional research meth­ods to mod­el select­ed phe­nom­e­na and process­es.

A grad­u­ate of the Radio Tech­ni­cal Col­lege in Dzierżoniów (1985) and the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy (1990). After a year of com­mand prac­tice in the 8th Fight­er-Bomber Reg­i­ment in Mirosław­iec, he began his teach­ing activ­i­ty as a research and teach­ing assis­tant. In 2001, he earned his doc­tor­al degree at the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy in the dis­ci­pline of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, spe­cial­iz­ing in microwave tech­nol­o­gy, and was appoint­ed assis­tant pro­fes­sor. Since mov­ing to the reserve in 2003, he has con­tin­ued to work as a civil­ian aca­d­e­m­ic teacher and con­ducts research in dig­i­tal sig­nal pro­cess­ing, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, med­ical diag­nos­tics and bio­met­rics.

In 2010, at the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, he obtained a habil­i­ta­tion in the field of elec­tron­ics, spe­cial­iza­tion in dig­i­tal pro­cess­ing of bio­med­ical sig­nals. In 2017, by the deci­sion of the Pres­i­dent of the Repub­lic of Poland, he received pro­fes­sor degree in the field of tech­ni­cal sci­ences. He has con­duct­ed over 8,000 hours of teach­ing and pro­mot­ed 4 doc­tors. He is the author and co-author of over 200 pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing nation­wide text­books on com­put­er analy­sis of elec­tron­ic cir­cuits (2004), ampli­fiers (2005), basics of elec­tron­ics (2013) and sig­nal pro­cess­ing (2018). In the term of 2012 – 2016 , he was the vice-dean for research and the head of Doc­tor­al Stud­ies at the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, in the fol­low­ing term he served as dean of the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics.

Col. Jacek Świder­s­ki grad­u­at­ed from the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy (MUT) in 1999. He earned his MSc degree major­ing in elec­tron­ics and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion with spe­cial­iza­tion in opto­elec­tron­ic devices. At the same time he stud­ied accord­ing to an indi­vid­ual pro­gram with a focus on laser engi­neer­ing.

He start­ed his pro­fes­sion­al mil­i­tary ser­vice in 1999 in the 1^st Region­al Tech­ni­cal Work­shop in Grudz­iądz as an Offi­cer of Plan­ning Depart­ment. In 2000 he returned to MUT and start­ed work at the Insti­tute of Opto­elec­tron­ics (IOE) tak­ing posi­tions of senior engi­neer, assis­tant, assis­tant pro­fes­sor and asso­ciate pro­fes­sor. Dur­ing this time, he also com­plet­ed post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in the field of Ped­a­gogy (Insti­tute of Human­i­ties MUT, in 2001) and Advanced tech­niques and meth­ods of teach­ing (Fac­ul­ty of Mecha­tron­ics MUT, in 2008). In 2006 he received a PhD degree in the field of elec­tron­ics, spe­cial­iza­tion opto­elec­tron­ics at the Fac­ul­ty of Elec­tron­ics MUT. In 2015 he obtained his post­doc­tor­al degree in tech­ni­cal sci­ences for which he received a Prime Min­is­ter’s Award.

Col. Jacek Świder­s­ki is a spe­cial­ist in the field of diode-pumped sol­id state lasers. He has been involved in the research on near- and mid-infrared high pow­er fiber lasers and ampli­fiers, includ­ing con­tin­u­ous wave (CW) and pulsed sys­tems, super­con­tin­u­um sources as well as devel­op­ment works on appli­ca­tion of the above-men­tioned laser sources in mil­i­tary tech­nique and med­i­cine. He is a co-author of sev­er­al med­ical laser devices designed for surgery of soft bio­log­i­cal tis­sue. He is a leader of Fiber Laser Group in Laser Tech­nol­o­gy Depart­ment IOE MUT.

He is an author and co-author of 1 book and over 150 pub­li­ca­tions in peer-reviewed jour­nals and con­fer­ence pro­ceed­ings 50 of which were pub­lished in jour­nals indexed in the JCR list, 4 patents and 1 patent appli­ca­tion. He also par­tic­i­pat­ed in 27 sci­en­tif­ic projects financed by Min­istry of Sci­ence and High­er Edu­ca­tion, Nation­al Sci­ence Cen­tre, Nation­al Cen­ter for Research and Devel­op­ment and Euro­pean Defence Agency being a prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tor in 15 projects. Besides, being nom­i­nat­ed by Pol­ish Min­istry of Defence, he par­tic­i­pat­ed in sev­er­al task groups work­ing with the NATO Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Orga­ni­za­tion (STO).

Between 2005 – 2009 he was a mem­ber of Sci­en­tif­ic Coun­cil of the Insti­tute of Opto­elec­tron­ics, at present he is a mem­ber of Sci­en­tif­ic Coun­cil of Auto­mat­ic, Elec­tron­ics and Elec­trotech­nics Dis­ci­pline, since 2015 he has been a top­i­cal edi­tor of Opto-Elec­tron­ics Review jour­nal (sec­tion Laser Physics, Tech­nol­o­gy and Appli­ca­tions). He is also a mem­ber of Chap­ter of Hon­orary Dig­ni­ty MUT.

Cur­rent­ly, he is employed as a uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sor at the Laser Tech­nol­o­gy Depart­ment of the Opto­elec­tron­ics Insti­tute of MUT where he man­ages the Opti­cal Fibre Laser Team.

For sci­en­tif­ic and mil­i­tary activ­i­ties he received indi­vid­ual and team awards grant­ed by Rec­tor-Com­man­dant of the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy, NATO STO, Gold Medal for Mer­it for Nation­al Defense, Sil­ver Medal of the Armed Forces in the Home­land Ser­vice and Medal for Mer­it of the Repub­lic of Poland, 3rd class.

Moni­ka Szyłkows­ka, PhD

• A grad­u­ate of the Fac­ul­ty of Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­age­ment and Law in War­saw (2004)
• She also com­plet­ed post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in the field of Nation­al |Secu­ri­ty at the Fac­ul­ty of Strate­gic — Defense at the Nation­al Defense Uni­ver­si­ty in War­saw (2006)
• In 2014  obtained a doc­tor­al degree in the field of social sci­ences in the dis­ci­pline of secu­ri­ty sci­ence (Police Acad­e­my in Szczyt­no)
• In 2020 she obtained habil­i­ta­tion degree  in the field of social sci­ences in the dis­ci­pline of secu­ri­ty sci­ence (Police Acad­e­my in Szczyt­no)
• Since 2011 employ­ee at the Mil­i­tary Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy – Insti­tute of Secu­ri­ty and Defense of the Fac­ul­ty of Secu­ri­ty, Logis­tics and Man­age­ment
• Since 2016 Head of the Depart­ment of Strat­e­gy and Defence Sys­tems.
• 20016 – 2018 tutor of stu­dent intern­ships in the field of: state defense – prac­tice pro­file
• 2016 – 2018 mem­ber of the Fac­ul­ty of Logis­tic Coun­cil
• Dec­o­rat­ed with the Bronze Medal of the Armed Forces in the Home­land Ser­vice (2018)
• Lau­re­ate of the award of the Min­is­ter of Nation­al Defense in the field of didac­tic 2019
• Mem­ber of  the Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Secu­ri­ty Asso­ci­a­tion
• Author of pub­li­ca­tions relat­ed to cyber­space secu­ri­ty, vir­tu­al iden­ti­ty, legal aspects of secu­ri­ty in the field of research.