Visiting Professors oraz Visiting Lecturers

Szkoła Doktorska oferuje niepowtarzalną możliwość wzięcia udziału w zajęciach prowadzonych przez akademickich ekspertów – profesorów i wykładowców z całego świata. W ramach programów „Visiting Professors” oraz „Visiting Lecturers” doktoranci, dzięki wyjątkowym zajęciom, mają szansę wzbogacić indywidualny tok kształcenia oraz poszerzyć horyzonty wiedzy. Zapraszamy do śledzenia aktualności, ponieważ oferta tych zajęć jest zróżnicowana i aktualizowana na bieżąco. Szczegóły dotyczące przedmiotów, w tym tematyki, terminów itp., można znaleźć poniżej w kartach przedmiotów oraz w zakładce zajęcia dydaktyczne.

Zasady współpracy

Programy Visiting Lecturers oraz Visiting Professors polegają na ścisłej współpracy pomiędzy Szkołą Doktorską, Osobą zgłaszającą oraz Wizytującym. Zgłoszenia są przyjmowane i weryfikowane przez Przewodniczącą Komisji Kształcenia, prof. dr hab. inż. Anetę Pobudkowską-Mirecką (ksztalcenie.sd@pw.edu.pl). Po zaakceptowaniu propozycji zajęć dla doktorantów, Szkoła Doktorska przedstawia szczegóły funkcjonowania programów. Przede wszystkim dotyczą one następującego podziału obowiązków:

  • Szkoła Doktorska – odpowiedzialna jest za przekazanie wszelkich niezbędnych informacji oraz przedstawienie kwestii organizacyjno-administracyjnych dotyczące umowy z Wizytującym, wynagrodzenia, zwrotów kosztów podróży oraz zakwaterowania.
  • Osoba zgłaszająca – odpowiedzialna jest za asystę Wizytującego w trakcie realizacji zajęć stacjonarnych bądź online oraz organizacji pobytu i podróży. Najważniejszym aspektem jest organizacja oraz promocja zajęć: zapewnienie terminów, miejsca oraz uczestników.
  • Wizytujący – odpowiedzialny jest za przeprowadzenie zajęć zgodnie z umową. Wizytujący również musi we własnym zakresie zapłacić i zorganizować podróż oraz zakwaterowanie, których koszty zostaną zwrócone przez Szkołę Doktorską po przedstawieniu wymaganych dokumentów (faktury/rachunki oraz potwierdzenia płatności).

Osobą odpowiedzialną za obsługę administracyjną w Szkole Doktorskiej jest Piotr Salamon (piotr.salamon@pw.edu.pl).

Nasi goście ,,Visiting Professors" oraz ,,Visiting Lecturers"

Prof. Haitham Abu-Rub

Visiting Professor

1 st course offered: Electric energy conversion (4606-VP-ES-00007)

2nd course offered: Smart grid (4606-VP-ES-00008)

Semester: 2025L

Dates: 03.2025 - 06.2025

Coordinator of the courses: Prof. dr hab. inż. Mariusz Malinowski

Haitham Abu-Rub is a professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) and holds two PhDs. He was promoted to professor title in 2012 by Texas A&M University, USA.

Abu-Rub received two PhDs, one in electrical engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in 1995, and the second Ph.D. degree in humanities from Gdansk University, Poland, in 2004.

Abu-Rub has research and teaching experiences at many universities in many countries including Qatar, Poland, Palestine, USA, UK, and Germany. Abu-Rub has served for five years as the chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at TAMUQ and is serving as the managing director of the Smart Grid Center at the same university. His main research interests include power electronics converters, renewable energy systems, electric drives, and smart grid.

Abu-Rub is the recipient of many national and international awards and recognitions. He is the recipient of Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt scholarships. Abu-Rub has secured and successfully supervised and supervising many advanced research projects with over $20M funds. His research group contained many PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

Abu-Rub has published more than 600 journal and conference papers, two issued patents, seven books, and seven book chapters. He has offered numerous trainings for industry engineers, keynote speeches, and special courses for students. Dr. Abu-Rub is a Fellow of the IEEE and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Abu-Rub is a Fellow of IEEE and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Prof. Jaromir Riha

Visting Professor

1st course offered: Flood as threat to urbanisation (4606-VP-ES-00016)

2nd course offered: Safety of hydrualic structures (4606-VP-ES-00019)

Semester: 2025L

Dates: 04.2025 - 06.2025

Coordinator of the courses: dr hab. inż. Agnieszka Dąbska

Professor Jaromir Riha is an author or co-author of: more than 70 professional and scientific papers in journals, 44 indexed in Scopus (h index = 12), 38 in WOS (h index = 10); 26 monographs, textbooks and guidelines; more than 200 conference papers and contributions. 

He is an author or co-author of: more than 150 research (basic and applied) reports; about 60 technical studies and designs; more than 600 expert assessments; 51 forensic judgements. He belongs to several memberships, including: Internation Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Resarch (IAHR), International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD), Chech Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD). 

He is teaching since 1987 resulting in more than 60 diploma graduates in BSc and MSc degrees and was a supervisor of 12 finished PhD students.

Prof. Agnieszka Nowak-Król

Visiting Professor

Course offered: Functional Dyes in Modern Chemistry and Technology (4606-VP-ES-00015)

Semester: 2025L

Dates: 03.2025

Coordinator of the course: Prof. dr hab. inż. Agnieszka Adamczyk-Woźniak

Agnieszka Nowak-Król graduated with honors from the Rzeszów University of Technology in Poland, where she worked with Dr. Grażyna Groszek on the synthesis of bioactive compounds. For her master’s thesis, she was awarded the distinction for Janina Janikowa Award of the Polish Chemical Society for the best MSc thesis in chemistry in Poland in 2008. She earned her doctorate at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2013 with Prof. Daniel Gryko. Her research focused on the design and synthesis of porphyrinoids (porphyrins and corroles) with large two-photon absorption cross-section and appropriate secondary properties, such as liquidity at room temperature or liquid crystallinity. During her PhD thesis, she was the PI of two grants, one funded by the Foundation for Polish Science (Ventures Programme) and another one by the National Science Center. She then continued her career as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow and a subgroup leader with Prof. Frank Würthner at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Würzburg in Germany. In the Würthner group, she explored the chemistry and properties of perylene bisimide dyes and acceptor-donor-acceptor materials for organic electronics and photovoltaics, as well as fundamental processes in covalently linked and supramolecular dye architectures. In 2016, she started her independent career as a group leader at the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry in Würzburg. In 2019, she received the prestigious Emmy-Noether grant (€1.87 million) from the German Research Foundation to establish her independent research group. In 2019, she received a call for a tenure-track position from the University of Bonn, which she declined, and in 2020, she accepted a tenure-track junior professor position at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron of the University of Würzburg. She was promoted to professor in 2024. Agnieszka is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the Arnold Sommerfeld Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Hector Research Career Development Award of the Hector Fellow Academy, the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, the Bürgenstock JSP Fellowship of the Swiss Chemical Society, the Wojciech Swietoslawski Award, and the Zonta Award. She is a member of the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum, Soltech, the Polish Chemical Society, and the German Chemical Society, and a member of the Early Career Advisory Board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers. Her research lies at the interface of organic, inorganic and materials chemistry. Her current activities focus on the development of helically chiral π-conjugated organoboron compounds, boron-containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, photoswitches, helicenes containing other main group elements and their applications in organic electronics and bioimaging.

Prof. Przemysław Musialski

Visiting Professor

1 st course offered: Advanced Geometry for Computer Science (4606-VP-ES-00023)

2nd course offered: Modern AI in Visual Computing (4606-VP-ES-00022)

Semester: 2025L

Dates: Will be provided soon

Coordinator of the courses: Dr inż. Joanna Porter-Sobieraj

Przemyslaw Musialski is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA. His research in computer graphics focuses on geometric modeling, geometry processing, and digital fabrication combined with modern machine learning to create algorithmic solutions for digital content generation.

Before joining NJIT, he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria, where he also led the Computational Fabrication group at the Center for Geometry and Computational Design (GCD).

Prior to that, he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization in Vienna, a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University, a postdoctoral associate at Computer Graphics at TU Wien, and a visiting research scientist at the Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

He earned his MSc in Media Systems Science in 2007 from Bauhaus University Weimar and his PhD in Computer Science in 2010 from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).

dr Małgorzata Kozak

Visiting Lecturer

Course offered: Regulation of Emerging Media and Technologies: Legal Frameworks and Competiton Law (4606-VL-ES-00020)

Semester: 2025L

Dates: 27-28.03.; 10-11.04.; 22-23.05.; 2 meetings in June

Coordinator of the course: Dr hab. inż. Robert Zajdler, prof. uczelni

Dr. Małgorzata Kozak is an academic specializing in EU, media and competition law with a robust academic and professional career. Currently she is working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht's School of Law. As Managing Editor of the Utrecht Law Review since 2021, she has played an important role in advancing legal scholarship.

Dr. Kozak's academic contributions encompass a vast array of publications, including books, journal articles, and legal commentaries, with a focus on competition law, media regulation, and EU antitrust policy.

Notably, she successfully represented a client before the EU General Court, securing a landmark ruling on judicial protection rights and competition law.

Her commitment to mentoring students has resulted in multiple award-winning theses.

Dr hab. Łukasz Grzejdziak

Visiting Lecturer

Course offered: International and Comparative Competition Law. Between market, digital economy, and sustainability (4606-VL-ES-00021)

Semester: 2025L

Dates: 12.05.2025 - 04.06.2025

Coordinator of the course: Dr hab. inż. Robert Zajdler, prof. uczelni

Łukasz Grzejdziak is a lecturer in competition law at the University of Strathclyde School of Law, Glasgow, a visiting professor at the Sutherland School of Law University College Dublin, and a research associate at the Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, University of Warsaw. He specialises in competition law, including state aid, Polish, EU, US and comparative antitrust law and public economic law. Łukasz Grzejdziak has participated in numerous international scholarship programmes, including the Senior Fulbright Award, the Kosciuszko Foundation Grant (both at IIT-Kent College of Law in Chicago) and the M. Bekker Program (at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago). He is a recipient of the Ronan Harty Newman Fellowship in New Frontiers in Competition Law at University College Dublin. He conducted research at the Centre for European Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is the author of numerous publications on competition law, including two books, including a three-time award-winning monograph on State aid to services of general economic interest. He has published in the Common Market Law Review and the German Law Review. Łukasz Grzejdziak has extensive practical experience in state aid and Polish and EU competition law. He has participated in numerous antitrust, merger and state aid proceedings before Polish and EU competition authorities. He has conducted dozens of workshops and trainings on state aid and antitrust law for administrative authorities and entrepreneurs.

Wizytujący, którzy z nami współpracowali

Prof. Andrzej Nowak

Course offered: Reliability of Structures

Semester: 2024Z

Dates: 16.10.2024 – 20.12.2024

Course card: Reliability of Structures (4606-VP-ES-00005)

Prof. Andrzej S. Nowak works at Auburn University in the USA at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, after 25 years at the University of Michigan and 8 years at the University of Nebraska. He received his MS and Ph.D. from the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland.His area of expertise is structural reliability and bridge engineering, and major research accomplishments include the development of a reliability-based calibration procedure for calculation of load and resistance factors. The procedure was successfully applied on calibration of AASHTO LRFD design code for bridges, ACI 318 Code for Concrete Buildings, Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, and British Standard BS-5400. He made important contributions in the area of bridge diagnostics and evaluation, including analytical load models used for prediction of extreme load events for bridges and buildings and the development of efficient experimental procedures for weigh-in-motion measurement of truck loads, dynamic loads on bridges and fatigue load spectra.  In the area of materials, Prof. Nowak has developed a design guide for self-consolidating concrete (SCC), including field applications.  Prof. Nowak has authored over 450 technical publications, and chaired a number of committees associated with professional organizations.

Prof. Kassim Adekunle Akanni

1st Course offered: Entrepreneurship Studies

2nd Course offered: Marketing Management

Semester: 2024Z

Dates: 10.2024 – 12.2024

Course card: Entrepreneurship Studies (4606-VP-ES-00004)

Course card: Marketing Management (4606-VP-ES-00003)

Professor Akanni, Kassim Adekunle is a research fellow at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. His research and teaching activities include agricultural economics, marketing, consumer research, development economics and international trade. Author of over 80 articles in reputable academic journals and several monographs. Public commentator on contemporary economic and social issues in Nigeria. Winner of many international grants and research awards. Member of many professional organizations such as the Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists (NAAE), Business and Economics Society International (B& ESI) in the USA, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration in Canada. Consultant to national and international organizations such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the Lagos State Government in Nigeria, Department for International Development (DFID) in the UK, Alliance for Global Integration in Malaysia.

Prof. Michel Cassir

Course offered: Key issues in Hydrogen & CO2 valorisation:
an electrochemical approach

Semester: 2024Z

Dates: 21.10.2024 – 25.10.2024

Course card: Key issues in Hydrogen & CO2 valorisation:
an electrochemical approach (4606-VL-ES-00002)

Michel Cassir is Emeritus Professor at Chimie ParisTech, PSL-University. Former leader of the research team “Interfaces, Electrochemistry, Energy” (I2E). He obtained his Ph.D. and habilitation at the University of Paris VI, France. He was a Professor 9 years at the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He was Director of the Laboratory “Electrochemistry, Chemistry of Interfaces & Modeling for Energy”. His expertise covers electrochemistry, molten salts, solid oxides, separation techniques, thin layers and nanotechnology. His main activities are dedicated to high temperature fuel cells & electrolysers (MCFC, SOFC, PCFC, hybrid cells), batteries, CO2 capture, thin layers, catalysis and sensors. He gave more than 300 conferences in scientific events (>100 invited conferences) and authored 295 scientific peer-reviewed publications, proceedings & book chapters. Director of 30 Ph.D. thesis and of an important number of academic & industrial collaborations.Professor Michel Cassir will share his scientific and professional experience, through a serial of courses/conferences, as Invited Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering. He will address a large panel of topics, from the understanding of electrochemistry and electrochemical devices to the insight into hydrogen economy and renewable energy sources and, finally, a view on new CO2 capture technologies. He will also give a critical approach on sustainable development.

Prof. María José Martínez-Echevarría Romero

Course offered: New-generation concretes

Semester: 2024Z

Dates: 10.2024 - 11.2024

Course card: New-generation concretes (4606-VL-ES-00012)

Professor at the University of Granada since 2008, in the Department of Civil Engineering Construction and Engineering Projects. I teach Civil Engineering Construction and Material Science in Civil Engineering Degree as well as Material Science and Concrete in Science and Technology Architectural Heritage Master and Advanced Concretes in Civil Engineering Master at the same University. Civil Engineering, PhD since 2012. My research is focused on construction materials and the main research lines among others are: Reuse of waste in concrete; New technologies in self-compacting concrete; Study of corrosion of reinforcements in concrete; Revaluation of technological nutrients as building materials; Sustainable pavements and recycled asphalt mixes. I accumulate a series of university management activities such as the direction of the Departmental Section of Construction Engineering, the Coordination of External Practices of the School, the participation as a member of the Master Academic Committee and the Internal Guarantee of the Quality and since 2021 I am deputy director of the Civil Engineering School at the University of Granada.

Prof. Reinhard Miller

Course offered: Drops and Bubbles – an introduction to colloids and interface science

Semester: 2024Z

Dates: 11.2024 - 12.2024

Course card: Drops and Bubbles – an introduction to colloids and interface scienceurers (4606-VL-ES-00006)

Reinhard Miller studied Mathematics at University of Rostock (1969-1973) and Colloid Chemistry at the Technical University Dresden (1977-1978), Germany. He got his PhD in 1978 and Habilitation in 1988, both at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Germany, on problems of adsorption kinetics and dilational visco-elasticity of surfactant adsorption layers. From 1992 until 2015 he worked as Group-Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam/Golm in the field of thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanics of surfactant and protein adsorption layers at liquid-fluid interfaces. 2015-2019 he was Senior Scientist at the same Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interface, and since 2020 Dr. Miller is Associate Senior Scientist in the Institute for Soft Matter Physics at the Technical University Darmstadt. His scientific interests are dynamics and mechanics of liquid interfaces, thermodynamics of adsorption of surfactants, proteins, polymers, particles and their mixtures, interfacial interactions and 2D shear and dilational rheology, formation and stability of foams and emulsions. He published about 700 papers in referenced journals (Web of Science), about 50 chapters in books, and about 50 contributions to printed conference proceedings.