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Polish Academy of Sciences Katowice Branch

Office in Katowice:
ul. Krasińskiego 8, 40-019 Katowice
phone: +48 (32) 450 34 00

Presidium:
President: Professor Józef Dubiński, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Vice-President: Professor Andrzej Więcek, Corresponding Member of the Academy

Members:
Professor Stanisław Gajda, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Professor Barbara Jarząb, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Professor Jerzy Klamka, Ordinary Member of the Academy

The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences was established on December 19, 1974. It operates in the region of Opole and Śląsk Voivodships. The Branch’s principal activities are carried out by its 23 scientific committees consisting of senior research scientists from various PAN centers, universities, and R&D units appointed by the Branch's Board and assisted in their work by junior researchers. The chief task of the committees is to hold scientific meetings and conferences, during which representatives of the regional scientific community can exchange views, ideas, and experience.
One of the Branch’s achievements is that it has initiated and developed a regional strategy identifying scientific priorities and solutions with a view to stimulate the development of scientific disciplines most beneficial to society. Significantly, the Branch collaborates with many institutions of higher education operating in the region, while senior research scientists employed at various PAN units often lecture at local universities. The unit has contributed to the establishment of the Regional Board of Rectors chaired by one of the Branch’s member and the setting up of the Silesian Academic Computer Network, which constitute further examples of integration between the universities and the Academy in the region.
Since its inception, the Branch has published over 220 voluminous scientific works such as the regularly issued: Linguistica Silesiana, Śląskie Miscellanea (Silesian Miscellanea) and Spotkania z literaturą (Encounters with Literature).
 

Polish Academy of Sciences Gdańsk Branch

Office in Gdańsk:
ul. Jaśkowa Dolina 31, 80-286 Gdańsk
phone: +48 (58) 712 97 00, fax: +48 (58) 712 97 80
 
 
Presidium:
President: Professor Janusz Limon, Ordinary Member of the Academy
Vice-President: Professor Piotr Kowalik, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Vice-President: Professor Grzegorz Węgrzyn, Corresponding Member of the Academy

Members:
Professor Jan Kiciński, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Professor Henryk Krawczyk, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Professor Janusz Pempkowiak, Corresponding Member of the Academy
Professor Józef Szudy, Corresponding Member of the Academy

The Polish Academy of Sciences established the Gdańsk Branch on May 30, 1980. Its zone of activity encompasses the northern part of Poland and the following academic centers: Szczecin, Koszalin, Słupsk, Gdańsk, Olsztyn, Bydgoszcz, and Toruń. The major aim of the Branch is to integrate and promote scientific activities significant for the development of the region. The Branch acts through its ten commissions and three expert groups, which organize meetings and discuss problems in the fields of their activity. The majority of the commissions focus on the disciplines of regional importance, for example: maritime and tropical medicine, maritime law, and marine technology. In cooperation with the commissions and local universities, the Gdańsk Branch issues the following titles: Prawo Morskie (Maritime Law), Roczniki Socjologii Morskiej (Annuals of Marine Sociology), Technika Morska (Marine Technology Transactions), Annual of Navigation, Organizacja i Zarządzanie w Regionie Nadmorskim (Organization and Management in Maritime Regions).
 

Prof. Paweł Rowiński - Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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Paweł M. ROWIŃSKI is Professor in Earth Sciences, granted in 2009 by the President of Poland and the Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since May 2015 Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2008 to May 2015 was the CEO of the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. In years 2004 – 2008 he was the Research Director of that Institute. Until May 2015 he was also the chairman of the Board of Directors of Earth and Planetary Research Centre (GeoPlanet) and the chair of the council of provosts at Division III: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He studied applied mathematics at the University of Warsaw and earned the M.S. degree in mathematics in 1988 and after that he devoted all his further career to Earth Sciences. He received the Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences in 1995 and his Habilitation in 2003 from the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1991 to 1992 he was a visiting scholar (Soros Fellow) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was also a trainee of Central European University in Budapest, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA and Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei im Forschungsverbund in Berlin. His research interests and contributions are in mathematical modelling of hydrological processes, fluvial hydraulics, river turbulence, pollution and sediment transport in rivers, two-phase flows, chaotic dynamics, water balance in a catchment, adaptive environmental assessment and management. He has over 130 scientific publications and numerous presentations to his credit. He has been a co-author and co-editor of 15 scientific volumes. He has been the leader and coordinator of numerous international and national projects (among them financed by EU, US- AID in the Framework of US-Poland Technology Transfer Project; by the Sendzimir Foundation and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education). He was awarded a number of recognised prizes, among them the Award of the Prime Minister of Poland for outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation and later for outstanding Habilitation dissertation, Stipend of the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding young scientists, scholarship of the Central European University. In 2015 he received the “Bene merito” honorary distinction awarded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs which is conferred upon the citizens of the Republic of Poland and foreign nationals in recognition of their merits in promoting Poland abroad. He was an Associate Editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal (IAHS Press, Wallingford, UK) and currently is the Editor in Chief of Monographic Series: Geoplanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, Springer Verlag and Associate Editor of Springer Briefs in Earth Sciences. He is also a member of numerous professional international and national bodies and among them he is an elected member of Leadership Team of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research IAHR - Europe Regional Division, elected member of the Scientific Society of Warsaw, member of the Council for the Promotion of the Public Understanding of Science and Committee of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of scientific councils of five research institutions. He has been an organizer and participant of numerous symposia and workshops; starting from 2005 he has been the chairman of the International School of Hydraulics run under the auspices of IAHR (already its six editions).

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