Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Poznań Branch

President of the Poznań Branch of the PAS

Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Kaczorowski, President of the Branch

Mathematician, full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, active member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He conducts research in the field of analytical number theory, with particular emphasis on L-function theory, number field theory, prime ideals, and quantitative factorisation theory in arithmetic subgroups. Author of over 100 original creative works published in leading scientific journals, including Annals of Mathematics, Acta Mathematica and Inventiones Mathematicae. Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2012-2020), head of the Department of Algebra and Number Theory at the Adam Mickiewicz University (since 1995), member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (since 1997), member of the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles (2004-2012), member of the Mathematics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2004, chairman of the Committee since 2020), member of the Scientific Council of the Stefan Banach International Centre (2002–2009), member of the team of experts of the Research Committee and the National Science Centre. Editor-in-chief of Acta Arithmetica and Functiones et Approximatio, Commentarii Mathematici. Member of the editorial committees of Colloquium Mathematicum, Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Mathematics and Commentationes Mathematicae. Regular reviewer for Mathematical Reviews (since 1984) and Zentralblatt für Mathematik (since 1989). Member of the Polish Mathematical Society (since 1979), the American Mathematical Society (since 1984), and the European Mathematical Society (since 1990). Recipient of a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1987–1989). He has received numerous awards for his scientific work, including the Sierpiński Medal (2012), awards from the Prime Minister (2001), Division III of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1992), the Sierpiński Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1988) and four ministerial awards. He is a laureate of the Professorial Subsidy of the Foundation for Polish Science (2004-2005). Supervisor of 10 doctoral dissertations.

Vice-President of the Poznań Branch of the PAS

Prof. dr hab. inż. Hanna Bogucka, Vice-President of the Branch

Full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, full professor, head of the Department of Radio Communications at Poznań University of Technology Her research interests include mobile radio communications, cellular and wireless networks, including new transmission and reception techniques, multi-tone modulation, transmission optimisation, programmable and cognitive radio. She conducts research and manages numerous projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Centre for Research and Development, and the National Science Centre, as well as international projects under the European Union’s Framework Programmes and other international projects and cooperation with industry. She is the author of over 170 national and international publications, including three monographs, one collective monograph and three academic scripts. Prof. Hanna Bogucka, PhD, Eng., is one of the editors (Executive Editor) of the journal ‘Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies’ (Wiley), was a member of the editorial team of the journal ‘Recent Patents on Telecommunications’ (now Recent Advances in Communications and Networking Technology), Bentham Science Publishers, and Advances in Electronics and Telecommunications, published by the Poznań University of Technology. He is a member of the programme committees of numerous national and international conferences, as well as a frequent reviewer for global journals (from the Philadelphia list) and leading international conferences in the field of telecommunications held under the auspices of the IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). Since 1991, she has been a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Polish Chapter, IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee, IEEE Technical Committee of Green Communications and Computing, and IEEE ComSoc Networking Networking Women. In 2003-2006, she was a member of the National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), from 2012 to 2014 she was a member of the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award Committee, from 2017 to 2018 she was a member of the IEEE Awards Board, and currently she is a member of the Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the IEEE Nominations and Elections Committee (term of office 2018-2019). Prof. Hanna Bogucka held the position of Director of the IEEE Communications Society in the EAME region (Europe, Africa, Middle East) for the 2014-2015 term and Chair of the IEEE Radio Communications Committee for the 2015-2016 term. She was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit (2002) and the Gold Cross of Merit (2013), and is the winner of numerous awards for the best article at national and international conferences and in journals, as well as the IEEE Polish Section Service Award (2016) and the IEEE Radio Communications Committee „Outstanding Service Award” (2017).

Members of the Presidium of the Poznań Branch of PAS

Prof. dr hab. Jerzy M. Brzeziński, member of the Presidium of the Poznań Branch of PAS	Employed as a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (currently working half-time in research and teaching at the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science). He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University (1981-1985 and 1990-1996). He was Director of the Institute of Psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University (1999-2016) and founder and head of the Department of Psychological Research Fundamentals at the Institute. He has been a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1998. He was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for two terms) and a member of the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011-2014 and 2015-2018). He was a member of the Scientific Research Committee (1991-1994 and 1997-2004) and the Science Council (2008-2010). He is a member of the Committee on Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Committee on Ethics in Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Polish Psychological Association. He is the editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Nauka (Science) published by the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2004) and the creator and editor-in-chief of the publishing series: Wykłady z Psychologii (Lectures on Psychology) (Warsaw: Scholar Publishing House – since 2000) and ‘New Trends in Psychology’ (Warsaw: PWN Publishing House – since 1993). He is a member of the editorial board of the international series (published in English): ‘Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities’ (since 1981 Amsterdam: Rodopi, and since 2014 Leiden: Brill), as well as a member of the editorial board of: “Polish Psychological Bulletin” (since 1983). He was a member (1991-2020) of the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles (Section I). He has supervised 12 doctoral students. Research interests: philosophy of science, methodology of psychological research, ethics of scientific research, science studies, scientometrics, statistical methods in psychology, experimental design, psychometrics, psychological diagnosis, personality questionnaires, David Wechsler Intelligence Scales, university. Honorary doctorate from Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk University and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, and honorary professor at the University of Silesia. Awarded the Knight’s Cross and Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Medal of the National Education Commission.
Prof. dr hab. Jacek Radwan, member of the Presidium of the Poznań Branch of PAS	Corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Evolutionary Biology Laboratory (since 2012) and the Institute of Environmental Biology (since 2021) at the Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University. Member of the scientific councils of the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007-2013), the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007-10) and the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007-10 and since 2016). Head of the International Doctoral Programme at the Jagiellonian University (2010-2015). As a scholarship holder, he conducted research at universities in the United Kingdom (Oxford, Sheffield), the United States (New Mexico, as part of the Fulbright Programme) and Germany (Max Planck Institute, Humboldt scholarship). He has served on the editorial boards of, among others, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B (2007-2013) and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2008-2015). He is currently conducting research in the field of immunology and evolutionary genetics, particularly with regard to the evolution of pathogen resistance and sexual selection and conflict. He is the co-author of over 130 scientific articles, the vast majority of which have been published in renowned international journals. He was also the editor of the Polish translation of Douglas J. Futuyma’s book ‘Evolution’. According to a study by Stanford University and Elsevier, he is among the top 2% of the most cited evolutionary biologists in the world. His achievements in the field of evolutionary immunogenetics have been recognised with the Foundation for Polish Science Award (2020) and the Minister of Science and Higher Education Award. According to a study by Stanford University and Elsevier, he is among the top 2% of the most cited evolutionary biologists in the world. His achievements in the field of evolutionary immunogenetics have been recognised with the Foundation for Polish Science Award (2020) and the Minister of Science and Higher Education Award (2019). He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2022).
Prof. dr hab. n. med. Janusz Rybakowski, member of the Presidium of the Poznań Branch of PAS	Psychiatrist, full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The only psychiatrist in the history of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Retired head of the Adult Psychiatry Clinic at the Medical University of Poznań in 1995–2016. In 1976–77, he was a fellow of the US National Institutes of Health at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1985-95, he was the head of the Department and Clinic of Psychiatry at the Medical Academy in Bydgoszcz. His research covers the neurobiology and psychopharmacology of affective disorders and schizophrenia, with a focus on bipolar disorder and the therapeutic use of lithium. He is the author of over 600 publications, with a Hirsch index of 7260, the highest among Polish psychiatrists. He is the only psychiatrist among Polish names in the top 2% of scientists worldwide, according to a study by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2022. According to the 2023 Research.com ranking, he ranks 20th in Poland among scientists in the field of medicine. He has promoted 40 doctors of medical sciences. He is a member of several international scientific societies and several editorial committees of international journals. In 1998-2001, he was the president of the Polish Psychiatric Association. His most important publications include ‘Oblicza choroby maniakalno-depresyjnej’ (The Faces of Manic-Depressive Illness), Termedia, 3rd edition, 2018, and ‘Lit – niezwykły lek w psychiatrii’ (Lithium – An Unusual Drug in Psychiatry), Termedia, 2019. Both books are available in English and Russian. His most important awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award from European Bipolar Forum for lifetime achievement in bipolar disorder research (2012); Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Association for Biological Psychiatry (2015) and the Mogens Schou Scientific Award from the International Society of Bipolar Disorder (2018).
Prof. dr hab. inż. Roman Słowiński, member of the Presidium of the Poznań Branch of PAS	Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2019–2022), President of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011–2018), full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2013), corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2004), member of Academia Europaea (since 2013). He obtained the academic title of professor in 1989. He is a professor at the Poznań University of Technology and at the Institute of Systems Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1989, he founded the Department of Intelligent Decision Support Systems at the Institute of Computer Science of the Poznań University of Technology, which he headed until 2022. He is the founder of the scientific school of ‘intelligent decision support’, which combines operational research, artificial intelligence and new information technologies. He has supervised 28 doctoral students. Among other things, he developed an original decision support methodology called the dominant theory of approximate sets, for which he received the Foundation for Polish Science Award in 2005. Since 1999, he has been the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Operational Research (Elsevier) – one of the most important journals in the field of operational research in the world. He is the chairman of the European Working Group at EURO on Multi-Criteria Decision Support. Fellow of scientific societies: IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – 2017), IRSS (International Rough Set Society – 2015), INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences – 2019), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing – 2019) and IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies – 2022). Four foreign universities have awarded him honorary doctorates: Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) in 2000, Université Paris Dauphine (France) in 2001, Technical University of Crete in Chania (Greece) in 2008, and Hellenic Mediterranean University (Greece) in 2022. He is the winner of the EURO Gold Medal (Aachen 1991), the F. Edgeworth and V. Pareto Awards (Cape Town 1997), the FNP ‘Master’ Professorial Subsidy (2001), the Scientific Award of the City of Poznań (2003), the Scientific Award of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2016), the Scientific Award of the Prime Minister (2020) and the Humboldt Scientific Award (Germany, 2023). He is also a laureate of the ‘Golden Hippolytus’ (2017) and ‘Meritorious for the City of Poznań’ (2018) awards. In 2022, the Prime Minister of the French Republic awarded him the title and insignia of Officer of the Academic Palms.
Prof. dr hab. Marek Świtoński, member of the Presidium of the Poznań Branch of PAS	Full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding Fundamentals, Poznań University of Life Sciences (head 1989–2021), vice-rector of his alma mater, Poznań University of Agriculture (1990–1996). Member of the Science Council at the Ministry of Science and Information Technology (2004–2008), the Council of the Foundation for Polish Science (2008–2016), the European Academies Science Advisory Council (2016–2018), member of the scientific councils of the Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Jastrzębiec (since 1990), the Institute of Human Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań (since 1993, including as deputy chair of the Scientific Council since 2019) and the Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań (since 2011). In 2011-2018, he was vice-president of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and from 2019 to September 2024, he was president of the Poznań Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Genetics (2000-2022, Springer Nature) and is a member of the editorial board of the following journals: Scientific Reports (Nature), Gene (Elsevier), Animal Science Papers and Reports, and Veterinary Medicine. He is currently conducting research in the field of cytogenetics and molecular genetics, mainly in relation to genetic diseases in domestic animals. He is the co-author of over 270 original creative works and scientific articles, the vast majority of which have been published in renowned international scientific journals. He is also the co-author of 20 scientific books and academic textbooks, including: Animal Genetics and Genomics (PWN 2012), Animal Genetics (PWN 2000, 2004), Cytogenetic diagnostics of domestic animals (Ak. Rol. Poznań 2006), General and veterinary genetics (PWN 2023 – in print) and three publications by foreign publishers (CABI, Wiley and InTech). He has supervised 28 doctoral students. He is a laureate of the FNP MASTER programme (2000) and has been awarded four times by the Minister of Science and Higher Education (formerly the Minister of National Education) for his scientific achievements and training of scientific staff, and nine times by the Polish Genetic Society for his scientific publications. He is an honorary doctor of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin (2023). He was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit (1999) and the Medal of the National Education Commission (2014).