Prof. Szmyd received an M.Sc. Eng. from the AGH University of Science and Technology in 1977. He has been employed since 1980 at AGH University of Science and Technology, where he received a Ph.D. (1980) and D.Sc. (1992) and a Professor position (1995). In 2002 he received the Professor title (given by President of Poland) and in 2005 the Special Full Professor position given by the Minister of Higher Education in Poland. He received the title Doctor Honris Causa, from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2015. He has published more than 250 scientific papers on numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer, turbulent flows and turbulent heat transfer, interactive computational and experimental methodologies, convection in Czochralski melt systems, magnetic convection, solid oxide fuel cell systems, and energy and exergy analysis. He is the President of EUROTHERM Committee (European Committee for the Advancement of Thermal Sciences and Heat Transfer). He is a member of the Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics. He is vice chairman of Commission on Threats to Civilization, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an Associate Editor for International Series on Developments in Heat Transfer and he was a Guest Editor of Progress of Computational Fluid Dynamics International Journal, Guest Editor of International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, and Guest Editor of Heat and Mass Transfer.