Wojciech Nowak graduated with honors in 1979 from the Faculty of Thermal Engineering of the Mariupol Technical University in Ukraine. He received Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in technical sciences at the Czestochowa Polytechnic University in 1983 and 1991, respectively. He became an associate professor in 1997 and a full professor in 1998. Since 2000, he has been Head of the Department of Atmosphere Protection at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of the Czestochowa Polytechnic University renamed as the Institute of Advanced Energy Technologies in 2011. He is currently a Director of this institute. From March 2014 he served as a Professor at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH UST. He is a member of three committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Environmental Engineering; Thermodynamics and Combustion, Energy Issues). He is Vice-President of the Polish Institute of Combustion. He has 162 publications with 2950 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, 20 October 2023).