Romuald Rządkowski graduated in Engineering from Gdansk University of Technology and in Mathematics from the Gdansk University. He is currently a Professor and Head of Aeroelasticity Department at the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery PASci (IFFM). He was awarded PhD in 1988 and DSc in 1998 at the IFFM. His work has been occupied with the problems of dynamics of fluid flow machinery and he has specialized in the area of free, forced vibration in bladed discs, unsteady forces and flutter, blade life, signal processing and steam and gas turbine diagnostics. His scientific achievements include 20 books,  300 work published in Polish and foreign scientific journals and in conference materials, as well as 200 works of a technical character.