Tomasz Szolc graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology at the Department of Motor Vehicles and Working Machinery in 1980 (MSc degree). His scientific career continued at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) in 1986 and habilitation (DSc) in 2004. His research interests include the dynamics of mechanical systems, rotating machinery dynamics and railway system dynamics, the active and semi-active vibration control of mechanical systems, and electromechanical coupling effects in drive systems. In the years 1994‒1996 he completed a research internship as a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Technology Hamburg-Harburg and at the University of Stuttgart. In 2006‒2012 he worked as a professor at the Department of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2019, he obtained the academic title of Full Professor of Engineering and Technical Sciences.