Marek Nykiel has been employed at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering of the Cracow University of Technology since 1997. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering at the Cracow University of Technology in 2002. His scientific activity is oriented towards technological, scientific, and didactic issues in the field of powder metallurgy, especially sintered stainless steels, ceramics, and metal and polymer composites, tribology, thermal analysis, and additive technologies. He has 25 publications with 210 citations and an h-index of 8 (Scopus, 27 October 2023).