Prof. Dr. Piotr Szymak graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw with an MSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication in 1999. He served for two years in the 6th Radioelectronic Centre in the Polish Navy. Since 2001, he has been serving in the Polish Naval Academy (PNA) in the following positions: assistant, lecturer, adjunct, head of department, assistant professor, and associate professor. He was a director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering and Automatics in PNA from 2015 to 2019. He was a Polish naval Captech National Coordinator in the European Defence Agency from 2019 to 2021. In 2004, he received a PhD degree from the Polish Naval Academy, and in 2016, he obtained the academic degree of habilitated doctor at Cracow University of Technology. His research area is strictly connected with the modeling and control of marine objects, especially unmanned surface and underwater vehicles, including recently biomimetic underwater vehicles.