Prof. Ph.D. Eng. Jacek Mąkinia has been professionally associated with the Gdańsk University of Technology since graduating in 1989. In December 2011, he was elected a member of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Management Committee of the "Nutrient Removal and Recovery" specialist group of the International Water Association (IWA), as well as a member of the working groups of the German Water Association (DWA) and the Water Environment Research Foundation in the USA. He spent over 7 years in academic centers abroad, mainly in the USA and Germany. He worked as a visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (twice). He was a scholarship holder of the Fulbright Foundation (1994-95), the Humboldt Foundation (2003-04, 2007, 2011), and the Kościuszko Foundation (2006). Prof. Ph.D. Eng. Jacek Mąkinia’s specialty is in the technology and modeling of wastewater treatment processes.