Andrzej G. Chmielewski is a Professor and the Director General of the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He earned his MSc, PhD, and DSc from the Warsaw University of Technology. He also completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA from 1976 to 1977, and worked as the Technical Officer at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria from 2003 to 2005. He has served as a professor at the Warsaw University of Technology from 1968 to 1983 and 2002 to 2013, and is a member of the Polish Nuclear Society. Chmielewski shared as an IAEA staff member Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, “for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way”. He also received the “Lifetime Award for Science” from the iiA in 2013 and the IAEA Team Merit Award in 2005. Additionally, he has been honored with state orders, including the Golden Cross of Merit, the Chevalier and Officer Crosses of Poland, Polonia Restituta, and the Commander of the Order of Academic Palms in France.