MSc (Appl Mech – Cracow Univ Techn 1980), (Theor. Physics – the Jagiellonian Univ, 1980) PhD (Appl Mech – Cracow Univ Techn 1986) DSc (Appl Mech – Cracow Univ Techn 1992) Habilitation Professor of Technical Sciences (President of Poland) – 2004 Subjects of Scientific works: optimal design, beams, plates, shells, pressure vessels, composite materials & structures, sandwich structures, nanostructures, FEM analysis, buckling, fuzzy logic, thermal analysis, experimental analysis – static, fatigue, piezoelctric transducers, FGM Supervisor of 12 PhD Thesis – first 2002 last 2021 Chair of 7 scientific grants. Author of 165 papers cited in Scopus (h=23) and 79 papers in Polish. 3 prizes of the Polish Ministry of Education and Science for scientific achievements in 1999, 2004 and 2021. I was cited 5 times among the 2% of the best scientists in the world (Scopus, Stanford). Edit.Board J. of Composites Part C and of Mech of Composite Materials. The head of the Institute of Machine Design (CUT) 2011-2021. More than 150 referees at the scientific conferences Scholarship: University of Liverpool (1986-88),DTH Lyngby (1992) Ten of scientific visits longer than 1 week. I built laboratory of failure of composite materials and structures (CUT) – vacuum bag method, MTS machine, acoustic emission, thermal analysis, DIC. I was employed at Mech. Eng. Faculty from 1980-2021. Now I am working at the Faculty of Material Eng. and Physics – Department of Physics