Keynote speakers

Prof. Tomasz Sadowski obtained his PhD and habilitation at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship under the EU’s 5th Framework Programme.

He has worked as a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), the Technical University of Munich (Germany), the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), Martin Luther University Halle-Saale (Germany), Swansea University (UK) and others.

He has coordinated four European projects under the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Ovidius University (Constanta, Romania).

His current research interests include: continuum mechanics of damage and fracture in brittle and ductile materials and engineering structures. In particular, he focuses on: (1) modelling of ceramic, polymer, porous and foam composites, functionally graded composites subjected to mechanical loads and thermal shocks; (2) the deformation of damaged plates and sandwich structures; (3) experimental investigations of materials and structures subjected to static, cyclic thermal and impact loads.

Prof. T. Sadowski has published 301 papers (Scopus, h-index: 55). He has co-organised 34 international scientific conferences, at which he delivered 18 plenary and keynote lectures. He has coordinated and participated in several national projects funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) and the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR).

Stanisław Stupkiewicz is a professor at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT), Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, Poland and head of the Department of Mechanics of Materials. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology (1989) and received his PhD (1996) and habilitation (2006) at IPPT. Since 2011 he is a full professor. In 2013-2014, he spent one year in Italy as a visiting professor at the University of Trento.

His research interests include micromechanics of interfaces and interface layers, size effects, multiscale modelling of shape memory alloys, phase-field modelling of microstructure evolution, constitutive modelling of contact phenomena, contact mechanics, plasticity, crystal plasticity, and computational mechanics.

Since 2020 he is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Science. He is an Editor of Mechanics of Materials, Section Editor of Archives of Mechanics, and member of the editorial boards of Computational Mechanics and Archive of Applied Mechanics.

Martin Ostoja-Starzewski studied at Cracow University of Technology (1972-1977), followed by a Master’s (1980) and a Ph.D. (1983) at McGill University, all in mechanical engineering. He currently serves as a Professor at the Cracow University of Technology and as a Research Professor and Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

His research focuses primarily on stochastic mechanics, random and fractal media, continuum theories, and applied physics. He (co-)authored 260+ journal papers and four books:
1. Microstructural Randomness and Scaling in Mechanics of Materials, CRC Press (2007);
2. Thermoelasticity with Finite Wave Speeds, Oxford University Press (2009);
3. Tensor-Valued Random Fields for Continuum Physics, Cambridge University Press (2019);
4. Random Fields of Piezoelectricity and Piezomagnetism, Springer (2020).

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Thermal Stresses and has also served as an editor or editorial board member of numerous other journals (including Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Acta Mechanica). His distinctions include the Timoshenko Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University, Worcester Reed Warner Medal of ASME, Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Isaac Newton Institute (University of Cambridge), Fellow of ASME, American Academy of Mechanics, Society of Engineering Science, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and memberships in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and in Academia Europaea.