Bio

Anna Lawniczak holds a M.Eng. (summa cum laude) in Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems in Technology, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University (USA). She has been a professor at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA, USA), at the University of Toronto, and since 1989 at the University of Guelph.

Prof. Lawniczak held several visiting positions at various institutions. She has been a visitor, collaborator, and consultant at the Center for Nonlinear Studies of Los Alamos National Laboratory in USA and has been both program visitor and non-program visitor at The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, both in Waterloo and in Toronto, where she organized various scientific activities and served on the Board of Directors and on the Council. Lawniczak has also been a program fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles, USA and a Principal Investigator in Mathematics at the Energenius Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology, University of Toronto. She was invited to visit various universities (e.g. University of Bonn, Centre for Stochastic Processes at the University of North Carolina, Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware, the University of Roma, etc).

Prof. Lawniczak has been a President of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and a President of Canadian Applied Mathematics Society. She has been a Member of the Research Council of the Hugo Steinhaus Center, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, a Board Member of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and a Member of the Board of Directors of Canadian Mathematics Society. She has also been a Chair of IEEE Toronto “Signals & Computational Intelligence" Chapter.

Anna Lawniczak is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Fellow of The Fields Institute.