Prof. Jerzy J. Sobczak, DHC

Professor Jerzy Józef SOBCZAK earned a doctor degree in high temperature metallurgy from Technical University in Sankt Petersburg, habilitation from Technical University in Poznan and title of full professor from the President of the Republic of Poland. Doctor honoris causa of the Technical University of Varna (Bulgaria). Distinguished Worker of the ITS Motor Transport Institute (Warsaw) and Foundry Research Institute (Cracow). Visiting professor at foreign universities, including University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Osaka University and Tohoku University (Japan), visiting scientists and scholar at plenty of European and US research and development institutions and industrial companies. Member of numerous technical associations and scientific societies in Poland and abroad (including AFS, TMS, ICCE). Founder of the Polish Society of Composite Materials and its Vice-Chairman. Vice-President of the Polish Foundrymen’s Association, Chairman of the Committee of Metallurgy of Polish Academy of Sciences. The main field of his studies and R&D activity: special casting techniques of product manufacture, theory and practice of metal matrix composites, and synthesis of special engineering materials. Winner of numerous national and international awards (Maestro in Science-2012, Honorable Research Fellow-2014, Tribi Polonia Per Scientiam–2016 among many others) and honorable mentions in the field of science and technique, author of 61 books, brochures and several hundred scientific, research and technical papers, especially in the field of materials engineering and foundry science. Holder of 34 national and foreign patents, including US ones.

Executive Director of the Foundry Research Institute in Cracow (2007-2017); currently expert of the Institute of Metal Science, Equipment and Technologies of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, full professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of the Foundry Engineering.