Hello! My name is Dr Sławomir K. Tadeja, and I am a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I work on research and innovations in learning technologies for manufacturing education and workforce development within the MIT Learning Engineering and Practice Group (LEAP Group).

Previously, I was a Research Associate with the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM), Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. In 2024, I was awarded the Institute of Manufacturing (IfM) 2023 Postdoctoral Award for Excellence in Research. Moreover, my co-authors and I, acting as the senior author of this paper, were awarded the 2024 IEEE ISMAR Best Journal Paper Honorable Mention at the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2024) for our work on the generalizability of evaluation results of industrial augmented reality (AR) systems. During my postgraduate appointment, I was part of the Cyber-Human Lab (CHL), founded and led by Dr Thomas Bohné, where I worked as a Research Associate in Cyber-Physical Solutions. Simultaneously, I also held a Postdoctoral Research Associateship (PDRA) at Trinity Hall.  I was also a Research Associate within the DigiTwin initiative for almost a year, where I worked on design methodologies for digital twinning under the supervision of Dr  Jerome Jarrett and Dr  Timoleon Kipouros.

I obtained my PhD from the Department of Engineering, Univeristy of Cambridge and Trinity Hall, under the supervision of Prof Per Ola Kristensson. My doctoral thesis concerned the exploration of immersive visual analytics in Virtual Reality (VR) applied in various branches of engineering, including Aerospace & Aeronautics, Design Engineering, and Civil Engineering. My doctoral studies were supported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Scholarship, as well as the Cambridge European & Trinity Hall Scholarship and Extension of the Cambridge European Scholarship, and Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship.

While an undergraduate and postgraduate student with the Jagiellonian Univeristy in Kraków, I undertook various internships and work placements, including CERN, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) belonging to European Space Agency (ESA), Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Kraków (IFJ PAN), and Microsoft Dublin. My MSc thesis was supervised by Prof Paweł Moskal. It concerned the application of 3D computer graphics techniques used in video games for Monte Carlo calculations of a multi-particle transport code. The latter was carried out as part of the Stoichiometry Analysis by Activation Techniques (SABAT) project.