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Prof. Grzegorz Zboinski was born in 1954 in Gdansk in Pomerania. In years 1973-1978 he studied at the Gdansk University of Technology, where in 1978 he was graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In years 1978-1979 he worked as a design engineer at the Technique Center of Shipbuilding Industry. From 1980 to 1982 he was a postgraduate student of machine dynamics at the Faculty of Mechanics at the Kielce University of Technology. In years 1983-1984 he performed his design duties at the Vehicle Institute of the same university.

Prof. Zboinski started his academic career at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdansk University of Technology in 1986. In the period of 1989-1990 he was employed as a research engineer/advisor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas at Cuernavaca (Morelos) in Mexico. In 1991 he was awarded, with honours, his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Gdansk University of Technology. In the year 1989 he was and since 1992 he has been employed permanently at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdansk. In years 1993-1994 he worked as a visiting researcher at the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. In 2002 he was awarded his D.Sc. degree in Solid Mechanics also at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery. In 2016 the President of Republic of Poland awarded him the scientific title of Professor in Technical Sciences.

At present prof. Zboinski holds a position of associate professor at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2003-2020 he was employed as an  associate professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. In years 2004-2020 he was the chair of Department of Mechanics and Bases of Machine Design at this university. Since 2020 he has been granted a position of (full) professor at this university.

Prof. Zboinski's scientific interests are focused on various problems of applied mechanics, such as: solid mechanics (elasticity and elasto-plasticity), contact mechanics, variational formulations, non-linear static and dynamic analyses, dielectric and piezoelectric media, and hierarchical modeling as well. He is familiar with problems of nano-mechanics and intelligent materials and systems. Prof. Zboinski is also involved in computational mechanics problems, such as: non-linear finite element methods, adaptive modeling and hp-adaptive finite element analysis of complex structures. He is also interested in mechanical engineering problems such as: dynamics of structures and machines and non-linear analysis of technological objects. Prof. Zboinski is a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Polish Society of Computational Mechanics.

He is an author/coauthor of 242 scientific or technical works, including 20 published in top international academic journals. He is a co-author of 1 book, the author or co-author of: 1 monograph, 4 chapters and 12 articles in books, 63 journal papers, 87 conference works, and 74 reports, and the author/co-author of 3 large computer packages. He elaborated 106 reviews of papers submitted to scientific journals, including: Computers and Structures, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Part C – Journal of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and Computers and Mathematics with Applications. Prof. Zboinski reviewed also 46 conference and post-conference works, and 19 research grants as well. He is a board member of 5 international journals. He was the manager and/or a main performer of numerous Polish and foreign research grants. He supervised 3 Ph.D. theses.

International research experience:

• 18-month contract as a research engineer/advisor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca (Morelos), Mexico, 1988-1989
• 10-month Fulbright senior research grant, awarded by Center for International Exchange of Scholars, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mechanics, Austin (Texas), USA, 1993-1994
• 2-month TICAM faculty research grant, awarded by the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin (Texas), USA, 1994

Polish and international awards:

• Award of the Rector of the Gdansk University of Technology for scientific achievements, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
• Award of the Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology to industry commissioned works, 1987, 1988
• Ph.D. thesis awarded with honors, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Gdańsk University of Technology, 1991
• Recipient of the prestigious Fulbright research grant, awarded by US governmental agencies, 1993
• Biographical notes in Who's Who in the World, 14th-20th editions, 1997-2003, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 30th edition and the next ones, from 1998, as well as Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 8th edition, 2004
• Scientific Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences to the monograph series of papers on contact problems of elasticity and elasto-plasticity, 1997
• Award of the Director of the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery for publications in prestigious international journals, 1999