Head of Department, Professor Romuald Rządkowski graduated from Gdansk University of Technology and in Mathematics at Gdansk University. From 1983 he has been an employee of the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery (IFFM) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdansk. He was awarded PhD in 1988 and DSc in 1998 at the IFFM. From the beginning of his work he has been occupied with the problems of dynamics of fluid flow machinery and he has specialized in the area of free, forced vibration in bladed discs, unsteady forces and flutter. His scientific achievements include 2 books, 98 work published in Polish and foreign scientific journals and in conference materials, as well as 116 works of a technical character.