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Jan Awrejcewicz

Lodz University of Technology, The University of Tokyo, University of Strathclyde

Research areas: Engineering · Mechanical Engineering · Vibration and Dynamic Analysis · Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems · Chaos control and synchronization

ORCID iD 0000-0003-0387-921X
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Jan AWREJCEWICZ:
Head of the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics and Full professor at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Lodz University of Technology;
Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland); and Member of the Council for Scientific Excellence (Poland).

From the beginning of his academic career, he is associated with the Mechanical Faculty of the Lodz University of Technology, where he obtained a master's degree in engineering, a doctor’s degree in technical sciences and a postdoctoral degree (habilitation). In 1994, he received the title of Professor from the President of Poland.
In 1998, he founded the Department of Automation, Biomechanics and Mechatronics and he has been the Head of this department ever since. He managed EU programs TEMPRA, POLONIM, SOCRATES/ERASMUS and 17 research projects of the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW), and recently the grants of The National Science Centre (NCN) - MAESTRO 2, OPUS 9, OPUS 14, OPUS 18.
In years 2013-2019, he has been a member of the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles (2 terms), and since 2019 - a member of the newly established Council of Scientific Excellence in Poland.

His scientific achievements cover issues related to asymptotic methods for continuous and discrete systems, mathematical modeling and numerical investigations of structural members governed by nonlinear PDEs, computer implementations using symbolic calculus, nonlinear dynamics of discrete continuous and discrete systems with friction and impacts, taking into account thermoelasticity and tribology, bifurcation and chaotic phenomena, as well as engineering biomechanics.

For his scientific achievements, he was honored with the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award (twice).
In 2006, he became the laureate of the first edition of the Golden Lamp Award awarded by the PGNiG Foundation, and he received the award of the Foundation for Polish Science as part of the "Master" program in 2009. In addition, Prof. Awrejcewicz was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit, Medal of National Education Commission, Knight's Cross and Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, among others. He is also a recipient of the title of doctor honoris causa of the Częstochowa University of Technology (Częstochowa, Poland, 2014), the Academy of Technology and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała (Bielsko-Biała, Ukraine, 2014), Kielce University of Technology (Kielce, Poland, 2019), National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (Kharkiv , Ukraine, 2019) and Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk, Poland, 2019), Prydniprowska State Akademy of Civil Engineering and Architekture, (Dnipro, Ukraine, 2021), Politehnica University Timisoara (Timisoara, Romania, 2021).

He was the organizer and Chairperson of the series of international conferences: Dynamical Systems – Theory and Applications” in Łódź, Poland — (16; 1992-2021); "International Conference of the Polish Society of Biomechanics”, Łódź (2014); “Mechatronics: Ideas for Industrial Applications”, Warsaw (2012), Łódź (2014), Gdańsk (2015); “Biomechanics – Modelling, Numerical Simulations, Experimental Investigations and Biomedical Applications”, Łódź (1998); “Nonlinearity, Bifurcation and Chaos. The Doors to Future”, Łódź-Dobieszków (1996). He served as Invited/Keynote Speaker for 52 international and 17 National Conferences and Tutorials.

For more information please visit tab Head of Department at www.abm.p.lodz.pl

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Projects & Funding

  • Nonlinear vibrations of combined self-excited oscillators with parametric / auto-parametric excitation and non-ideal energy sources National Science Center
    2020 - 2024
  • Modeling and nonlinear dynamics of magneto-electro-mechanical systems National Science Center
    2018 - 2022
  • Modeling, kinematic-dynamic and simulation analysis of the exoskeleton prototype for the rehabilitation of people with lower limb movement disabilities National Science Center
    2016 - 2019
  • Mathematical modeling, analysis and numeric-analytical and control of mechanical hybrid systems with discrete and continuous emphasis on contact phenomena in three-dimensional space National Science Center
    2012 - 2016
  • Modeling and analysis of the dynamics and tribological processes in mechatronic system with friction clutch Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    2010 - 2010
  • Modeling and experimental studies strongly nonlinear processes in mechatronic systems with friction, impact, hysteresis and tribological phenomena National Science Center
    2010 - 2013
  • Mathematical modeling, simulation and control of nonlinear dynamic biodynamic processes and mechatronic experimental investigations Foundation for Polish Science
    2010 - 2012
  • Experimental research and numerical analysis of chaotic simple mechanical models Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    2003 - 2005
  • Numerical analysis and experimental self-excited oscillation of regular and chaotic in a system with two degrees of freedom from friction Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    2002 - 2004
  • Vibration analysis bifurcation and chaotic in a triple physical pendulum with body punches Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    2001 - 2003
  • Bifurcation and Chaos Control: Analytical and Numerical Investigations Council for International Exchange of Scholars
    2001 - 2001
  • Numerical analysis, static and dynamic model of the human spine Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    1997 - 1998
  • Analytical and numerical method of global analysis of deterministic discrete systems dynamics Ministry of Science and Higher Education
    1996 - 1997

Publications (1376)