Staff
D.Sc., Ph.D. Grzegorz Brus
Grzegorz Brus received his Ph.D. degree with honors from Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2011. The experimental part of his Ph.D. program he conducted under the bilateral agreement at Shibaura Insititute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. After receiving his Ph.D., he spent two successive years at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University, Japan. He also studied energy-related subjects at such research institutions as the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Brus is currently an associate professor at the Department of Fundamental Research in Energy Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland where he is leading a project “Easy-to-Assemble Stack Type (EAST): Development of solid oxide fuel cell stack for the innovation in the Polish energy sector,” financed by the Foundation for Polish Science co-financed by European Union under Regional Development Founds. He authored or co-authored over 75 papers in journals and international conferences. His current research interests include mathematical modeling, evolutionary computing, multiobjective optimization, and artificial neural networks and their application in distributed energy systems. Privately interested in Japanese culture and cycling.
MSc Szymon Buchaniec
Szymon Buchaniec received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in energy engineering from the AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST), Krakow, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in energy engineering and B.S. degree in applied computer science at AGH UST. His recent research interests include effective and modern programming and their application in physics. In the team, he is responsible for microstructure optimization using evolutionary computing and cellural automata simulation.
MSc Maciej Chalusiak
Maciej Chalusiak received B.Eng. in 2013 from Energy Engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland where he studied perovskite materials and their applications in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). In 2016, while remaining in the same faculty, he received M.Sc. degree in Computer Modeling for Energy Engineering Applications, defending his diploma thesis devoted to the numerical analysis of the operation of SOFC cells. In 2017 he received a distinction in the competition for the best master's thesis competition named: "AGH Diamonds." Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Fundamental Energy Problems at AGH and a member of the team in the First TEAM project of the Foundation for Polish Science. His research is aimed at developing modern techniques for the production of electrode materials for SOFCs by 3D printing using the Robocasting technology of producing objects using a computer-controlled building device.
MSc Marcin Pająk
Marcin Pająk has received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in energy engineering from the AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST), Krakow, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. He is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in energy engineering at AGH UST. His recent research include topics connected with steam reforming and fluid dynamics. Currently he is putting effort into optimization of the catalyst distribution in a steam reformer, using evolutionary algorithms. His scientific interests cover hydrogen technologies, optimization techniques and material engineering. Privately a dedicated sailor.
MSc Karol Śreniawski
Karol Śreniawski received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree from AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Mechanics field of study, in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The experimental research to his M.Sc. thesis he conducted partly at the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, during the scientific internship. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH. His research interests include executive technologies, CAD/CAM modeling, mechanics, strength of materials, hydraulics and pneumatics. Since June 2019 he is a member of the team in the FIRST-TEAM project, handling the engineering design and constructing of a fuel cell system. Privately a motorization and flying models freak.
Students
B.Eng. Marek Gnatowski
B.Eng. Marek Gnatowski received the B.Eng. in 2019 in Energy Engineering from the Energy and Fuels department, AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST) in Cracow. Currently, he is continuing his Master’s Degree in Computer Science with Software Development specialization. Employed in the FIRST-TEAM project from March 2019, his area of research is solving problems in the energy sector using artificial neural networks.
Alumni
Ph.D. Michał Wróbel
Michal Wrobel received his M.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. (Hons.) in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, the Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland in 2006 and 2010 respectively. In 2006 he received the medal ‘Primus Inter Pares’ for the best graduation in Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics. In 2017 he received a scholarship at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool. After his Ph.D. graduation, he worked as a computational engineer at EUROTECH LLC and from 2007 at Department of Mathematics, Aberystwyth University, The UK. During his fellowship at Aberystwyth University he worked on multiscale modeling on transport phenomena. From July 2017 until December 2018 a member of FIRST TEAM in Department of Fundamental Research in Energy engineering, Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Science and technology.
Ph.D. Marcin Moździerz
Marcin Moździerz received B.S. and M.S. degrees in energy engineering from AGH University of Science and Technolgy, Krakow, Poland in 2013 and 2014 respectively. His M.S. thesis has received several domestic awards in the field of hydrogen technologies. In 2019 he graduated with a double diploma Ph.D. program between AGH University of Science and Technology and Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include solid oxide fuel cell technology, steam reforming of hydrocarbon fuels, mathematical and numerical modeling of physical phenomena, and high-performance computing. In the team, he is responsible mainly for the development of a multiscale numerical model of EAST type SOFC stack.
MSc Tomasz Prokop
Mr Tomasz Prokop received a Bachelor of Engineering degree at Faculty of Energy and Fuels, AGH University of Science and Technology. He went on to complete an internship program at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Centre for Industrial Applications of Mathematics and Systems Engineering (CIAMSE). During the Internship, Mr Prokop worked on projects involving macroeconomics, insurance, field force management, and popularization of science. His professional interests include using numerical methods for solving transport problems in multiphase media, as well as implementing scanning electron microscopy imaging data in construction of realistic computational domains. Mr Prokop had participated in the EAST project since January 2017. In 2017 he received Master's of Engineering degree at the Department of Fundamental Research in Energy Engineering, AGH University of Science and Technology. Currently he is working on a PhD degree in energy engineering.
MSc Maciej Jaskiernik
Maciej Jaskiernik, B.Eng. graduated in 2016 from Faculty of Energy and Fuels AGH University of Science and Technology. Where he continued his study at specialization of Numerical Modeling in Energy Engineering, graduated in 2017. He finished an internship at Aviation Institute in Warsaw, where he conducted analyses of heat transfer inside ignition chambers of jet engines. His interests cover numerical modelling of heat transfer, fluid dynamics and chemical reactions. He conducted his work in FIRST-TEAM in 2017.