Prof. Marek Amanowicz

Marek Amanowicz is a graduate of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. He received his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in 1978 and 1990, respectively, and the title of professor of technical sciences in 2001. From 1973 to 2017, he worked at the Military Academy of Technology, serving, among other positions, as Head of the Institute of Telecommunication Systems (1990-1993), Dean of the Department of Electronics (1993-1996) and Vice-Rector for Science (1996-2002). In 2002, he left the professional military service with the rank of colonel and continued his scientific work at WAT as a professor and at the Military Communications Institute (until 2011) as Head of the C4I Systems Department. From 2003 to 2005, Prof. Amanowicz worked in the TACONE international consortium in Paris coordinating the work of experts from France (Thales), Canada (GDC), Portugal (EID), and Turkey (Aselsan), related to system verification and validation of the NATO standard. From 1999 to 2017, he was Poland’s chief representative on the Information Systems Technology (IST) Panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO), including vice chairman of the IST Panel from 2003 to 2008, as well as manager of a number of STO technical programs. From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the international organization AFCEA (Fairfax, Virginia), and from 2008 to 2015 he was Vice Chairman of the Polish National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been an elected member of the Committee on Electronics and Telecommunications of the Polish Academy of Sciences continuously since 1994. Prof. Amanowicz has led many national and international research programs. He has also given invited lectures, including to participants in the Senior Course at the NATO Defense College in Rome. He was the supervisor of 16 doctoral dissertations ending in the awarding of doctoral degrees. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Polish and foreign scientific journals: International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, Scientific Journal Science & Military, and International Scientific Journal MTA Review.

Since 2017, Prof. Marek Amanowicz has been an employee of the Research and Academic Computer Network, serving initially as head of the Network Control Department and currently as advisor to the NASK Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs.