18 Notable alumni of
Lodz University of Technology
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The Lodz University of Technology is 1523rd in the world, 525th in Europe, and 31st in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from the Lodz University of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Adam Kszczot
- Occupations
- middle-distance runnerrunnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Adam Piotr Kszczot is a retired Polish middle-distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres. His achievements include silver medals at the 2015 and 2017 World Championships in Athletics, gold at the 2018 World Indoor Championships as well as silver and bronze at the 2014 and 2010 World Indoor Championships respectively. Kszczot won three gold medals in the 800 m at both the European Outdoor and Indoor Championships. He twice competed at the Olympic Games, in 2012 and 2016, narrowly missing the final on both occasions.
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Marek Niedźwiecki
- Occupations
- journalistradio personality
- Biography
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Marek Wojciech Niedźwiecki is a Polish music journalist and radio anchor.
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Hanna Zdanowska
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hanna Elżbieta Zdanowska is a Polish politician. Zdanowska is a member of the Civic Platform and the current city mayor of Łódź since 13 December 2010.
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Dariusz Joński
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dariusz Joński is a Polish politician and local government official who has been serving as a member of the Sejm since 2019. Elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2024.
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Jacek Karpiński
- Enrolled in the Lodz University of Technology
- Studied in 1946-1948
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistresistance fighter
- Biography
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Jacek Karpiński was a Polish pioneer in computer engineering and computer science.
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Tomasz Trela
- Occupations
- local politicianpolitician
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Tomasz Trela is a Polish politician serving as a member of the Sejm since 2019. From 2014 to 2019, he served as deputy mayor of Łódź.
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Kajetan Duszyński
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Kajetan Duszyński is a Polish sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented his country in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2017 World Championships reaching the final, as well in the mixed 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics where Poland won gold medal.
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Krzysztof Wilmanski
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Krzysztof Wilmanski was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics.
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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
- Occupations
- university teacherchemical technologistengineerchemist
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Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made.
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Paweł Bejda
- Occupations
- Esperantistpolitician
- Biography
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Paweł Jan Bejda is a Polish politician. From 2015 he has served as a member of the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament. Previously, from 2012 through 2014, he had been the appointed deputy governor of one of Poland’s 16 provinces, the central voivodeship of Łódź.
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Anita Sowińska
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anita Sowińska is a Polish economist and politician. Since December 2023, she has been undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Climate and Environment. She is a member of the New Left, and was previously a board member of Spring, a centre-left party.
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Janusz Pęcherz
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Janusz Andrzej Pęcherz is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Kalisz. He graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology. In 2002, he was elected president of Kalisz. In the 2006 local government elections, he successfully ran for re-election, running with the support of several local parties and winning the first round. In 2010, he again won the third term in the first round with about 51% of the vote. In 2014, he was not re-elected for another term. In 2018, he was appointed a city councilor in Kalisz, and then became the head of the city council.
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Marek Czekalski
- Occupations
- textile engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Marek Czekalski was a Polish politician and engineer. He served as Mayor of Łódź from 1994 to 1998.
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Zdzisław Pawlak
- Enrolled in the Lodz University of Technology
- 1947-1949 studied power engineering
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Zdzislaw I. Pawlak was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist. He was affiliated with several organization, including the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Warsaw School of Information Technology. He served as the Director of the Institute of Computer Science at the Warsaw University of Technology (1989–96). Pawlak was known for his contribution to many branches of theoretical computer science. He is credited with introducing the rough set theory and also known for his fundamental works on it. He also introduced the Pawlak flow graphs, a graphical framework for reasoning from data. He was conferred with Order of Polonia Restituta in 1999. He was also a full member of Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Andrzej Górak
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- engineeruniversity teacherchemist
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Andrzej Górak is a Polish process engineer and the Head of Laboratory of Fluid Separations at the Department of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering at the TU Dortmund University.
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Wiesław Dobkowski
- Occupations
- politician
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Wiesław Józef Dobkowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Piotrków Trybunalski. He was also elected to the 11th term.
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Jan Krysiński
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- physicistengineer
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Jan Eugeniusz Krysiński is a Polish scientist, specializing in fluid mechanics and turbomachinery research, and former rector of Lodz University of Technology.
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Tomasz Ganicz
- Enrolled in the Lodz University of Technology
- In 1991 studied chemistry
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Tomasz Ganicz, ps. Polimerek, is a Polish chemist, doctor habilitas of chemical sciences and professor extraordinarius at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. He was the president of Wikimedia Polska (2007–2018).
