Team


	Aleksander Weron Director Office: room A.3.26 ORCID : 0000-0002-8584-9876 Webpage I am a full professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at WUST and I have been awarded in 2021 the status of professor magnus for scientific excellence. I am also the head of the Hugo Steinhaus Center for Stochastic Methods. I am the author or editor of 13 books and have published over 145 research papers on probability theory, stochastic processes, and their applications to physics, biology, and economy. My recent research interests include anomalous diffusion, ergodicity testing, fractional dynamics, and molecule imaging.
	Krzysztof Burnecki Executive Director Office: room A.3.24 ORCID : 0000-0002-1754-4472 Webpage I received my Ph.D. degree in 1999 in Mathematics from the WUST. I am the Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics. My research interests include stochastic modelling, computational statistics, heavy-tailed models, time series analysis, insurance mathematics, and mathematical (bio)physics. I am the Editor-in-Chief of BioPhysMath, and Associate Editor of Computational Statistics, Mathematica Applicanda, EMS Magazine, and ICIAM Dianoia.
	Marcin Magdziarz Executive Director Office: room A.2.7 ORCID : 0000-0002-2239-7155 Webpage In 2011 I received the D.Sc. degree (habilitation) in mathematics, WUST. In 2020 I obtained the title of professor. I am currently the Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics. I am a member of the Mathematical Committee of Polish Academy of Science, member of the Committee of Complex Systems, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and member of the Senate of WUST. My area of interest includes: probability theory, stochastic processes, statistical physics (complex systems and anomalous diffusions), stochastic modelling and statistical analysis of real life data, applications of mathematics in medicine, physics, biology, and finance.
	Janusz Szwabiński Office: room A.2.6 ORCID : 0000-0002-6992-3634 Webpage I obtained my M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Wrocław, Poland, and Ph.D. in Natural Science from Saarland U in Saarbruecken, Germany. I held postdoctoral positions at the Wrocław U, Poland, and the Geneva U, Switzerland. I am currently the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics at WUST and the chair of the Polish chapter of the European Service Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation. I am mainly interested in complex systems and have a track record in multidisciplinary research, with applications in statistical physics, biology, social science, and economy.
	Marek Teuerle Office: room A.3.25 ORCID : 0000-0002-1640-8823 Webpage I obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 2013 from WUST. Currently, I am assistant professor at the Faculty of Pure and Applied Mathematics at WUST. My research interests include Lévy walks, anomalous diffusion, numerical methods for fractional derivatives, insurance mathematics, risk theory, reinsurance pricing, life insurance mathematics, financial mathematics, computational statistics. I am a vice-chair of the ECMI Educational Committee and a treasurer at Wrocław branch of Polish Mathematical Society. I have 5+ years of experience in the actuarial profession gained while working for various Polish insurance companies and brokers.
	Agnieszka Wyłomańska Office: room A.3.20 ORCID : 0000-0001-9750-1351 Webpage I received the M.Sc. degree in Financial and Insurance Mathematics from Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (WUST) and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from WUST In 2015 I received D.Sc. degree in mining and geology from the Faculty of Geoengineering, Mining and Geology, WUST My interests relate to the heavy-tailed distributed time series, stochastic modeling and statistical analysis of real data. I cooperate with industrial companies, such as KGHM, Nokia, etc.
	Zbigniew Palmowski Office: room A.3.10 ORCID : 0000-0001-9257-1115 Webpage I am interested in applied probability focusing on questions regarding exit times of stochastic processes and applying these results in ruin theory, financial mathematics, optimisation and queuing theories. I have written over 100 publications and I have been the leading scientist on a number of Polish and international grants. I have given numerous talks and plenary lectures at international conferences and seminars. I was the AE of SPA, JAP, AAP and have served on editorial boards of EUAJ, Risks, JFRM, Appl. Math. and Stoch. Mod. I received the PMS Hugo Steinhaus Prize and Minister Award for significant scientific achievements. I participated in a number of projects run with Philips, Xerox, banks and insurance companies.
	Krzysztof Szajowski Office: room A.3.17 ORCID : 0000-0001-9834-9929 Webpage I graduated at Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology at WUST, specialising in mathematics, and earned my M.Sc. in 1973. I furthered my academic journey by obtaining a Ph.D. from the Scientific Council of IM WUST in 1980 followed by habilitation in mathematical sciences at FFPT in 1996. In 2014, I was honoured with the title of professor in mathematics. My current areas of research encompass applied mathematics emphasise on stochastic modelling with a focus on change point detection, optimal process control, as well as game theory models. I am passionate about applied mathematics, philosophy and history.
	Joanna Janczura Office: room A.3.23 ORCID : 00000-0001-6110-3394 Webpage I received my M.Sc. degree in Financial and Insurance Mathematics from Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (WUST) as well as in Economathematics under the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry Program at WUST. In 2012 I received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics based on the thesis " Stochastic modeling of prices in the energy market". I am mainly interested in modelling and prediction of real-life phenomena, including but not limited to electricity markets, biophysics and engineering.
	Jakub Ślęzak Office: room A.3.22 ORCID : 0000-0002-0683-2831 Webpage I obtained M.Sc. degrees from physics and mathematics and continued studying both subjects during PhD conducted in the cooperation between the Mathematical Institute at WUST and Institute of Physics at Potsdam U (Germany). I am interested in stochastic modelling of complex systems in physics and biology. In particular, I use and develop random processes with complicated (e.g. power law) memory structure and/or heteroscedastic features which are useful for describing dynamics in inhomogeneous media such as protein diffusion in living cells.
	Michał Balcerek Office: room A.3.23 ORCID : 0000-0003-3637-5501 Webpage I hold a M.Sc. in financial and actuarial mathematics, which I earned in 2012, followed by a Ph.D. in mathematics attained in 2018, both at WUST. Subsequently, in 2021, I pursued a postdoctoral position at the U of Birmingham, UK, focusing on the application of machine learning models to analyse biological experiments. My primary research interests lie in leveraging stochastic models and methods, particularly in addressing physical and financial challenges.
	Łukasz Płociniczak Office: room A.3.20 ORCID : 0000-0003-0005-4845 Webpage My main points of interest are associated with partial differential equations, mathematical modelling, and numerical methods. Currently, my research revolves around nonlocal operators, their analysis, and discretization. However, I have also worked on modelling in medicine, hydrology, climate science, optics, sensor technology, biomechanics, physics of sports, and capillary phenomena.
	Monika Muszkieta Office: room A.3.25 ORCID : 0000-0003-1001-9875 Webpage I received Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Technical University in Kaiserslautern in 2007. In 2003-2007, I was a scholarship student at Image Processing Department of Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern. Area of my interest is in mathematical methods in image processing, inverse problems in medical imaging, applications of variational calculus, and inverse problems related to particle tracking.
	Piotr Kowalczyk Office: room A.3.19 ORCID : 0000-0001-8238-245X Webpage I obtained M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication from WUST (1999), and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the U of Bristol (2003), UK. My main research interests cover numerical and analytical bifurcation analysis of dynamical systems of relevance to engineering, biology and biomechanics. I am also interested in singularly perturbed dynamical systems and the dynamics of slow-fast systems with discontinuities of relevance to applications in neuronal modelling and mathematical biology. I have an interdisciplinary track record, which I gained as a member of an EU funded SICONOS project while being a postdoc at the U of Bristol, and as a member of CICADA centre based at the U of Manchester, also during my postdoctoral research.