What can a FTIMS graduate do? | Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics at the Gdańsk University of Technology

Michał T. Lewandowski graduated Technical Physics with a specialization in Physics and Energy Conversion Techniques in 2012. His engineering thesis entitled “Analysis of utilization conditions of small wind turbines” was written in 2011 under dr. hab Ewa Klugmann-Radziemska supervision at the Faculty of Chemistry. The first semester of his master’s programme, he has spent in Trondheim at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as an ERASMUS exchange student. The master thesis was entitled “Heat transfer modelling in the building construction elements with the Boundary Element Method” and has been written at the Department of Atomic Physics and Luminescence under the supervision of dr. Sebastian Bielski.

He has received the diploma eight months later after the backpack trip around Europe, India, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, from which journey notes can be read in www.gdzienasnosi.blogspot.com.

Since autumn 2013, he has worked as a research assistant in the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk at the Department of Multiphase Flows, where he has worked on modelling of turbulent reactive flows. The main goal was to develop numerical models within Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) adequate for modern combustion regimes simulations.

He has spent few months on scientific internships at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim (2015)  and Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels (2017). He has engaged himself in science popularization events by taking part in the Baltic Festival of Science, and in the years 2014-2017, he has organized sci-tech competition EKOTECH dedicated to high school students whose aim was to design, construct and test small wind turbines.

He has received the degree of doctor of Technological Sciences in the field of Mechanics defending the PhD thesis entitled “Development of turbulent combustion models in MILD regime” in January 2019, supervised by prof. dr. hab. Jacek Pozorski.

In 2019 he started a postdoc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering in Trondheim. His research focuses on numerical investigations of combustion and utilization of new generation fuels needed in the process of decarbonization.

This article is a part of #studiowalinaFTIMS – a press series, which aims at presenting the alumni of Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics to a broader audience.

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1. Michał T. Lewandowski obecnie, archiwum prywatne / eng. Michał T. Lewandowski nowadays, private archives
2. Michał T. Lewandowski w czasach studenckich, archiwum prywatne / eng. Michał T. Lewandowski in his student years, private archives