Born in 1962. He obtained his PhD and habilitation degrees in the discipline of materials engineering in 1996 and 2005, respectively, at the Silesian University of Technology, and the title of professor of technical sciences in 2015. He currently works at the Department of Biomaterials and Medical Device Engineering.
He specializes in the field of metal, ceramic, and polymer biomaterials, as well as implants used in particular in orthopedics, traumatology, and the circulatory system. He has been the dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering since 2020, a member of the Committee of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Center for Polymer and Carbon Materials of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2024 he has been the chairman of the University Council of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice.
His scientific interests include shaping the structure and physicochemical properties of biomaterials for implants used in various areas of medicine, materials for surgical instruments, testing the corrosion resistance of implants, examining the structure and physicochemical properties of bioceramics for dental prosthetics, and designing robotic rehabilitation devices.
His publication achievements include 235 scientific papers, authorship or co-authorship of 3 monographs, and 19 chapters in monographs published in Poland and abroad. So far, he has promoted 4 doctors. For his scientific, teaching, and organizational activities, he received the Bronze Cross of Merit, the Medal of the National Education Commission, 15 individual or team awards of the Rector of the Silesian University of Technology, and the badge of "Merit for the Silesian University of Technology".
He was involved in the establishment of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and the European HealthTech Innovation Center.
- dean of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
- head of the Department of Biomaterials and Medical Device Engineering
- chairman of the University Council of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice
- laureat of the Most Innovative Technology award – "5 Carrefour Europeen des technologies et de la competitivite" exhibition in Grenoble, 1996
- "Golden Key" - "The London International Inventions Fair", for the "Universal Plate Fixation Systems for Osteosynthesis: POLFIX and ZESPOL", 1997
- "Gold Medal" - exhibition "INPEX XIII America's Largest Invention Show", Pittsburgh for the "Universal Plate Fixation System for Osteosynthesis: POLFIX and ZESPOL with nanocrystalline diamonds coatings", 1997
- co-author of "Plate for osteotomy of the lower leg bone" - "Innowator Śląska 2011"
- co-author of "Stabilizer for surgical treatment of "pigeon" or "funnel-shaped" deformations of the anterior chest wall - "Innowator Śląska 2013"
- laureate of "Zabrzańska Atena" award in the "Medicine and Science" category, 2023
