!!Andrzej Jajszczyk - Biography
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Andrzej Jajszczyk is a professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland, and President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2011 to 2015 he served as the founding Director of the National Science Centre, a Polish research funding agency. He graduated from Poznan University of Technology. He was a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. He is the author or co-author of 12 books and over 300 research papers, as well as 19 patents in the areas of telecommunications switching, high-speed networking, network management and reliability, as well as of 60 papers on research funding and higher education. He has been a consultant to industry, telecommunications operators, and government agencies in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Poland, and the USA. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was the founding editor of IEEE Global Communications and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of China Communications. He serves on editorial boards of various reputed journals, including Annales des Télécommunications and Journal of Security and Telecommunications. In 2014 – 2015 he was a member of the Governing Board of Science Europe. He held important positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as: Director of Magazines, Director of Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region, Vice President – Technical Activities. Since January 2017 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC). He was a chair and co-chair of 13 international scientific conferences, a member of Scientific or Advisory Committees of 32 conferences, and a member of Technical Program Committees of over 100 conferences. He delivered 76 tutorials and invited talks and gave 14 keynote or plenary talks at scientific conferences. 
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In 2008, he received the IEEE Communication Society’s Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications. The same year he received the Foundation for Polish Science Award.\\
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Full CV: http://jajszczyk.pl/wp-content/uploads/A_Jajszczyk_CV_March_2017.pdf\\ \\