Tomasz Kapitaniak - Biography#

Tomasz Kapitaniak is professor of theoretical and applied mechanics and head of the Division of Dynamics at Lodz University of Technology since 1992. He was invited to deliver more than 100 plenary/symposia lectures and over 250 seminars and other talks worldwide. He is the member of editorial boards of a few journals and honorary editor of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. He has published over 300 research papers in the renowned journals from Clarivate Analitytics list, cited over 6000 times. His research is concentrated on nonlinear dynamics. The development of nonfeedback methods for chaos control, identification and description of new types of bifurcations, identification of the synchronization mechanism in coupled mechanical oscillators and the explanation of the origin of randomness in mechanical system are among his most important scientific discoveries. In 2013 he has been elected the member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has got Doctor Honoris Causa degrees at the Saratov State University (Russia) and Lublin University of Technology (Poland) respectively in 2001 and 2014.