Directors of Institutes

Janusz Sitek
He has 14 years of experience in managing human resources teams at, among others, the Research Centre for Electronic Technologies and numerous interdisciplinary international projects.

Adam Zielinski
Director Lukasiewicz – GIT. For more than 20 years he has been associated with the institute (former: Lukasiewicz – IMŻ) going through successive levels of scientific and professional career. As of March 2018. He served as director of Lukasiewicz – IMŻ until December 2022.

Marlena Maślanka
Ph.D. in economics. Associated with the institute since 2008. Specialises in the fields of economics, accounting and management.

Sebastian Wydra
A manager with 20 years of professional experience in operational management. He specialises in optimising internal processes from a functional and cost perspective. He has

Paweł Pichniarczyk
He has worked at the institute since 1995, progressing through the stages of his scientific and managerial career. Since 2018, he has been the director of the institute.

Iwona Szwach
A professor of technical sciences. She specialises in ecotoxicological research and analyses related to environmental protection. She became the Director of Łukasiewicz – ICSO “Blachownia” on 1 April 2020.

Piotr Szynkarczyk
Associated with Łukasiewicz – PIAP since 1993. He holds a habilitation granted by the Scientific Council of the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Barbara Juszczyk
Associated with the institute since 2006. Director of the institute since 2019. Ph.D. in technical sciences in material engineering.

Jakub Gadek
He has managed numerous teams. He worked as a coordinator of science and technology at the National Science Centre in Krakow. The Director of the institute since February 2020.

Witold Luty
Director of the institute since 2018. He is a specialist in the field of experimental and simulation testing of vehicles. He gained extensive professional experience during many years of work at the Military University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology and the Military Institute of Armour and Automotive Technology.

Piotr Guzdek
Graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD degree in physics from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science at AGH. He has been affiliated with the Institute since 2008, where he started as an assistant, then progressed through the various levels of his career from head of the laboratory and research facility to acting director of the Institute.

Ewa Śmigiera
Manager and scientist. Director of Łukasiewicz – Institute of Industrial Chemistry.

Renata Żyłła
She has been with the Institute since 2000. She began her career as a specialist and worked her way up the career ladder from Assistant

Rafał Cichy
He has worked at the TABOR Rail Vehicle Institute (now Łukasiewicz – PIT) since 1997, starting as a senior design assistant. In May 2023, he

Leszek Kwieciński
In academic and practical terms, he is involved in two scientific areas. The first is innovation policy and systems in terms of multi-level governance with

Jarosław Bosy
Since December 2015, he held the position of full professor at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics at the Wrocław University of Life Sciences. From

Damian Gąsiorek
He managed many teams and has been involved in research and development work concerning Industry 4.0 technologies for more than 10 years. A co-author and