Visiting Professors oraz Visiting Lecturers

Haitham Abu-Rub is a professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) and holds two PhDs. He was promoted to professor title in 2012 by Texas A&M University, USA.

Abu-Rub received two PhDs, one in electrical engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in 1995, and the second Ph.D. degree in humanities from Gdansk University, Poland, in 2004.

Abu-Rub has research and teaching experiences at many universities in many countries including Qatar, Poland, Palestine, USA, UK, and Germany. Abu-Rub has served for five years as the chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at TAMUQ and is serving as the managing director of the Smart Grid Center at the same university. His main research interests include power electronics converters, renewable energy systems, electric drives, and smart grid.

Abu-Rub is the recipient of many national and international awards and recognitions. He is the recipient of Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt scholarships. Abu-Rub has secured and successfully supervised and supervising many advanced research projects with over $20M funds. His research group contained many PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

Abu-Rub has published more than 600 journal and conference papers, two issued patents, seven books, and seven book chapters. He has offered numerous trainings for industry engineers, keynote speeches, and special courses for students. Dr. Abu-Rub is a Fellow of the IEEE and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Abu-Rub is a Fellow of IEEE and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Professor Jaromir Riha is an author or co-author of: more than 70 professional and scientific papers in journals, 44 indexed in Scopus (h index = 12), 38 in WOS (h index = 10); 26 monographs, textbooks and guidelines; more than 200 conference papers and contributions. 

He is an author or co-author of: more than 150 research (basic and applied) reports; about 60 technical studies and designs; more than 600 expert assessments; 51 forensic judgements. He belongs to several memberships, including: Internation Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Resarch (IAHR), International Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD), Chech Committee on Large Dams (ICOLD). 

He is teaching since 1987 resulting in more than 60 diploma graduates in BSc and MSc degrees and was a supervisor of 12 finished PhD students.

Matthias Bickelhaupt holds Chairs in Theoretical Chemistry at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, is Head of the VU Department of Chemistry & Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Chairman of the Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry. Since 2022, he has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Bickelhaupt is known for his work on developing theories and models of chemical bonding and reactivity, with applications in physical, (in)organic, and biological chemistry.

After obtaining his Ph.D. with Nico Nibbering (UvA) and Evert Jan Baerends (VU) in 1993, he worked with Paul von Ragué Schleyer (Erlangen), Tom Ziegler (Calgary), and Roald Hoffmann (Cornell), became an assistant professor in Marburg in 1997, and obtained tenure at VU Amsterdam in 1999.

Matthias Bickelhaupt received various prizes and honors, including the Dutch Research Council's VICI award, membership of the Royal Holland Society for Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), Chemistry Europe Fellow, and Member of Merit of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV). He has also been active in various organizational offices for science publishers (e.g., Editorial Advisory Boards) and funding agencies (e.g., ERC or NWO panels; NWO/ENW Tafel Chemie).

Przemyslaw Musialski is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA. His research in computer graphics focuses on geometric modeling, geometry processing, and digital fabrication combined with modern machine learning to create algorithmic solutions for digital content generation.

Before joining NJIT, he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria, where he also led the Computational Fabrication group at the Center for Geometry and Computational Design (GCD).

Prior to that, he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization in Vienna, a postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University, a postdoctoral associate at Computer Graphics at TU Wien, and a visiting research scientist at the Visual Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

He earned his MSc in Media Systems Science in 2007 from Bauhaus University Weimar and his PhD in Computer Science in 2010 from Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien).

Dr. Małgorzata Kozak is an academic specializing in EU, media and competition law with a robust academic and professional career. Currently she is working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht's School of Law. As Managing Editor of the Utrecht Law Review since 2021, she has played an important role in advancing legal scholarship.

Dr. Kozak's academic contributions encompass a vast array of publications, including books, journal articles, and legal commentaries, with a focus on competition law, media regulation, and EU antitrust policy.

Notably, she successfully represented a client before the EU General Court, securing a landmark ruling on judicial protection rights and competition law.

Her commitment to mentoring students has resulted in multiple award-winning theses.