Prof. Marian KAZMIERKOWSKI,
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Marian P. Kazmierkowski received the M.Sc., Ph.D. and Dr. Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics (ICIE), Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, in 1968, 1972, and 1981, respectively.
From 1967 to 1969 he was with Electrotechnical Institute, Warsaw-Miedzylesie, Poland and from 1969 to 1972 he was a PhD-Student at the Electrical Engineering Faculty, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. From 1972 to 1980 he was an Assistant Professor at ICIE, Warsaw. From 1980 to 1983, he was with RWTH Aachen, West Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. From 1987 to 2008, he was Director of the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology.
He was a Visiting Professor at many universities: NTH Trondheim, Norway, in 1986/87; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, in 1990; University of Padova, Italy, in 1993; Aalborg University, Denmark, in 1990 and 1995; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, in 1998; University of Nevada, Reno, USA, in 2000 and 2001; University of Bologna, Italy in 2004 and 2005; ENSEEIHT/LEEI Toulouse, France in 2006.
He was a Coordinating Professor of the International Danfoss Professor Program from 1996 to 2000 at the Aalborg University, Denmark. From 1996 to 2004 he was an elected Member of the State Committee for Scientific Research in Poland. He was also Director of the Centre of Excellence on Power Electronics and Intelligent Control for Energy Conservation - PELINCEC 2003 - 2005 (European Framework Program V) at ICIE, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
He is the author or co-author of over 350 technical papers and reports, as well as 13 books and textbooks. He co-authored (with H. Tunia) Automatic Control of Converter-Fed Drives (Elsevier, 1994) and co-edited (with R. Krishnan and F. Blaabjerg) and co-authored the compendium Control in Power Electronics (Academic Press, 2002).
Professor Kazmierkowski was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate degree from Aalborg University in 2004, an MISTRZ Grant of the Foundation of Polish Science - FNP (2001-2003), and the Dr Eugene Mittelmann Achievement Award by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2005. In 2007 he received SIEMENS Research Award. Since 2007 he is elected member of Polish Academy of Science (PAN).
He was Chairman of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics held in Warsaw, Poland. He has served as Vice-President for Publication, in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1999 to 2001). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS (January 2004- December 2006) as well as member of many IEEE Committees, Conference Organizing Committees. In 2007 he was General Co-Chair of the IEEE EUROCON 2007 conference held in Warsaw. Currently, he is Past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, Past-Chairman of the IEEE Poland Section, Chair of IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Committee, and Associate Editor of Bulletin of Polish Academy of Science, Technical Science.