Prof. Marian P.

Kazmierkowski
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 the Electrotechnical Institute, Warsaw-Miedzylesie, Poland.
From 1972 to 1980, he was an Assistant Professor with ICIE. Then, from 1980 to 1983, he
was with RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, as an Alexander von Humboldt
Fellow. From 1987 to 2008, he was the Director of ICIE. From 1996 to 2000, he was a
Coordinating Professor of the International Danfoss Professor Program with Aalborg University, Aalborg,
Denmark. From 1996 to 2004, he was an Elected Member of the State Committee for Scientic
Research, Poland. He was also the Director of the European Centre of Excellence on Power Electronics
and Intelligent Control for Energy ConservationPELINCEC 20032006 at ICIE.
He is the author or coauthor of over 350 technical papers and reports, as well as 13 books and
textbooks. He coauthored Automatic Control of Converter-Fed Drives (Elsevier, 1994) and coedited (with
R. Krishnan and F. Blaabjerg) and coauthored the compendium Control in Power Electronics (Academic,
2002).
Prof. Kazmierkowski was the Chairman of the 1996 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial
Electronics held in Warsaw. He has served as Vice President for Publication in the IEEE Industrial
Electronics Society (19992001). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL
ELECTRONICS (20042006), as well as a member of many IEEE committees, particularly conference
organizing committees. In 2007, he was a General Cochair of the IEEE EUROCON 2007 conference held
in Warsaw. He is currently the Past-Chairman of the IEEE Poland Section and an Associate Editor of
Bulletin of the Polish Academy of SciencesTechnical Sciences. He was the recipient of an Honorary
Doctorate degree from Aalborg University in 2004 and the Dr.-Ing. Eugene Mittelmann Achievement
Award by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 2005. In 2007, he received the SIEMENS Research
Award in Poland. Since 2007, he has been an Elected Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland