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Andrzej Katunin
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简介：
Andrzej Katunin is an associate professor at the Silesian University of Technology, Poland, in the Department of Fundamentals of Machinery Design. He graduated with honors from the Silesian University of Technology in 2008 in the field of Mechanics and Machine Design. In 2012, he defended his doctoral dissertation with honors in the discipline of Mechanics, and in 2015 he obtained habilitation in the discipline of Machine Design and Operation in the field of non-destructive testing of materials at the same university. He established and leads the Structural Integrity Assessment Research Group. The main scientific interests of Prof. Katunin include problems of fatigue and fracture of composite materials, including thermal effects occurring in these processes, non-destructive testing of materials and methods of damage identification, methods of signal and image analysis applied to processing the results of non-destructive testing, multi-functional composite materials, e.g. for aircraft applications. He has gained experience through international research internships in Germany, France, Portugal, Slovakia, and China.
He has received numerous awards, including scholarships from the Minister of Science and Higher Education and the Foundation for Polish Science, as well as the POLITYKA scientific award and the Popularizer of Science award granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Polish Press Agency.
Currently he is a member of the Committee of Mechanics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and serves as vice-chair of the Polish Young Academy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the European Society for Composite Materials, the Polish Society of Composite Materials, and the Polish Society of Technical Diagnostics and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Mechanics of Composite Materials, Shock and Vibration, Journal of Composites Sciences, Diagnostyka, Journal of KONBiN.