Dr Grzegorz Zboinski was born in 1954 in Gdansk in Pomerania. In years 1973-1978 he studied at the Gdansk University of Technology, where in 1978 he was graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In years 1978-1979 he worked as a design engineer at the Technique Center of Shipbuilding Industry. From 1980 to 1982 he was a postgraduate student of machine dynamics at the Faculty of Mechanics at the Kielce University of Technology. In years 1983-1984 he performed his design duties at the Vehicle Institute of the same university.

Dr Zboinski started his academic career at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Gdansk University of Technology in 1986. In the period of 1989-1990 he was employed as a research engineer/advisor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas at Cuernavaca (Morelos) in Mexico. In 1991 he was awarded, with the mark of excellence, his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Gdansk University of Technology. In the year 1989 he was and since 1992 he has been employed permanently at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdansk. In years 1993-1994 he worked as a visiting researcher at the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. In 2002 he was awarded his D.Sc. degree in Solid Mechanics also at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery.

At present dr Zboinski works an associate professor at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2003 he has also been employed, as an associate professor, at the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. Since 2004 he has been granted the honor of the chair of Department of Mechanics and Machine Design at this university.

Dr Zboinski's interests are focused on various problems of applied mechanics, such as: solid mechanics, contact mechanics, vibration analysis as well as mechanical engineering problems such as dynamics of structures and machines and nonlinear analysis of technological objects. Dr Zboinski is a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

He is an author/coauthor of 135 scientific or technical papers and reports, including 18 published in top international scientific journals. He is also the author of 1 monograph, and of 3 large computer packages. He has also been a reviewer for such international scientific journals as: Computers and Structures and Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part C - Journal of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, as well as a manager and or main performer of numerous Polish and foreign research grants.

International research experience:

• 18-month contract as a research engineer/advisor at the Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca (Morelos), Mexico, 1988-1989
• 10-month Fulbright senior research grant, awarded by Center for International Exchange of Scholars, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mechanics, Austin (Texas), USA, 1993-1994
• 2-month TICAM faculty research grant, awarded by the Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin (Texas), USA, 1994

• Award of the Rector of the Gdansk University of Technology for scientific achievements, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
• Award of the Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology to industry commissioned works, 1987, 1988
• The mark of preference awarded to Ph.D. thesis, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Gdańsk University of Technology, 1991
• Recipient of the prestigious Fulbright research grant, US governmental agencies, 1993
• Biographical notes in Who's Who in the World, 14th-20th editions, 1997-2003, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 30th edition and the next ones, from 1998, as well as Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 8th edition, 2004
• Scientific Award of the Polish Academy of Sciences to monograph series of papers on contact problems of elasticity and elasto-plasticity, 1997
• Award of the Director of the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery for publications in prestigious international journals, 1999