Ms Katarzyna Majewska was born in 1979 in Gdansk. She studied biomedical physics at the University of Gdansk in years 1998-2004. In 2004 she obtained her M.Sc. degree in physics from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics. Her thesis was connected with optical holography.

In 2005, for 6 months, she was a trainee at the Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot. She worked at the Marine Hydrodynamics Departament in the Air Sea Interaction Laboratory as a physicist invloved in analysis of aerosol and meteorological data collected in recent years. Twice she took part in a cruise of r/v Oceania.

In September 2005 she joined the Mechanics of Intelligent Strucutres Department group at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery. In 2010 she obtained a Ph.D. title in Mechanics. Her thesis title is: 'The influence of activation of Magnetic Shape Memory (MSM) actuators on certain dynamic characteristics of structures'.

Her scientific interests are mainly focused on the use of multi-functional materials (primarily magnetic shape memory alloys) for static and dynamic behaviour control of various structures and also on the application of the fibre optic sensors for structural health monitoring.

International research experience:

• 1-week, NATO Project meeting, University of Glasgow and Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK, 2007
• Short Course on Active Vibration Control, INSACAST Lyon, France, 2007
• 17th IC on Computer Methods in Mechanics , Lodz - Spala, Poland, 2007
• 7th Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS), Torino, Italy, 2007
• 3rd ECCOMAS Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART), Gdansk, Poland, 2007
• Euromech 458 Colloquim, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 2008
• Advanced Summer Course on Structural Health Monitoring, Krakow, Poland, 2008
• 4th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Krakow, Poland, 2008
• Advanced Course on New Trends in Vibration Based Structural Health Monitoring, Udine, Italy, 2008
• 4th ECCOMAS Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART), Porto, Portugal, 2009
• 7th IC on Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis (MPSVA), Cambridge, UK, 2009

• 2001/2002 and 2003/2004 Scholarships granted by the Rector of Gdansk University