Mr Tomasz Wandowski was born 1980 in Tczew - a town of Kociewie. In years 2000-2005 he studied at the Gdansk University of Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. The title of his M.Sc. thesis was "Modelling dynamics of the working head of an underwater robot for ship hull cleaning". In August 2005 he joined the Mechanics of Intelligent Structures Department group at the Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery.

His scientific interests primarily are focused on the damage detection, localization and identification in aircraft structures based on elastic wave propagation method, development and optimisation of sensor networks for damage detection in structures, signal processing, the use of multi-functional materials for shape and vibration control and energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials.

Tomasz Wandowski is a coauthor of a patent application entitled "Method and device for damage localisation in structural elements" (ref. no. P 386233).

International research experience:

• 1-week, NATO Project, University of Glasgow and Strathclyde University Glasgow, UK, 2007
• 1-week, Course: Advanced Lecture Series on Structural Health Monitoring, University of Siegen, Institute of Mechatronics, Germany, 2007
• 1-week, Course: New Trends in Vibration Based Structural Health Monitoring, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, 2008
• 7th Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS), Torino, Italy, 2007
• 4th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Krakow, Poland, 2008
• 8th Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS), Beijing, China, 2009
• 7th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, California, USA, 2009

• He has been awarded the Young Researcher Award at the 8th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures (DAMAS 2009), Beijing, China