Włodzisław Duch

Włodzisław Duch graduated in physics from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in 1977 (with a "blue diploma"), and defended his PhD in quantum chemistry, which was awarded by the minister, three years later. From 1980-82, he conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. From 1985-87, he was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, with which he collaborated until 2001. His monograph Graphical Representation of Model Spaces (Springer, 1986) was the basis for his habilitation defended in 1987. He received the title of professor in 1997. He has worked numerous times in France, Japan, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and the USA as a "Visiting Professor". From 1991 to 2014, he headed the Department of Applied Informatics (initially called the Department of Computer Methods), an interdisciplinary independent unit at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Since 2013, he has been leading the Neurocognitive Laboratory at the Interdisciplinary Center for Modern Technologies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, and since 2020, the Neuroinformatics and Artificial Intelligence team, part of the University Centre of Excellence Dynamics, Mathematical Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. In 2012, he took up the position of Vice-Rector for Research and Computerization at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, and from 2014-15 he served as the Undersecretary of State (Deputy Minister) at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.