Wojciech Kowalczyk

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wojciech Kowalczyk serves as Professor of Mechanics/Biomechanics and Chairholder of the Chair of Mechanics and Robotics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, a position he has held since November 2007.

His academic journey includes:

• University of Duisburg-Essen (since 11/2007): Chair of Mechanics and Robotics, Professor for Mechanics/Biomechanics
• Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (10/2006 - 11/2007): Group Leader in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Theoretical Process Fluid Mechanics
• Technical University of Munich (10/2004 - 09/2006): Group Leader in Fluid Mechanics; awarded Doctoral Degree (Dr.-Ing.) in July 2004
• Koszalin University of Technology (Poland) (10/1997 - 07/2001): Research Associate at Chair of Control System; received Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in July 1997

Professor Kowalczyk's research spans critical domains including Biomechanics, Biofluid mechanics, Thermo-fluid mechanics, Multiphase flow (with phase changes and particle dynamics), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD), Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), and High Performance Computing (HPC), emphasizing advanced simulation techniques for complex engineering challenges.

He actively teaches core courses such as Mechanics 1-3, Biomechanics, Biofluidmechanics, and Finite Element Method across semesters while leading the Computational Sciences and Simulation (CSS) research group and contributing to the Center for Energy Research (CER.UDE).