Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

Graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Gdansk University of Technology (1948), doctor of Warsaw University of Technology (1954), assistant professor to the Polish Academy of Sciences (1955), associate professor (1963). He worked at IPPT in 1954-1957 and 1960 (between these years, he worked at the Military University of Technology). Head of the Laboratory of Theory of Electromagnetic Fields at the Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering, and since 1964, acting Head of the Department of Theory of Communications. An outstanding specialist in the field of theory and application of electromagnetic waves (asymptotic properties, impact waves, propagation in ionized media, radiation, antennas, waveguides, and transmission lines). Lecturer, constructor of ARAL analogue machine - one of the first three mathematical machines in Poland. Organizer of a conference on the theory of electromagnetic waves. Since 1954, he was the Secretary of Polski Komitet Narodowy URSI, Międzynarodowa Unia Nauk Radiowych (URSI Polish National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science). Founder, member and secretary-general to PTETiS (Polskie Towarzystwo Elektrotechniki Teoretycznej i Stosowanej – Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrotechnics, established in 1961). Author of over 40 scientific publications, including a monograph - Metody analiz pól elektromagnetycznych (Methods of analyses of electromagnetic fields), supervisor of 10 doctoral dissertations.

Aviation Engineer, graduate (1929) and researcher at the Warsaw University of Technology (1939-1945). His research in analytical mapping and the use of conformal mapping resulted in receiving a doctorate in 1931 and habilitation in 1934. Corresponding member (1954) and then member (1966) of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1946, professor at the Silesian University of Technology, where responsible for the initiation of technical studies. Since 1952, professor at the Department of Aerodynamics at WUT, and since 1955, at the Department of Aerohydrodynamics of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Warsaw. Organizer and Head of the Department of the Mechanics of Fluids and Gases at IPPT PAN (1953-1961). Initiator of the first scientific conferences devoted to the issues and methods in liquid mechanics, later transformed into international biennial symposia. Author of 50 scientific papers, most of which were devoted to the methods of analyzing aerodynamic fields in spatial, non-stationary compressible flows. Author of the unified theory of simple and double waves in gas dynamics and mathematical bases for the description of inviscid compressible flows.

Graduate of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the University of Warsaw (1952). Since 1956 - a doctoral student of the Leningrad State University (currently called the Saint Petersburg State University) supervised by an outstanding Soviet mathematician, Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya. He received the habilitation degree in 1963 at the UW Department of Mathematics and Physics, where in 1971 he became associate professor and in 1988, professor. An outstanding mathematician in partial differential equations and their application. In 1955-2000 he worked, and later headed, the Department of Equations of Mathematical Physics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw (MIM UW). Co-founder, and later (1987-1993) director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at the above-mentioned Faculty of MIM UW. In 1956-1961 and 1964-1972 he worked at the Laboratory of Fluids and Gases of IPPT PAN. Simultaneously to his work at IPPT PAN, he regularly lectured at UW (lectures, seminars, practical classes). He supervised eight Doctors of Science, including three at IPPT PAN. Since 1967 - member of the Polish Mathematical Society; since 1991 - member of the Scientific Council of Juliusz Pawel Schauder Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Professor Burnat was also a member of the Editorial Committee of the Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis published by J. P. Schauder CBN.

Graduate of the Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering (1942). From 1953 to 1962 at the Department of Analogy IPPT, which he headed. Again at IPPT since 1974- head of the Department of Aeroacoustics. He received the doctoral degree (PhD) in 1959, habilitation degree (DSc) in 1965, 1972 – associate professor degree, 1980 – professor degree. Author of over 100 scientific papers in the fields related to aerodynamic sound generation, industrial noise reduction, interior acoustics, theory of acoustic screens, sound source identification and acoustic energy transmission paths. Organizer of numerous international conferences, including 2nd FASE Congress and INTER-NOISE'79. Long-term Secretary of Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Acoustics, co-founder of PTA (Polish Acoustical Association). Creator and editor-in-chief (since 1966) of the Archiwum Akustyki (renamed to the ‘Archives of Acoustics’ in 1974).