Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

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 Civil and Hydraulic Engineering (1951). Professor Sokołowski received the doctoral degree in 1955, assistant professor (‘docent’) in 1957, associate professor in 1961 and professor in 1971. In 1952-1997 – at IPPT PAN. In 1960-1963 he headed the division of Solids Mechanics at the IPPT PAN Department of Continuum Mechanics, the Department of Theory of Continuous Media, IPPT PAN deputy director for research (1963-1970). Since 1993 – deputy chair of the IPPT PAN Scientific Council and from 1995 to 1998 – the chair. Editor-in-Chief of the Archiwum Mechaniki Stosowanej (Archives of Applied Mechanics, 1982-1998), Rozprawy Inżynierskie (Engineering Transactions, 1986-1998). Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing Editorial Committee of a 10-volume Encyklopedia Mechaniki Technicznej (Encyclopedia of Technical Mechanics), co-author and editor of volume IV: Sprężystość (Elasticity). Author of over 60 papers on the theory of elasticity, especially anisotropic media and panels, thermal stress and thermoelasticity, torque stress theory, cracking and crack propagation theory in continuous media. Supervisor of 6 doctoral theses. Honored with the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1974) and the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, (1979).