Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

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).