Przemysław Sękalski, PhD Eng, has combined electronics, physics and computing for over 25 years. His master’s work was a micromachined pressure sensor at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse; his PhD — awarded with honours in 2006 — covered Lorentz-force compensation systems for superconducting resonant cavities at DESY in Hamburg. He has worked with CERN, Cornell University, INFN and CEA.
Since 2014 he has headed the IT Centre at Lodz University of Technology and lectures at the Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science. With the teams he led he co-founded technology companies: Open-RnD (Booksy, iTaxi), Smart Soft Solutions, Simple Machine Learning, myHydro and Lark AI Solutions.
He is an NCBR expert and the author of the “National Specialisation Framework”, a coach in the Innovation Coach programme and a mentor at EIT Health InnoStars and Top Minds. He studied research commercialisation at Stanford Center for Professional Development and IESE Business School.