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Cracow University of Technology
Faculty of Environmental and Power Engineering (FEPE)

The fields of study carried out at FEPE are related to reducing ecological footprint, water management, energy systems. CUT has experience in developing sustainable water management solutions for cities, such as a technology for waste recovery, processing, and revitalization of contaminated areas (POIR.04.01.02-00-0032/17), and a water supply network for collective systems water supply (POIR.04.01.04-00-0041/18).

In SmartFood CUT is responsible for water and wastewater technology, especially designing and implementing highly effective methods of water and wastewater treatment, water supply and sewage disposal, stormwater management, especially quality of rainwater.

Joanna Bąk, Ph.D., Eng.

Head of SmartFood research team at CUT

Her field of expertise is sanitary engineering within the field of water supply and sewerage, water and wastewater treatment. In addition, she is an expert on stormwater management including mitigation of the effects of climate change. She has been working as an academic teacher for 15 years. She was a member of research teams in several projects. She is the author/co-author of over 50publications. Since 2019, he has been a member of the FutureLab CUT Scientific Council.

Ph.D. engineer Stanisław M. Rybicki, prof. PK

Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy of the Cracow University of Technology. Author of studies for industry and manager of R&D projects. Civil engineer, water and wastewater technologist, circular economy expert. He verified the adopted solutions against the changing formal and technological requirements for alternative water sources in the project. As an expert, he supervised the use of rainwater for food production in multi-family blocks of flats and rainwater treatment.

Dr. Eng. Maciej Thomas

Dr. Maciej Thomas is an employee at the Department of Environmental Technologies, Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy, Cracow University of Technology, Poland. He is a specialist in industrial water and wastewater treatment with several years of practical experience. He is the author of over 60 scientific articles, numerous expert opinions, and industrial implementations. Dr. Thomas's research interests mainly concern the use of "green oxidants" to purify water and wastewater contaminated with heavy metal ions and organic compounds, especially pharmaceuticals. He is currently conducting research on the synthesis and use of potassium ferrate(VI) for the oxidation of toxic pollutants in industrial wastewater. Dr. Thomas's other research focus is on the synthesis and application of trithiocarbonic acid derivatives for the precipitation of heavy metal ions from wastewater from metal surface treatment plants and printed circuit board manufacturing facilities.

Ph.D. engineer Zbigniew Mucha, prof. PK

A graduate of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Energy at the Krakow University of Technology. He has been professionally associated with the Krakow University of Technology since 1992. He is employed as a professor at CUT since 2021. He has over 75 publications to his credit. At the request of industry and local government units, he performed over 200 design and conceptual works, and also prepared opinions and expertise regarding the expansion, modernization and operation of sewage treatment plants and sewage networks.

Dr. Eng. Kazimierz Piszczek

Dr. Eng. Krzysztof Głód

Dr. Eng. Tadeusz Żaba

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Krakow University of Technology. He completed several postgraduate studies, including MBA in Public Management organized by the Krakow School of Business at the University of Economics in Krakow. He combines his professional work at Wodociągi Miasta Krakowa S.A., where he is employed as a Production Director, with scientific and teaching activities at the Krakow University of Technology - Faculty of Environmental and Energy Engineering. During the construction of the Waste Thermal Processing Plant, he was employed at Krakowski Holding Komunalny S.A. as Start-up Director, and then as Deputy Director of ZTPO.

Małgorzata Wojdak, B.A.

Senior Administration Specialist

Małgorzata is a graduate of the University of Management and Banking in Krakow, and has twenty-five years of experience in running the secretariat of the Department of Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Monitoring at the Krakow University of Technology. She brings her competences and experience in administration to SmartFood. She is responsible for the register of letters, financial handling of invoices, delegations, registration of services in the Central Register of Contracts and forwarding documentation to the International Project Settlement Team. She is involved in preparing documentation for internal audit and e-mail correspondence.

Eng. Katarzyna Mierzwa

Senior Technical Specialist

Katarzyna is a graduate of the Faculty of Metal Engineering and Industrial Computer Science of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In the SmartFood project, she was responsible for preparing orders in accordance with the provisions of the Public Procurement Law and their implementation, keeping documentation of fixed assets purchased as part of the project, controlling current expenses and e-mail correspondence.

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