**About the Editors**

## **Tomasz Garbowski**

Tomasz Garbowski, Ph.D., Eng., is currently working as an associate professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering at the Poznan University of Life Sciences. In 2010, he obtained a doctorate at the Politecnico di Milano at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 2020, he obtained a postdoctoral degree at the Poznan University of Technology at the Faculty of Civil and ´ Transport Engineering. Prof. Dr. Tomasz Garbowski is an expert in the field of engineering structures, and he has over 20 years of experience in numerical modeling and optimization of various structures. At the same time, following the path of science and technology, he managed (1) to develop advanced, theoretical computational techniques and algorithms for estimating the compressive strength of various structures and (2) to design/patent several laboratory devices. In his professional career, he was associated with the Poznan University of Technology, Lund University and Politecnico di Milano. He shared his knowledge and experience at over 50 national and international conferences. He is also the author/co-author of over 50 publications in international journals.

#### **Tomasz Gajewski**

Tomasz Gajewski, Ph.D., Eng., works at the Poznan University of Technology as an assistant professor in the Institute of Structural Analysis. In 2011, he graduated from this university in the field of construction, specializing in structural engineering. In 2018, he defended his doctorate at Poznan University of Technology in biomechanics. His doctoral dissertation won the competition in computational mechanics for doctoral dissertations announced by the Polish Society of Computer Methods in Mechanics. He has presented at many scientific conferences in the field of applied mechanics and mechanics of materials. He is a co-author of nearly 30 peer-reviewed articles published in prestigious journals, including the {International Journal of Solids and Structures} and the {International Journal of Impact Engineering}. He is a member of the Polish Society of Computer Methods in Mechanics and the International Association of Protective Structures. His professional interests are related to applied computational mechanics; numerical methods; and nonlinear mechanics of materials, including composites.

## **Jakub Krzysztof Grabski**

Jakub Krzysztof Grabski, Ph.D., Eng., is employed as an assistant professory at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland. He holds a Ph.D. in ´ mechanical engineering, awarded in 2016. His research interests include computational mechanics, corrugated cardboard, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, bioengineering, meshless methods and inverse problems. He has published more than 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals and around 20 conference papers. Among the awards he has won, one can distinguish the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (Poland) for outstanding young scientists 2020 and START 2018—stipend for young researchers below 30 from the Foundation for Polish Science. Furthermore, he is a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics.
