**Stanisław Drozd˙ z˙**

Stanisław Drozd˙ z,˙ Professor of physics and head of the Complex Systems Theory Department at Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP), Polish Academy of Sciences, and professor of computer science at the Cracow University of Technology. He received M.S. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in physics, both from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, ´ and a DSc (1988) in theoretical physics from INP. In 1994, he received the Polish state title of professor. His long-term scientific s tudies abroad include a role at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany, from 1983 to 1986 as a post-doc and from 1989 to 1991 as a senior scientist, as well as at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, from 1993 to 1994 and at Bonn University, Germany, from 2001 to 2002 as a visiting professor. His research interests and activities include the quantum many-body problem, nonlinear dynamics, general aspects of complexity, brain-research-related issues, dynamics of financial markets, and quantitative linguistics.
