**Artur Bartosik**

Artur Bartosik has been appointed as a researcher and academic teacher at the Kielce University of Technology since 1983. In 1993, he established the Centre for Continuing Education at the University and in 2001 the Swietokrzyskie Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer, which he managed as President of the Board from 2001 to 2007. Currently, he is the head of the Department of Production Engineering and the head of the Industrial Laboratory for Low Emission and Renewable Energy Sources. Together with his team, he works to establish a structure for university-wide multidisciplinary collaboration in terms of energy self-sufficiency. His scientific interest is focused on experiments, modelling, and simulation of single- and two-phase flows, including convective heat transfer. Artur, as a researcher, has spent 2 years at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and several weeks at Ilmenau Technical University in Germany. He is the Editor-in-Chief of WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics. He is a member of professional bodies and scientific committees of international conferences. He serves lectures for students on fluid mechanics; heat transfer; fluid-flow machinery; hydrotransport; renewable energy sources; transnational technology transfer; applied fluid mechanics. He continuously participates in industrial projects.
