**Marcin Kami ´nski**

Marcin Kaminski has been a Full Professor in the Department of Structural Mechanics, Ł ´ od´ z´ University of Technology, since 2015. He has been the Head of the Discipline Civil Engineering, Geodesy & Transportation in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture & Environmental Engineering, since 2019. His main research includes the stochastic finite element method, numerical modeling of random composites including homogenization theory, reliability assessment and optimization of civil engineering structures, stochastic ageing processes, and, recently, an application of probabilistic entropy in engineering computations.

He spent a postdoctoral study at Rice University in Houston, USA, and was a visiting professor at Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany, and also at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He authored more than 200 research papers in various journals including the *International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Composite Structures, International Journal of Solids & Structures, and also Computers & Structures*. He published two monographs: "Computational Mechanics of Composite Materials", Springer, 2005; and "The Stochastic Perturbation Method for Computational Mechanics", Wiley, 2013. He serves as the Associate Editor of Mechanics Research Communications and a member of the editorial board in *Acta Mechanica, Computers & Structures, Journal of Composites Science* and *SCI*.

He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Foundation for Polish Science, J. Argyris Award from ECCOMAS and Elsevier, J.T. Oden Scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin, and also some Polish national or academic awards including Bronze Cross of Merit (1998), Silver Cross for the Longstanding Service (2017), Medal of Commission of Education (2022), and also very recently The Research Prize of Ministry of Education & Science in 2023. He has recently been recognized (since 2021) as the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, CA, USA.
