Governance

Marian Bubak

Scientific Affairs Director

Since October 2019 Marian Bubak is the Scientific Affairs Director of the Sano Centre for Computational Medicine in Krakow, Poland (sano.science) ; he also leads the Laboratory of Information Methods in Medicine at the ACC Cyfronet AGH, Krakow, Poland; he has been an employee of Cyfronetsince 1997 (www.dice.cyfronet.pl).

He obtained M.Sc. Eng. in technical physics and PhD in computer science from AGH University in Kraków. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, problem solving environments, and quantum computing; he authored about 290 papers in these areas and co-edited several books. He served key roles in in about 20 projects financed by the European Commission, he was an editor of FGCSand a chairman/organizer of international conferences (including ICCS in 2004 and 2008), he is a member of editorial boards of Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems and Computer Science Journal (AGH); more at orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-0549.

Until September 2021 he was staff member at the Institute of Computer Science of the AGH Universitywhere currently he gives lectures on parallel algorithms, quantum informatics, and leading the KQIS – quantum informatics seminar. In 2000-2004 he was the dean and organizer of the Faculty of Computer Science at WSZiB in Krakow, and in 2006-2016 he was professor of Distributed Systems Engineering at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam. Since June 2023 he is the Vice President for Scientific Affairs of the Polish information Processing Society (pti.org.pl), and since May 2024 – a member of the Program Council of the Krakow Klaster Lifescience (lifescience.pl).