RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LODZ

PROF. DR HAB. ELŻBIETA ŻĄDZIŃSKA

 

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Prof. Elżbieta Żądzińska has been associated with the University of Lodz for 25 years. During this period, she went through all the stages of academic career – from research-technical staff member to the Full Professor. 

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Science of the University of Lodz. She obtained a master's degree in Biology in 1990. In 1999 she obtained a doctoral degree in biological sciences and became a Doctor of Biological Sciences with habilitation in 2005. President of the Republic of Poland awarded Elżbieta Żądzińska the title of Professor of Biological Sciences in 2014. 

Over the years 2005-2008 Prof. Elżbieta Żądzińska held the position of the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection. From 2008 to 2016 she was the Dean of the Faculty and during the term of 2016-2020 she was the University of Lodz Vice-Rector for Research. Since 2020 she has been the Rector of the University of Lodz. 

Prof. Dr hab. Elżbieta Żądzińska is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Organismal Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) for the term 2020-2023, a member of the Commission on Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the President of the Science Committee President of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP). Prof. Żądzińska has been the Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at School of Medical Sciences University of Adelaide in Australia since 2014. In 2008 she was a laureate of NOVUM programme implemented by the Foundation for Polish Science.   

Her main research areas include human biology of contemporary and historical populations, determinants of population stress (secondary sex ratio index, fluctuating asymmetry, abnormal weight-growth ratios) and odontology. 

The Rector's scope of activity includes: 

  • setting directions for the development of the university;
  • supervision of activities of all organisational units of the university and coordinating their work; 
  • making decisions regarding the university's property and economy;
  • supervisiion of administration, including activities of the Chancellor; 
  • supervision of the process of students and doctoral students education as well as the process of educating scientific staff; 
  • undertaking activities aimed at promoting scientific staff and undertaking cooperation with the socio-economic environment; 
  • ensuring obedience of law and order at the university and establishing internal regulations, shaping the rules of employment and promotion at the university;
  • convening meetings of the Rector's Board and Senate and chairing them;
  • appointing disciplinary spokespersons at the university;
  • appointing permanent and ad hoc Rector's Committees;
  • appointing the Rector's plenipotentiaries to perform specific tasks;
  • taking care of the internal control;
  • ensuring protection and security of information, including protection of classified information.  

The Rector manages the university with the help of Vice-Rectors, the Chancellor and his deputies and plenipotentiaries appointed to perform specific tasks. 

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Iwona Rytych-Kaleta 
E-mail: rektor@uni.lodz.pl 
Phone: +48 42 635 40 02 
Lodz, ul. Narutowicza 68, room no. 111, Lodz 

 

VICE-RECTOR FOR RESEARCH, THE 1ST DEPUTY OF THE RECTOR

DR HAB. ŁUKASZ JAN KORPOROWICZ, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Photo prof. Korporowicza, prorektora ds. naukiDr hab. Łukasz Jan Korporowicz, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz was born in 1986 in Lodz. In 2010, he graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, and in 2016 in Canon Law from the Faculty of Canon Law, University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw. Prof. Korporowicz obtained the degree of Doctor of Law in 2015 and Habilitation in social sciences in the discipline of legal sciences in 2020. From the beginning of his academic career, he has been associated with the Department of Roman Law. Since December 2022, he has also been the Head of the Centre for Anglo-American Legal Tradition. In the past, he was committed to organisational activities for the faculty and the university. He held the position of the Dean’s Representative for Evaluation and Vice-Dean for Research. He was also a member of the University of Lodz Strategy Team. 

Prof. Łukasz Jan Korporowicz’s main research interests include comparative legal history, reception of Roman law in England, English legal history, American legal history and the broadly understood history of legal education and legal professions. He also deals with the issues concerning the presence of Roman law in the history of Polish law and the impact of Roman law on medieval canon law. He is an author of several dozen scientific publications. He has conducted research, primarily of an archival nature, at numerous British universities, including the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge as well as the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of international and national scientific societies, including the Selden Society, the American Society for Legal History, the Royal Historical Society and the Polish Legal History Society. As part of the last one, he actively works within the Scientific Committee. One of its main goals is to create a new synthesis of the history of Polish law. 

 

The Vice-Rector for Research performs a function of the first deputy of the Rector. 

His scope of activity includes:

  • planning and coordination of research at the University of Lodz;
  • development and evaluation of scientific disciplines at the university; 
  • concluding contracts for research, development and implementation works ordered by external entities and supervising their realisation; 
  • supervision of realisation of scientific, development and implementation programmes financed from domestic and international sources; 
  • supervision of realisation of internal scientific, development and implementation programmes and activities; 
  • supervision of scientific conferences, conventions and symposia organised at the university; 
  • supervision of the supply of scientific and teaching equipment and its use; 
  • supervision of activities of the Lodz University Press and submitting applications for the appointment of the editor-in-chief, publishing council and content editorial staff; 
  • supervision of activities of the University of Lodz Library;
  • supervision of activities of field research stations;
  • supervision of granting awards to academic teachers;
  • supervision of education of research staff (including academic degrees and titles);
  • supervision of scientific information; 
  • selection and promotion of key research areas of the university, promotion of Research Teams and Centres as showcases of the university; 
  • issues regarding other activities related to the assigned scope of competence entrusted by the Rector in the form of the power of attorney

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Agnieszka Zgondek 
E-mail: pronauka@uni.lodz.pl 
Phone: +48 42 635 40 04 
Lodz, ul. Narutowicza 68, room no. 111 

VICE-RECTOR FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS AND QUALITY OF EDUCATION

DR HAB. ROBERT ZAKRZEWSKI, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

 

 

Dr hab. Robert Zakrzewski, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz was born in 1970 in Lodz. He is a graduate of the then Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the University of Lodz. He obtained his doctoral degree in Chemical Sciences in September 1997. Robert Zakrzewski was awarded a doctor habilitatus degree in Chemical Sciences by the Council of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Lodz in 2010. He performed the function of Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry for Student Affairs and Quality of Education at the University of Lodz during the 2016-2020 term. 

 

Dr hab. Robert Zakrzewski conducts his main scientific research in the field of chemical science, the discipline of chemistry and is mainly focusing on the development of new analytical methods used for determination of biologically active compounds. His second mainstream research interest is studying complex skills of students in chemistry teaching. He has been a member of the Polish Chemical Society since 1995, and the chairperson of the Chemistry Didactics Section of the Polish Chemical Society since 2015. What is more, he was a member of the Board of the Polish Society for Educational Diagnostics during the 2019-2022 term. Currently, he is a member of the Ministry of National Education expert teams for teaching chemistry, and between 2015-2019 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Central Examination Commission.   

Scope of activity of the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Education includes:

  • organisation and supervision of the implementation of the curriculum of the BA and MA studies as well as Uniform Master's Studies, both full-time and part-time studies;
  • supervision of the obedience of the University of Lodz Rules of Study by the students, doctoral students and employees of the University;
  • supervision of the provision of education at PhD studies and doctoral schools at the University of Lodz;
  • processing requests for reconsideration of student affairs related to the course of study;
  • taking care for the student research movement and defining the rules for the participation of students and doctoral students in the research work of the university – together with the Vice-Rector for Research;
  • cooperation with the student government, doctoral students government and youth organisations;
  • control of quality of education, quality of studies and education curricula, of accreditation and confirmation of learning outcomes;
  • supervision of the implementation of the university-wide classes, including PE classes, foreign languages, library training, training in the field of intellectual property and copyright protection, etc.;
  • submitting applications for creation and cancellation of study programmes;
  • supervision of the organisation of postgraduate studies and other forms of training;
  • supervision of the course of recruitment for studies;
  • supervision of KIOD (Individual Teaching Load Cards);
  • analyses of curriculum of studies from the point of view of achieving teaching and research goals of students, doctoral students and personnel of the university;
  • iinitiating changes to the established study curricula;
  • issues regarding other activities related to the assigned scope of competence entrusted by the Rector in the form of the power of attorney 

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VICE-RECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PROF. DR HAB. ŁUKASZ BOGUCKI

 

Professor Łukasz Bogucki was born in 1969 in Lodz. In 1993, he graduated in English Philology at the University of Lodz. Four years later he obtained a doctor’s degree in humanities and doctor habilitatus degree in 2005. He was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland in 2014. As a doctoral student, Łukasz Bogucki studied in Utrecht, Strasbourg, Barcelona and Leuven. As an assistant professor and professor, he did internships and gave guest lectures at most Polish universities, as well as leading universities in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Turkey, Portugal, Sweden, Lithuania and Switzerland.

 

Professor Bogucki is a founder of the Intermedia Polish research group, he is also a co-editor of the Peter Lang series Łódź Studies in Language. Over the years, he collaborated on the creation of the Journal of Specialized Translation. Between 2012 - 2020 he was the Head of the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz. Almost from the beginning of his academic career, he has been supervising the translation specialisation in the Institute of English Studies, and participated in popularising translation studies in Poland and around the world. Primary scientific interests of Professor Bogucki include audio-visual and computer-assisted translation, the theory and methodology of translation and interpreting.

Scope of activity of the Vice-Rector for International Relations includes:

  • establishing cooperation between the University and foreign research and teaching institutions;
  • supervision of international students;
  • coordination of international exchange of academic teachers;
  • implementation of cooperation with foreign research and teaching institutions (cooperation agreements);
  • supervision of the organisation of official visits abroad, as well as representatives of national institutions which the university cooperates or intends to cooperate withh;
  • affiliation of the university and employees to various international organisations;
  • supervision of activities related to international promotion and information about the University;
  • supervision of foreign trips of students, doctoral students and employees of the university and arrivals of individuals from abroad;
  • supervision of the implementation of projects supporting the university internationalisation and the internationalisation of educational projects;
  • organisation and supervision of the International HUB;
  • issues regarding other activities related to the assigned scope of competence entrusted by the Rector in the form of the power of attorney. 

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Agnieszka Zgondek 
E-mail: prozagranica@uni.lodz.plintlrector@uni.lodz.pl 
Phone: +48 42 635 40 04 
Lodz, ul. Narutowicza 68, room no. 111 

VICE-RECTOR FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS

DR HAB. AGNIESZKA KURCZEWSKA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

 

Dr hab. Agnieszka Kurczewska, Associate Professor specialises in the field of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. She works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Mechanisms at the University of Lodz. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz, where she received her master's degree in Economics in 2003, and a year later started her doctoral studies at the same faculty. She obtained a doctoral degree in Economics in 2008, and a doctor habilitatus degree in 2015. Between 2016-2020 she was a Vice-Dean for Development, and then a Vice-Dean for Research and External Relations. During her dean's term of office, she created, among other things, the programme of faculty's external relations and initiated a regional competition for students Eksoc StartUP!. 

 

Her international academic experiences include working as an Assistant Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki (2010/2011), as well as a 10-month research stay at Tampa University (Mobility Plus programme), and a 3-month research stay at Lund University (Bekker programme). She was also a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists (2011-2014), and a member of the Council of Young Scientists (2013-2015). She has been a board member of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) since 2015. Between 2017-2020, she was a thematic editor in the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). Her previous professional experience also includes internships at the European Commission in Brussels and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Scope of activity of the Vice-Rector for External Relations includes:

  • initiating and carrying out tasks within the framework of the university's cooperation with economic institutions, state and local government administration bodies, the social and cultural environment;
  • supervision of patent protection, commercialisation of research results and their implementation, as well as control over compliance with copyright by employees of the university;
  • organisation of official visits of representatives of national institutions with which the university cooperates or intends to cooperate;
  • supervision of activities related to promotion and information of the university;
  • monitoring careers of the University of Lodz graduates;
  • cooperation with the socio-economic environment to adapt study curricula to the current economic and social needs – in consultation with the Vice-Rector for Students Affairs and Quality of Education;
  • supervision of the organisation of student internships;
  • activating cooperation with local actors in order to implement joint projects and increase the employment level of graduates;
  • implementation of initiatives integrating the academic community of the university and the academic community of Lodz;
  • issues regarding other activities related to the assigned scope of competence entrusted by the Rector in the form of the power of attorney.  

Ewa Szulc 
E-mail: prowspolpraca@uni.lodz.pl 
Phone: +48 42 635 40 24 
Lodz, ul. Narutowicza 68, room no. 101 

 

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