Jacek Antoni Błażewicz (born 11 August 1951,

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

) is a Polish

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specializing in the theory of algorithms and

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. He has been working as Director of the Institute of Computer Sciences of the

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. He is also Head of the Department of Bioinformatics at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the

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Life and career

He was born on 11 August 1951, in

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. He graduated in

control engineering Control engineering, also known as control systems engineering and, in some European countries, automation engineering, is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with d ...

with honours from the

in 1974. In 1977, he obtained a

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at the Faculty of

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. In 1980, he received his

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and in 1987 he became a

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. Between 1981-1984, he worked as a vice-Dean of the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Poznan University of Technology. In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems. In the years 1994-1999 he was also employed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University (; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. Due to its history, the university is traditionally considered among Poland's most reputable institution ...

. Since 1999 he has been working at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the

. Between 2012-2013, he was a member of the National Science Centre. He is most notable for his research into

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and the theory of algorithms. In 2012, he shared the Copernicus Award (together with Erwin Pesch) "for their joint research and development of algorithms in the field of

scheduling A schedule (, ) or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things ...

and bioinformatics". He is a member of a number of scientific associations including Polish Cybernetics Association, Polish Society of Bioinformatics,

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

and Polish Information Processing Society. In 2023, he was elected a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

. Błażewicz is also a member of

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s of numerous

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s and magazines such as ''Journal of Heuristics'', ''Journal of Scheduling'', ''Parallel Computing'', ''Memetic Algorithms'', ''Computational Methods in Science and Technology'' and ''Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences''. He has been a

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at such universities and institutions as National Research Council,

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;

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;

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, Halifax;

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;

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;

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; he has also been an EPSRC Fellow at

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and a member of EPSRC Peer Review College.

Awards

*Fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

(IEEE) (2013) * Copernicus Award (2012) *

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of the

University of Siegen The University of Siegen () is a public research university located in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The university was founded in 1972. ...

(2006) *Scientific Award of the City Council of

(2006) * EURO Gold Medal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (1991) *Scientific Award of the Scientific Secretary of the

(1980)

Selected publications

Błażewicz is an author and co-author of around 300 scientific publications and 15 monographs, some of which include: *''Scheduling in Computer and Manufacturing Systems'' (co-author with K.H. Ecker, G. Schmidt, J. Weglarz), Springer 1994, *''Scheduling computer and manufacturing processes'', Springer 1996, *''Handbook on Parallel and Distributed Processing'' (co-editor with K. Ecker, B. Plateau, D. Trystram), Springer 2000, *''Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems'' (co-editor with W. Kubiak, T. Morzy, M. Rusinkiewicz), Springer 2003, *''Handbook on Scheduling. From Theory to Applications'' (co-author with K.H. Ecker, E. Pesch, G. Schmidt, J. Węglarz), Springer 2007,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blazewicz, Jacek Living people 1951 births Academic staff of the Poznań University of Technology Polish computer scientists Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poznań University of Technology alumni Members of Academia Europaea People from Poznań

Life and career

Awards

Selected publications

See also

References