Prof. Michał Kleiber, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, received a prestigious international award: ICCES Lifetime Achievement Medal, reported the PAS spokesman Mieczysław Grabianowski.
The medal is awarded by the International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Science (ICEES) each year to only one scientist.
Prof. Kleiber was awarded for "outstanding and lasting contribution to the development of mathematical modelling and computer simulations in science and technology".
Michał Kleiber (born 1946) is a computer scientist. He specializes in the use of computer methods in scientific research in the fields of technology and medicine. He graduated from Warsaw University of Technology Civil Engineering, from the University of Warsaw Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics.
In 1995 he was appointed director of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS, in which since 1986 he had been the head of the Department of Computational Science. He lectured at the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology.
In 2001 Prof. Kleiber received was Foundation for Polish Science Prize (so-called Polish Nobel Prize) in the field of engineering.
In 2001-2005 he was Ministry of Science and Information Technology and the Chairman of the State Committee for Scientific Research. In 2006 he became President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in 2011 he was re-elected for the second term.
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