Wlodzimierz KLONOWSKI

Wlodzimierz (Wlodek) Klonowski  got his MS in Physics with specialization in Biophysics from the Univesrsity of Warsaw with famous ‘Class’68’. In the beginning his works concerned mainly theory of networks and structure-property relationships. He spent 14 years outside Poland, as a professor at the Univesity of Kinszhasa (Kongo, then Zaïre, French speaking), Max Planck Fellow in MPI Biophysikalische Chemie in Gõttingen, visiting professor at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, USA). His research interests were changing  towards theory of nonlinear systems and of systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. He had predicted a new type of dissipative structures – the sol-gel structures – that later have been found experimentally. He had postulated a new type of non-equilibrium molecular structure that later was named in scientific literature Klonowski-Klonowska conformon  (term proposed  by in the book Molecular Theories of Cell Life and Death,  Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991).  He got his DSc (habilitation) in Theoretical Biophysics from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1990. Most of his more recent works has concerned application of nonlinear dynamics and of chaos theory in biomedicine, e.g. fractal analysis of EEG and HRV, symbolic analysis of biosignals.  Founder and the Coordinator of the series of European Interdisciplinary Schools on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis EUROATTRACTOR  in FP5. and the editor of series Frontiers of Nonlinear Dynamics (Pabst Science Publisher, Lengerich, Berlin). In FP 6. the leader of GBAF, the Polish group in the IP SENSATION. He is a representative for Poland to MC of NEUROMATH and also to MCs of the COST Actions B27 ENOC (where he also serves as the Chair of the Theoretical Working Group WG1),  and of  BM0605. Grant reviewer for NSF (USA), European Commission (Individual Expert on panels for Marie Curie and NEST Actions), Estonian Academy of Sciences. He has actively disseminated scientific knowledge to general public and has been active in scientific societies; he was the president of the Polish Biophysical Society Warsaw Section, he is a member of the International Society of Bioelectromagnetism and of several others. Founding Editor and an Editor-in-Chief of a new open access journal “Nonlinear Biomedical Physics” (http://www.nonlinearbiomedphys.com/edboard , BioMed Central, London).  His biographical entries are in several international Who’sWhos like Leading Scientists of the World 2008 

to which he was  nominated for the 'efforts made in the arena of Scientific Research in Biomedical Physics' (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK).

 

Contacts:

Lab. Biosignal Analysis Fundamentals,

Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomed. Eng. Polish Academy of Sciences,

4 Trojdena St, 02109 Warsaw, Poland

tel: +48-22 6596050

fax: +48-22-6597030

email: wklon@ibib.waw.pl ; wklon@gbaf.eu

 

webpage: http://nbp.gbaf.eu/wklonowski/