Members of the Council
Prof. Mirosław Ząbek
Chairman of the University Council
Prof. Mirosław Ząbek is a specialist in neurosurgery and neurotraumatology. He is the head of the Department of Neurosurgery and Injuries of the Nervous System of the Postgraduate Medical Education Centre at the Mazowiecki Hospital in Bródno. He has been a long-term national consultant in the field of neurosurgery.
Prof. Ząbek has performed nearly three thousand operations on brain aneurysms. As one of the few specialists in the world, he has performed a series of brain operations in extracorporeal circulation and deep hypothermia. He is also famous for his pioneering operations in Poland, such as the implantation of a brain stimulator in the treatment of dystonia, the implantation of electrodes into the deep brain structures in Tourette's syndrome, and a series of deep brain stimulation operations in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Prof. Ząbek has authored and co-authored over 170 publications in the field of medicine, including books, review papers, and chapters in textbooks. He is the editor of the textbook "Zarys neurochirurgii dla lekarzy i studentów medycyny" (An outline of neurosurgery for doctors and medical students). He is also a member of scientific societies and has served two terms as President of the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Society of Neurosurgeons.
Edyta Demby-Siwek
Edyta Demby-Siwek has served as Deputy Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) since January 2025. Previously, she was President of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. She is a Polish and European patent attorney, a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, and holds a postgraduate diploma in intellectual property law from the Jagiellonian University.
Between 2014 and 2019, as Director of the Trade Mark Department at the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, she was involved in legislative work on amendments to Polish industrial property law and in implementing the trade mark system reform in Poland. She also headed the Polish delegation in the Council of the European Union working group involved in work on the EU trade mark regulation and directive. She has participated in the work of bodies of the European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the EUIPO and the European Patent Office.
Robert Dobrzycki
Robert Dobrzycki, President, Founder, and Co-Owner of Panattoni, graduated from the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw and holds the international FRICS designation—Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He has been active in the real estate industry since 1999, beginning his career at the American development company Menard Doswell & Co.
In 2005, Mr. Dobrzycki established Panattoni in Europe. Today, the company operates in 17 European countries, as well as in India and Saudi Arabia, and is the largest warehouse developer in Europe. He is also the founder of Harden Construction, Blue Assets, and Newport Fund. Mr. Dobrzycki has received numerous prestigious awards. In 2020, he was named “Man of the Decade” by Prime Property Prize for his contribution to the growth of the warehouse market. In 2023, he was honored with the “Wektor,” presented by Employers of Poland (Pracodawcy RP) for his significant contribution to entrepreneurship in Poland, and in 2024, he received the “Lifetime Achievement in Real Estate” accolade at the international CEE Quality Awards.
In March 2024, Mr. Dobrzycki established the Robert Dobrzycki Foundation, whose mission is to foster social development and promote Poland and Polish entrepreneurship on the international stage. Among the Foundation’s projects are collaborations with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, patronage of the “Nike” Literary Award, and partnership in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Festival. In 2024, the Foundation conferred its inaugural “Koliber” distinctions, which constitute a financial award for outstanding talent and development. Recipients included violinist Ms. Katarzyna Ratajczak and Dr. Katarzyna Muras-Szwedziak, a physician.
Prof. Beata Glinka
Professor Beata Glinka is a scholar in economics whose academic work focuses on organisations, management, entrepreneurship and innovation. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University, where she has headed the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation since 2025, while also remaining affiliated with the University of Warsaw.
In 2020–2024, she served as a member of the Senate of the University of Warsaw and Chair of its Senate Committee for Finance. In 2021–2024, she was the Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Entrepreneurship Development at the University of Warsaw. She also serves as Chair of the Council of the University of Warsaw’s Centre for Technology and Knowledge Transfer, Editor-in-Chief of European Management Studies, and a member of the Committee on Organization and Management Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Roman Kapuscinski
Professor Roman Kapuściński earned his doctoral degree in production and operations systems and obtained a master’s degree in industrial administration at Carnegie Mellon University. He also completed a semester of MBA studies at Kent State University and fulfilled all the course requirements for a master’s degree in economics and mathematics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
His research focuses on supply chain management and the intersection of operations with marketing and finance, encompassing issues such as the value of information in coordinating supply chain elements, optimal design of production and storage systems under capacity constraints, the interplay between ownership and efficiency in value chain analyses, and lead-time quotation. More recently, his work has expanded into energy market pricing and the impact of customer behavior on operational decisions.
He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science and Operations Research. Six of his co-authored articles, written with his doctoral students, have been finalists or winners in various best-paper competitions. He has received the Ross Teaching Excellence Award three times, an honor conferred by his students. Professor Kapuściński has collaborated on research with numerous companies and has served as an advisor on various MBA and Tauber projects.
Prof. Marek Karliner
Prof. Marek Karliner is a physicist, a specialist in particle physics, and a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the years 2003-2005 he worked as Visiting Professor at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. Since 2015 he has been the head of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is also a member of the International Review Committee established in 2019 to review the research activities of the BESIII Collaboration at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing. Since January 1, 2021 he has chaired Israel’s High Energy Physics Committee and has represented Israel in the CERN Council.
Prof. Karliner has authored about 150 scientific publications, which have nearly 12,800 citations and a Hirsch index of 46. In his works, Prof. Karliner predicted the existence and features of a number of elementary particles, incl. the so-called pentaquarks and baryons containing two charm quarks. These predictions have been thoroughly confirmed experimentally through the LHCb experiment at CERN. In a paper published in 2017 in ‘Nature’, prof. Karliner described the quark-level analogue of nuclear fusion, a process that releases several times more energy than standard nuclear fusion. In another paper, also published in 2017 and selected by the editors of ‘Physical Review Letters’ as editor's choice, he predicted the existence and the mass of stable, double-heavy tetraquarks, containing two b quarks and two light antiquarks. It was the first widely accepted example of a stable exotic hadron.
Mateusz Mossakowski
Chairman of the Student Government of the University of Warsaw,