Lech Pawlowski CV
Lech Pawlowski, born 27 April 1952 in Wroclaw (Poland), married with 2 children, is Professor of Surface Engineering at the Laboratory SPCTS in University of Limogesin France. His research work concerns mainly different aspects of thermal spraying and laser treatment of materials. His current research is focussed on suspension plasma sprayed ceramic coatings.
He studied Electronic Technology in Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland obtaining his diploma in 1974. After having completed his PhD on vacuum plasma sprayed copper and tantalum coatings in 1978, he obtained a postdoctoral position in France and made a DSc on thermophysical properties of thermal barrier coatings in 1985.
Dr. Pawlowski had worked in thermal spray industry as project manager, consultant and managing director in Germany, Italy and in France. His industrial work wasmainly focussed on the development of anilox and corona rollers.
His research appointments included the positions in The University of Stuttgart (Germany), The Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and The University of Trento (Italy). Since 1995 he has been appointed as the university professor in France. He has been lecturing on e.g. Surface Treatment, Technology of Powders Manufacturing, and Industrial Chemistry inUniversity of Artois in Béthune (1995-1999), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (1999-2010) and, starting from 2010 in The University of Limoges.Finally, he has collaborated with professional journal Surface and Coatings Technologyand open access journal Coatings. He initiated in 2003 and keeps organizingevery 2 years the RIPT meetings on thermal spraying in Lille and Limoges (see e.g. 5RIPT website:
His professional achievements in a few dates and numbers are as follows:
- Faculty of Mechanics at The Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany decided on 28 January 2013 to attribute him theDr-Ing. E.h. which is the doctorate honoris causa of engineering science.
- The China University of Petroleum in Quingdao has given him a position of invited professor for 5 years starting from 26 October 2011.
- Author of two text-books on thermal spraying and surface engineering one of them, The Science and Engineering of Thermal Spray Coatings, has had two editions and was translated and in published in China;
- Editor and co-editor of 6special issues of journals (1 of Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 1 of open access journal Coatingsand 4 of Surface and Coatings Technology);
- Author or co-author of88 papers in scientific journals;
- Author or co-author of51 contributions in scientific conferences;
- Presenting 12 invited conferences
- Tutor and co-tutor of 5 PhD doctors and tutor of 6 master students;
- Number of citationsof his studies following to Scopus tested on 6 April 2013 is equal to 1620: 875citations concern the papers and 745 – the books.
- Hirsch index of his citations is equal to h=18 (number of h papers cited at least h times)