Hon. Prof. Dr. h. c. Rolf Pfrengle
Lecture topic: "Research in the field of professional and personal development"
Prof. Pfrengle is the administrative director of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden.
Prof. Pfrengle studied public finance at (the predecessor of) the German Federal University for Applied Public Administration. After his diploma he worked as government tax auditor responsible for large scale enterprises. Subsequently, he joined the German Ministry for Research and Technology where he collaborated inter alia in the division responsible for non-university research institutes and thereafter in the international department in the field of scientific cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe. This was followed by pluri-annual stays as administrative director in several research institutes in Rome, Paris and Berlin. Prof. Pfrengle is member of the executive board of the German Physical Society that is one of the oldest and biggest physical societies of the world, executive board member of the Center for Science and Research Management Speyer and member of the board of directors of the National Association for Career Education for the Natural Sciences and Environment. He is Dr. honoris causa and Honorary Professor of STU Bratislava
Prof. Dr Ing. Slawomir Nikiel
Lecture topic : "3D printing in DDM (Direct Digital Manufacturing)"
Professor Nikiel works at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Telecommunications (University of Zielona Gora).
Slawomir Nikiel graduated from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland. In 1995 he received Ph.D. in the field of Computer Science, in 2009 he received D.Sc. in the same field. In 1997, as a NATO and The Royal Society postdoctoral fellow, he conducted research at the University of Hull devoted to man-machine interfaces and simulators. He is currently a professor in the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Telecommunications, University of Zielona Góra. He specializes in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems and Creative Industries. He is the author of over 70 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings and invited book chapters.