03/11/2009

On 1 November 2009, Prof. Krzysztof Maruszewski took up the position of Director of the JRC's Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM). He succeeds Dr. Alejandro Herrero, who after seven years as Director of JRC-IRMM has retired from the services of the European Commission.

Krzysztof Maruszewski was born in Poland, and graduated from the Wroclaw University of Technology before beginning his doctoral studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, USA in 1989. He obtained a PhD degree in 1992 in the field of analytical chemistry.

Krzysztof returned to Poland in 1995 to work in the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research in Wroclaw, before moving to the Wroclaw University of Technology where he became Vice-Director and then Director of an Institute related to material sciences. In 2005, he received a full professorship in material sciences from the President of the Republic of Poland. In February 2007, he joined the European Commission's Joint Research Centre as Director of Programmes and Stakeholder Relations.