Piotr Kula
Université Paris-Sud, France
Biography
P Kula, PhD, DSc, is the President of Polish Materials Society, a Member of European Materials Science Society (FEMS) and American Society for Metals. He has been the Head of Materials Science and Engineering Institute at Lodz University of Technology since 1997. Since then, he has founded and developed a strong research team in the field of Surface Engineering and Nanotechnology, recognized as the Lodz School. His main scientific and research achievements are non steady state models of vacuum carburizing and vacuum nitriding, artificial intelligence based software that supports these processes on the industrial scale and recently the manufacturing technology of high strength metallurgical graphene (HSMG) as well as the concept of using HSMG to produce the graphene-based nanocomposite for reversible storage of hydrogen.