Michał Mrozowski was born in 1959 and is a resident of Gdańsk. He was born, raised, and educated here. He loves Gdańsk and considers it the best place to live in Poland. He graduated from the 9th General Secondary School in Gdańsk. During his school years, he was interested in science subjects and participated in physics and chemistry competitions. In 1978, he began his studies at the Faculty of Electronics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. He studied according to an individualized program of study with an extended curriculum in mathematics, optimization, and electrodynamics. During this time, he became involved in the Independent Students’ Association and the scientific club. After completing his master’s degree with distinction in 1983, he began doctoral studies at the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Gdańsk, and in 1986, he began working at the Gdańsk University of Technology. He obtained his doctorate (with distinction) in 1990 (supervised by Professor Jerzy Mazur).

His scientific development was very dynamic. He obtained his habilitation (1994) at the age of 35, and the title of professor in January 2001 at the age of 41. He completed long-term research fellowships in the United Kingdom (University College London) and Canada (University of Victoria). He conducted research in Italy at the University of Pavia. He currently heads the Department of Microwave and Antenna Engineering, continuing the work of his predecessors: Professors Krzysztof Grabowski, Jerzy Mazur, and Marek Kitliński. He specializes in electromagnetic field theory, microwave filter theory, methods for computer-aided design of microwave and antenna systems based on Maxwell’s equations, as well as electrodynamics and computational photonics.

He is the author of the monograph “Guided Electromagnetic Waves – Theory and Analysis,” jointly published by Research Studies Press and J. Wiley and Sons (1997), and over one hundred articles in renowned scientific journals in the fields of electronics and telecommunications. He successfully educates young researchers. Many of his students have won national awards for the best master’s theses, and his doctoral students have received prestigious international and domestic scholarships. He has supervised 18 doctoral candidates, several of whom have received awards from the Prime Minister and the Foundation for Supporting the Development of Radiocommunication and Multimedia Technologies. For his achievements in doctoral education, in 2023, he was the first Pole to receive the international IEEE MMT-S Distinguished Educator Award. He effectively raises research funds (he has directed nearly 30 research projects, including three for US government agencies).

At every stage of his career, he has received recognition from various scientific bodies (distinctions, awards from the Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and twice from the Prime Minister). He is one of the youngest winners of the Foundation for Polish Science competition in the professorial subsidy category (2001). In 2002, he was awarded the Jan Heweliusz Scientific Award of the City of Gdańsk for his outstanding achievements in the theory of electromagnetism and computational electrodynamics, particularly for developing methods for the automatic design of devices for mobile telephony and wireless Internet access systems.

According to a comprehensive analysis covering all scientific disciplines, prepared by a team including scientists from Stanford University, he is among the top 2% of the world’s most recognized scientists in his field.

He is also one of the few Poles to have been awarded the title of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), awarded by the world’s largest organization of electronics and electrical engineers to its members whose achievements are deemed outstanding by an international panel of experts. He received this title in 2008 for “contributions to the theory of guided waves and computational electromagnetics.”

Professor Michał Mrozowski was appointed associate editor of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Componets Letters (2005–2006) and Proceedings of IEEE (2016–2021), the most prestigious scientific journal in electronics. His international recognition was confirmed in 2012 (and in subsequent years) by the American company NVIDIA, which recognized his team’s work as defining the state of the art in massively parallel computing. He was also invited to participate in two international technical expert panels of the American Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, and in 2013, he was elected a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He has experience in assessing research projects, including serving as an expert on panels of the Foundation for Polish Science and the National Science Centre (NCN), and as a member of the NCN’s permanent team of experts for the evaluation of research project results. He places particular emphasis on improving the quality and effectiveness of research – during his term as Vice-Dean for Research (2005–2012), the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics at Gdańsk University of Technology rose to second place in the country in a homogeneous group of several dozen institutions. In 2018–2019, he led the team responsible for establishing the Doctoral School at Gdańsk University of Technology, and has served as its director since 2019.

He is a science popularizer. He initiated the annual “Maxwell’s Equations Birthday” event, which commemorates James Clerk Maxwell’s groundbreaking lecture, delivered on December 8, 1864, at the Royal Society in London, in which the equations underlying electromagnetism were first presented. The birthday celebrations include highly popular public lectures, the awarding of “Maxwells”—four prizes to the best students—and, at the end, guests are treated to a birthday cake themed after the lecture’s theme.