Director of CBK PAN

Dr hab. inż. Piotr Orleański

phone:   +48 22 49 66 420
fax:  +48 22 840 31 31
e-mail: porlean@cbk.waw.pl

Bio: Piotr Orleański, PhD engineer, director of the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, previously deputy director for technology development.

During over 40 years of work, he has gained extensive experience in developing and implementing new instruments in space missions, mainly in the fields of optoelectronics, on-board power supply and on-board computers, and space technologies. Piotr Orleański participated in several international satellite projects, including Integral, MarsExpress, Herschel, Solar Orbiter (employment at FHNW in Switzerland, 2009-2017), ExoMars, BRITE. Piotr Orleański is the mai creator of the Laboratory of Satellite Applications of FPGA Systems at CBK PAN, which was established in cooperation with the Foundation for Polish Science. He was and is a lecturer in space technologies at the Warsaw University of Technology, at CBK PAN, and at the Military University of Technology. He is a member of the Council of the Polish Space Agency and the Space and Satellite Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a reviewer of many projects in EU Horizon 2020 / Space program.