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Krzysztof Wilmanski (* March 01, 1940 in Łódź) is a Polish-German scientist working in the field of Continuum Mechanics.

Scientific life
Wilmanski was born on March 01, 1940 in Łódź, Poland. He took the matura in 1957 in the T. Kosciuszko Secondary School in Łódź and studied until 1962 Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Łódź. In 1965 he graduated at the same university in the field of Continuous Models of Discrete Systems. In 1970 he completed his habilitation in the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (field: Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics). He won the M.T. Huber Prize for this work. He was nominated to the Professor by the State Council of Poland in 1979. In this year he was awarded with an Alexander von Humboldt Stipend in Germany. 1984/85 he was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. From 1996 until 2005 he was the head of the Research Group Continuum Mechanics in the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin. From 2005 to 2010 he was Professor of Mechanics at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland. In 2006 he received the Lady Davis Prize at Technion, Haifa, Israel. Currently, he is member of the faculty of the ROSE School, Centre for Post-Graduate Training and Research in Pavia, Italy.

Main research fields

 * axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics,
 * theory of mixtures,
 * phase transformations in solids,
 * non-newtonian fluids,
 * acoustic waves in continua,
 * crystal plasticity and the evolution of textures,
 * thermodynamics of porous materials.

Some visiting posts

 * postgraduate at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA, 1969-70),
 * visiting professor at the University of Baghdad (Iraq, 1972-74),
 * von Humboldt stipend (Germany, 1979),
 * fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany, 1984-1985),
 * visiting professor at the University of Paderborn (Germany, 1986-87),
 * research fellow at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany, 1987-90),
 * the Technical University of Berlin (Germany, 1991-92), and
 * the University of Essen (1992-1996).

Main original contributions to research
(publication list )
 * axiomatic foundations of continuum thermodynamics,
 * thermodynamics of Maxwellian heat conducting fluids,
 * thermodynamics of poroelastic materials under large deformations,
 * modelling of porous materials with the balance equation of porosity.

Selected books

 * Wilmanski, K.: Thermomechanics of Continua, Springer, Berlin, N.Y., 1998.
 * Wilmanski, K.: Continuum Thermodynamics, Part I: Foundations, Wold Scientific, Singapore, 2008.
 * Albers, B. (ed.): Continuous Media with Microstructure. Collection in Honor of Krzysztof Wilmanski, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.