Professor Piotr Przybyłowski

Rector of the Maritime Higher School, 1996-2001
Rector of Gdynia Maritime Academy, 2001-2002

Professor Piotr Przybyłowski was born on 29th June 1946 in the village of Zgniłobłoty in the Brodnicki district. He passed his secondary school matura in 1964 at the Philomaths' and Philarets' Secondary School in Brodnica. He completed higher education at the Faculty of Food Technology of the Olsztyn Technological Academy of Agricultural in 1969, graduating with a Master of Engineering in Food Technology degree, after which he took up employment at the Faculty as an assistant. In 1976, he was awarded a doctoral degree in food technology, and in 1985, a postdoctoral degree in the same specialisation.

Residency in France

From 1980 until 1983, he spent time in residence at two scientific institutes in France as the recipient of a French government scholarship. His stay at the Ecological Microbiology lab in Jouy-en-Josas near Paris and the Institute of Food and Metabolic Disease at the Nancy Medical Academy resulted in a postdoctoral dissertation on the potential for the development of carcinogenic N-Nitrosamines in food and living organisms. In 1986, he began work as a reader at the Maritime Higher School within the Faculty of Administration, where he taught authorising officers. During the years 1987-1993, he served as the Faculty's dean. In 1987-1990, he worked as the head of Food and Alimentation onboard ships, and since 1991 he has headed the Department of Commodity Science and Cargo, which in 2005 became the Department of Commodity and Quality Sciences.

Rector of Gdynia Maritime Higher School

In 1994, he was awarded the academic title of professor and in the same year was nominated as a full professor at Gdynia Maritime Higher School. He was elected rector of the School in 1996 and held the post until 2002. During the years 2008 to 2016, he was Dean of the Faculty of Business and Commodity Science.

He was also employed as a full professor at the Poznan Academy of Economics within the Faculty of Commodity Science, part of the Department of Chemistry of Natural Products. From 2009 until 2017, he also worked as a visiting professor at the Gdansk University of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences in the Department of Clinical Nutrition.

Scientific Achievements

Professor Przybyłowski has produced 365 works, including 138 original publications printed in Polish and international scientific journals, a book, 3 monographs, 30 chapters included in other monographs, 9 textbooks and academic scripts, 16 patents, 16 papers and scientific communications and 45 unpublished works.

Professor Piotr Przybyłowski has supervised 8 doctorates and 174 master's and undergraduate engineering theses. As a renowned scientist in two disciplines - food and alimentation technology as well as management and quality sciences, he has reviewed 42 doctoral dissertations, 28 post-doctoral dissertations, 16 nominations for the academic title of professor and 1 nomination for the honorary of Doctor honoris causa. He has also reviewed many scientific publications, books and research projects.

Institutions and Organisations

He is a member of the following institutions: The Committee of Food and Nutrition Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences [KNoŻiŻ PAN], The Committee of Analytical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences [KAS PAN], The Committee of Food Hygiene and Food and Nutrition of the Polish Academy of Sciences, The Committee for Commodity and Quality Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, The Scientific Research Committee, the International Association for Commodity Science and Technology, The Polish Association of Commodity Sciences [PTT], and the Pomeranian Excellence in Quality Committee [KPNJ].

From Professor Przybyłowski's organisational, educational and scientific achievements, especially worthy of mention is the Maritime Higher School's achievement of Maritime Academy status, the construction of the training and research ship "Horyzont II", the implementation at the Academy as one of the first higher education establishments of a quality management system for academic teaching and scientific research, as well as the inclusion of instruction on ISO management systems within programmes of study. Another important achievement was the establishment of degree programmes in commodity science within the Faculty of Administration at Gdynia Maritime Higher School and the Faculty’s subsequent achievement of the right to award doctorates and post-doctorates in economics in the discipline of commodity science.