DrSc Bolesław Augustyniak, for many years at the Gdansk University of Technology (Faculty of Technical Physics of Applied Mathematics) was engaged in the study of magneto-elastic phenomena and the development of magnetic non-destructive methods of diagnosing the condition of steel structures. These methods were tested in a number of industrial plants in Poland and abroad. He led a research team and conducted several projects as well as organised scientific and technical conferences. He is now the president of NNT Ltd company in Gdansk, whose aim is to elaborate innovative magnetic methods of stresses, degradation and discontinuities in steel structures evaluation.

Grzegorz Golański, PhD, Eng., Associate Professor of CUT is an employee at the Institute of Materials Engineering of the CUT, a specialist in the field of materials engineering. In his science-research work he deals with the methods of testing mechanical properties of metals, alloys, and their welded joints, the issues of creep-resisting steels, alloys, and their joints, the issues of life and failure of the engineering materials, and the subject of heat treatment.

Evangelos Hristoforou, Electrical Engineer (Patras, 1984) and PhD (King’s College London, 1991), is Professor of Electronic Materials and Director of the Laboratory of Electronic Sensors at the National Technical University of Athens. His main research interests refer to stress tensor distribution monitoring and rehabilitation in ferromagnetic steels, as well as other sensors based on magnetic effects and specific properties of materials. He is actively related to numerous industries in the field of advanced manufacturing & maintenance, energy and health.

Yasuhiro Kamada is currently a professor at the Department of Physical Science and Materials Engineering at Iwate Univ., Morioka, Japan. He received his PhD from Nagoya Univ. in 1997 and was an Assistant Professor at Osaka Univ. (1997-2000) before joining Nondestructive Evaluation and Science Research Center at Iwate Univ. (2001-2010). His research interests are the clarification of irradiation effects on ferromagnetic materials used in nuclear and fusion reactors, and also the development of magnetic evaluation methods for automobile components.

Professor Zbigniew Kowalewski is the head of the Department of Experimental Mechanics at Institute of Fundamental Technological Problems, Polish Academy of Sciences. His scientific work is connected with mechanics and material engineering, especially plasticity, creep, fatigue and experimental methods in the field of solid body mechanics. He is the author or co-author of over 360 works published in scientific journals and conference materials, 14 books and 8 patents.

Aphrodite Ktena is a Professor at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She holds Ph.D./M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA and a B.Sc. degree from the University of Bridgeport, CT, USA. Her research interests include hysteresis and magnetic materials modelling; characterization of magnetic materials; sensor development and measurement technology. She works closely with the Laboratory of Electronic Sensors, NTUA, Greece, on magnetic non-destructive testing methods for steels.

Professor Roman Kuziak is the head of the Department of Technological Processes Simulation at the Institute of Metallurgy in Gliwice. Specialization: Physical and numerical simulation of industrial processes; materials structure studies using advanced research techniques (XRD, SEM, EBSD, TEM); wear mechanisms studies and diagnostics. Scientific activity: modern multiphase steels for the automotive industry, bainitic steels, steels for the power industry, high-strength steels for mining and railway transport, research and implementation cooperation with industry.

Gábor Vértesy, D.Sc., is a scientific advisor of Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science within Centre for Energy Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Main field of activity: nondestructive evaluation of degradation/structural changes of ferromagnetic construction materials by a novel method, which is based on systematic measurements and evaluation of minor magnetic hysteresis loops. Application of this method gives a lot of advantages compared with existing other techniques.

Marcos Flavio de Campos is Full Professor at Federal Fluminense University – Volta Redonda – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil. He has more than 25 years of experience with Magnetic Materials and has studying the relationship between residual stress, microstructure and magnetic properties of steels. Large part of his research has been dedicated to detection of the effect of plastic deformation by magnetic methods. He also has conducted research on the use of Magnetic Barkhausen Noise for Non-destructive inspection and has used X-ray diffraction and hole drilling method for Residual Stress determination. Much of his recent research has focused on micromagnetic methods, which can be used for evaluating the magnetic hysteresis change due to plastic deformation or residual stress.

Professor Jerzy Okrajni works in the Department of Research and Mechanics of Materials at the Faculty of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy of the Silesian University of Technology in Katowice.
His general field of study is mechanics of materials. He deals with fatigue issues, with particular emphasis on thermo-mechanical fatigue, as well as the assessment of technical condition and life prediction of components under mechanical and thermal loading.
Techniques of his research are : 1) fatigue tests using servohydraulic systems in combination with temperature control systems; 2) computer modelling, including FEM for local evaluation of mechanical behavior of material in device elements.

Martin J. Sablik is retired scientist from Southwest Research Institute, where he was a theoretician in many fields. His major expertise was magnetic hysteresis and magnetomechanical effects, as applied to magnetic nondestructive evaluation. He has used hysteresis modeling for detection of stress, linear and biaxial, in magnetic materials and detection of creep damage effects and plastic deformation effects in magnetic materials. He now has his own private company, Applied Magnetic and Physical Modeling.

Leszek Piotrowski D.Sc., Eng., Associate Professor of GUoT works as a researcher at the Solid State Department, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdansk University of Technology. His area of interest is magnetic nondestructive testing. Works on the implementation of magnetoacoustic emission technique for the material structural health monitoring. He deals mainly with assessment of microstructural changes induced by creep process and plastic deformation. Another issue in his work is application of Barkhausen noise signal and magnetic parameters measurements for diagnostic purposes.

Zbigniew Ranachowski is a professor at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and heads the Non-destructive Testing Laboratory at the Department of Experimental Mechanics. He specializes in testing mechanical properties of structural materials and objects in a wide range of microstructures (ceramics, concrete, steels). He uses and develops research techniques useful in the field of non-destructive diagnostics, such as acoustic emission and computed tomography. He is Secretary of the IPPT Scientific Council. He was European Advisory in the journal of the British Society for Non-destructive Testing “Insight” and coordinator of the workshop “Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Stuctures” conducted by IPPT.

Tomasz Barszcz, D.Sc., Eng., Associate Professor of AGH works now at the Robotics and Mechatronics Department. His research activities in Machinery Monitoring, Vibration Signal Processing and Distributed Systems include: damage detection methods, advanced signal processing, analysis and simulation of vibration processes in machinery and structures, distributed computer systems for monitoring and diagnostics and diagnostic centers. He is the author of 5 books and over 200 papers. Since 2000 he is involved in creation of companies which commercialize innovative technologies (EC Systems and AMC group). Companies specialize in development and implementation of condition monitoring systems. In last 10 years more than several hundred systems have been installed in various industry branches, e.g. power, transportation, mining, chemical, oil & gas.
Prof Barszcz is the vice-president of PTDT (Polish Society of Technical Diagnostics).

Leszek Magalas is a professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. In 2017 he received the Zener Prize in recognition of his scientific achievements in the field of material engineering and physics. The justification for the Zener Prize was given: “For paradigm-shifting research on mechanical spectroscopy of solids, fundamentals of mechanical spectroscopy, and development of high-resolution mechanical spectroscopy HRMS”. The Zener Prize, awarded since 1965, has been awarded to 23 people so far, and Leszek Magalas is the first Polish winner. The AGH University of Science and Technology Mechanical Spectroscopy Laboratory has the only high resolution mechanical HRMS spectrometer in Poland, low frequency subresonant and resonant mechanical spectrometer working in the temperature range from 100 K to 1000 K, impulse spectrometer and classical research equipment in the field of material engineering.

He deals with specific research for 3D printing, namely SLM (Selective Laser Melting) in Department of Machining, Assembly and Engineering Metrology. His dissertation focuses on research into the effects of finishing operations on the utility properties and subsequent heat treatment. He also examined the fundamental research of the mechanical properties of stainless steel (tensile test, porosity, impact test, etc.) and the hardness study of stainless steel 316L. He works on the RENISHAW AM400 laser system for which he has been certified for operation. At the moment, he solves the shape of lattice structures depending on the volume of material. In the future, he would like to work with topological optimizations and lightweight designs. At the same time, he is looking for a way how to reduce the internal stress that arises from the rapid heating and cooling of the material in the SLM process.