Rector of the University of Gdańsk in the 2020-2024 term. In 2016-2020, he served as the Vice-Rector for Research and International Cooperation at the University of Gdańsk. In September 2020, he was appointed the first Director of the Fahrenheit Union of Universities in Gdańsk.

He has been the Head of the Department of Environmental Analysis since 2006. In 2008-2011, he served as Deputy Dean and in 2012-2016 as Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdańsk. In 2011-2012, he was the organiser and first director of the UG’s Institute for the Protection of the Environment and Human Health.

Prof. Stepnowski’s scientific interests comprise research into the mechanisms of environmental pollution spread and chemical conversion, the methods of pollutant analysis and the toxicological assessment of the consequences of pollutant occurrence. In 2020, he was ranked among the 2% of the world's most influential scientists, whose publications are most often quoted by other authors. The ranking was prepared by Stanford University in cooperation with the Elsevier and SciTech Strategies.

He has published over 260 original and review research papers in periodicals listed on the so-called Philadelphia List of Journals. He was the editor of 8 publications and the author and co-author of 3 academic textbooks, as well as 15 chapters in prestigious international publications.

Rector of the Medical University of Gdańsk since 2024. A scientist, academic, pharmacist and professor of pharmaceutical sciences. Deputy dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Medical University of Gdańsk in 2012-2016 and the dean of the faculty in 2016-2020. Vice Rector for Science in the 2020-2024 term.

From the beginning of his professional career, he has been connected with his Alma Mater – first as a technical worker employed on the grant basis, then as assistant lecturer, then lecturer, associate professor and full professor at the Department and Division of Biopharmacy and Pharmacodynamics. In 2008-2012, he managed the Department and Division of Toxicology of the Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz of the Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2013, he completed postgraduate studies in Research Project Management at the Maritime Academy in Gdynia. In 2012-2016 he served as the PhD Studies Manager at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Deputy to the chairperson of the Convention of the Deans of Faculties of Pharmacy at the Conference of Rectors of Academic Medical Schools of Higher Education Institutions (KRAUM) in the 2016-2020 term.

He did many internships at recognised European research centres, for example the University of Bremen (Germany) and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. In 2000-2002 he took part in the post-doc internship, funded by the JSPS, in the Himeji Institute of Technology (now the University of Hyogo), Japan, in Professor Shigeru Terabe's team.

His main scientific interests comprise issues connected with pharmaceutical analysis, metabolomics, bioanalysis, including the uses of advanced separation techniques in clinical and environmental analyses, pharmacokinetics and biopharmacy.

Rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology since 2019 and a highly regarded scientist and expert in bridge structures, structural mechanics and diagnostics of civil structures, as well as a teacher and academic leader popular among students.

Before he became Rector of the Gdańsk Tech, a leading university of technology in northern Poland, Prof. Krzysztof Wilde served as the Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Gdańsk Tech three times. He gained his international experience, among other universities, at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he acquired the title of Doctor, and then of Associate Professor of that University. He is the author and co-author of over 200 publications and 4 patents, and in 2016 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Krzysztof Wilde is also one of the advisers of the Minister of Education and Science on infrastructure projects in Polish science and the chairman of the Rectors’ Council of the Pomeranian Region. In his work as a rector and scientist, he gives priority to the integration of the scientific community with business and to the creation of the best possible conditions for the development of gifted young scientists.

Other functions: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ENHANCE European University (since 2024)
Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities (KRASP) Academic Sports Committee (since 2024), Chairman of the Council of Rectors of the Pomeranian Region (2020-2024), Chairman of the Council of the Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Civil Engineers (since 2022), Chairman of the Academic Sports Association in Gdańsk (since 2022), Vice-Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Technical Universities (KRPUT) (since 2020), Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2016), Member of the Council of Curators of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Faculty IV, 2017), Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Hydro-Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2019), Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2019), Member of the Mechanics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2016), Member of the Committee for Civil and Water Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2011), Chairman of the Section of Structural and Materials Mechanics of the Committee for Civil and Water Engineering (CCWE) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2016-2020).

Head of the Department of Environmental Technology and Laboratory of Photocatalysis at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdańsk. A specialist in chemical technology, nanomaterials and heterogeneous photocatalysis.

For over 20 years, she has been conducting research in heterogeneous photocatalysis while managing the laboratories first at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Gdańsk University of Technology, and then since 2012 at the University of Gdańsk. She has graduated 13 Ph.D. students.

As well as being a co-founder of NanoSci, a start-up dealing with the commercialisation of air treatment devices, she is a co-author of over 140 original and review research papers in journals of the so-called Philadelphia List of Journals, 12 patents and 14 patent applications as well as more than 290 communiqués presented at national and international conferences. 
A winner of the Polish Intelligent Development Award 2020 in the Scientist of the Future category, Prof. Zaleska-Medynska is a joint creator of the prototypes of photocatalytic air treatment devices rewarded with gold medals at international invention exhibitions (Paris, Brussels, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur).

She cooperates with business circles in the use of nanomaterials with bacterio- and fungicidal as well as photocatalytic properties. 

A graduate in Genetics at the University of Gdańsk, professionally linked with the Gdańsk University of Technology for 10 years. For 5 years she has managed the Document Management and Archiving Department (COD), which is involved in the improvement of competencies and document workflow process optimisation in the administration of the Gdańsk Tech.

With many years of experience at various positions in university administration, Katarzyna specialises in the optimisation of the traditional and electronic document flow based on workflow-type mechanisms. She coordinates information and document flow, implements and supervises the Electronic Document Management system (EZD) at the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Before she started work at the Gdańsk Tech, she cooperated with non-governmental organisations including: the Pomeranian Research and Environmental Technology Centre, Ecobaltic Foundation, Foundation for Environmental Education, Regional Environmental Center, Environmental Partnership for Central Europe, and with private companies.

She has many years of experience in national and international projects in planning, implementation, control and settlement of tasks contributing to the pursuance of programme objectives, and also in cooperation with other organisations, companies and local government.