Aurelia Rybak is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Automation of the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering, and Industrial Automation at the Silesian University of Technology. For over 15 years, she has been conducting research on the development of clean coal technologies, energy security, and energy transition. She has managed and coordinated projects aimed at the development of clean coal technologies. She is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications, as well as a patent related to this topic. She has participated in many international scientific conferences, including COP24, where she presented the results of her research on CCT technologies and sustainable energy transformation. She is also a member of the advisory team of the European Commission, among others, in the field of technologies supporting coal regions in transition.
Aleksandra Rybak is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Silesian University of Technology. For over 20 years, she has been conducting research on the development of membrane techniques based on modern hybrid membranes used in the development of clean coal technologies (CCTs), which are an important element related to energy security and energy transition. She managed and coordinated several projects aimed at developing membrane techniques used in clean coal technologies. She is the author and co-author of numerous scientific publications, awards, as well as a patent related to this subject. She participated in many international scientific conferences, among others, COP24, where she presented the results of her research on membrane technologies at CCTs. She is also a reviewer and expert of the European Commission (Clean Hydrogen, HaDEA, EISMEA, REA, EASME, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND, etc.), the National Centre for Research and Development, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the European Science Foundation (ESF) Expert Database, the Czech Science Foundation and the Slovak Research and Development Agency. She also works as the editorial board member of many journals and was editor of few special issues of Electronics, Membranes and Metals.
