Career
Axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics, mixture theory, phase transformations in solids, non-newtonian fluids, acoustic waves in continua, crystal plasticity and the evolution of textures, thermodynamics of porous materials. postgraduate at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (United States of America, 1969-1970) visiting professor at the University of Baghdad (Iraq, 1972-1974) von Humboldt stipend (Germany, 1979) fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany, 1984-1985) visiting professor at the University of Paderborn (Germany, 1986-1987) research fellow at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany, 1987-1990) the Technical University of Berlin (Germany, 1991-1992) the University of Essen (Germany, 1992-1996) head of the Research Group Continuum Mechanics in the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in Berlin (Germany, 1996-2005) professor of Mechanics at the University of Zielona Góra (Poland, 2005-2010) 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 (publication list).
