politician university professor
1961: Master"s in Engineering
1965: Doctorate
1968: Assistant professor
1972: Associate professor
1978: Professor of technical sciences.
1961: Master"s in Engineering 1961-1962: Assistant 1962-1965: Post-graduate doctoral student in Moscow 1965-1968: Tutor 1968-1972: Assistant professor since 1972: Professor at the Silesian University of Technology 1969-1972: Head of the foundry institute 1972-1982: Head of the Metallurgical Sciences and Technology Department, director of the Institute of Materials Engineering 1982-1989: Visiting professor at the Technische Universität Dresden Head of the Department of Materials Technology Since 1994: Head of the Department of Technology, Metal Alloys and Composites Since 2001: Gierek Association.
Gierek is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and, a member of the Delegation to the European Union-Kazakhstan, European Union-Kyrgyzstan and European Union-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia and a substitute for the Delegation to the American College of Physicians-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Since 1973: Associate member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk)
2001-2004: Senator of the Republic of Poland, member of the Committee on Science, and Sport
2001-2003: Member of the Committee on Legislation, Law and Order
2004: Member of the Committee on Environmental Protection
Since 1970: Member of the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations (NOT)
Member of the board of the All-Poland East
Member of the Polish Nuclear Society (PTN) and committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences.