Ryszard Uklejewski is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He received an MSc from Poznan University of Technology, Poland (1974), and a Ph.D. at the Technical University of Lodz (in Electromechanics, 1979), and studied mathematics (1976-1980) at the University of Lodz, Poland. He graduated from Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland), and received a Ph.D. in Medicine (in Endocrinology) at the University of Medical Sciences in Poznan (2010). He worked (1974-1996) in the Department of Mechanics and Acoustics of Porous Materials at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1995, he received the Habilitation in Biomedical Engineering from the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences. He works (1997 until now) at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland) as the Head of the Department of Medical Bioengineering Fundamentals in the Institute of Technology, and he is currently the Chair of Constructional Materials and Biomaterials at the Faculty of Materials Engineering. His main research areas are structural–biomechanical biocompatibility of bone–implant interface, bone tissue biomechatronics, and the endocrinology of the growing human skeleton.
Mariusz Winiecki is an Assistant Professor and the Chair of Constructional Materials and Biomaterials at the Faculty of Materials Engineering at the Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland. In 2001, he received a MSc in Mechanical Engineering (specialization in Mechatronics) at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and in 2006, he received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, for a PhD thesis on the investigation of the micro-geometrical constructional properties of porous endosseous implants and the influence of these properties on the strength of the bone–implant model fixation. In 2007, he finished Postgraduate Studies in the field of Biomaterials Engineering at AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland, and since 2007, he has been a member of the Polish Society for Biomaterials. His main research areas in the field of biomaterial engineering are the engineering of bone–implant interfacing and designing and implanting surface functionalization towards improving the conditions for osseointegration. He was a key investigator of two research projects of the Polish Ministry of Science and the National Science Centre Poland concerning the design, prototyping, SLM manufacturing, and development of essential innovation in the fixation of components of a new generation of entirely cementless resurfacing hip arthroplasty endoprostheses in the subchondral trabecular bone via the biomimetic multi-spiked connecting scaffold.
Mikołaj Dąbrowski is a specialist in orthopaedics and traumatology of the presumption. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and the Medical University of Medicine Karol Marcinkowski in Poznań. He works in the Department of Orthopaedics of the Adult Orthopaedic-Rehabilitation Hospital of the Clinical Hospital W. W. Dega UM in Poznań. His research area includes orthopedics; foot deformation: ribs, hammer fingers; the wrist canal system; elbow nerve groove syndrome; and modern methods of surgical treatment in the field of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, including hip and knee joints and in the spine. He has 32 publications with 215 citations and an h-index of 8 (Scopus, 28 December 2023).
Piotr Rogala is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Spine Surgery, Oncologic Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan (Poland) and the Institute of Health Sciences, State School of Higher Education in Gniezno (Poland) with more than 30 years of international clinical experience (France, Tunisia, Republic of South Africa), and the orthopaedic biomechanics Consultant in the Department of Medical Bioengineering Fundamentals, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). He is the inventor and patent owner of the new model of resurfacing arthroplasty endoprostheses and the author of the original concept of the multi-spiked connecting scaffold (MSC-Scaffold) for fixation of resurfacing arthroplasty components in surrounding bone with minimally invasive operating procedures. He is a member of several international scientific associations (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, European Orthopaedic Research Society, European Federation for Research in Rehabilitation, etc.). He is particularly interested in orthopaedic biomechanics, the etiopathology of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, and clinical genetics of bone diseases. He is the author of more than 170 research publications and is the head of two research projects of the Polish Ministry of Science in the field of clinical orthopaedics and genetics.