Marcin Konkol
Head of the ORLEN Research and Development Center
Dr hab. Marcin Konkol is an R&D manager with over 20 years of experience in research area, a broad multidisciplinary expertise and strong international bacground (Germany, Japan, UK, Poland). Graduated from University of Wrocław, obtained Ph.D. from Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He was a scholarship holder of a Socrates-Erasmus Programme at University of East Anglia. Contract researcher at John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK), RWTH Aachen (Germany) and Sumitomo-Mitsui (Sodegaura, Japan). For over 5 years as a Deputy Director for Research responsible for R&D in a research institute. Currently, he is a Head of the ORLEN Research and Development Center. Author and co-author of over 50 scientific papers, co-author of 6 patents and 6 patent applications. Marcin is a manager effective in obtaining external funds for scientific research, co-author and contractor of a number of projects financed from national and EU sources.