Prof. Edmund Wittbrodt PhD, DSc, Eng. from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology at Gdańsk Tech has been unanimously elected the chairman of the Space Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk for the term 2021-2025. Prof. Andrzej Stepnowski, who chairs the Space and Satellite Technologies Section in the Committee was also elected to the presidium of the Committee.
The Space Sciences Committee, operating since 2017, is one of the ten committees of the Gdańsk Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences (other committees: the Vistula Delta Water Management Committee, the Sopot Art and Culture History Committee, the Maritime and Tropical Medicine Committee, the Space Sciences Committee, the Maritime Law Committee, The Maritime Sociology Committee, the Ecosphere Committee, the IT Committee, the Northern Poland Spatial Development Committee, the Medical Sciences Committee).