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Dr Hab. Karolina Aszyk
University of Gdansk, Poland

Graduate of the Department of Painting and Graphic Arts of the Kracow Academy of Fine Arts, assistant professor in the Department of Media Systems and Mass Communication at the University of Gdansk.

Contact: k.aszyk[at]ug.edu.pl

Rev. Dr Hab. Roman Bogacz
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland

Professor of the Pontifical University of John Paul II (UPJPII), has been working since 1991 at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Academy of Theology (now the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow). Since 1994, lecturer in Sacred Scripture and Biblical Archaeology. Since 2008, Head of the Chair of Biblical Theology and Biblical Informatics at the Faculty of Theology of UPJPII. Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Theology at UPJPII from 2012 to 2019, Head of the Theology Department in 2019/2020. He specialises in the study of the Epistle to the Hebrews, biblical archaeology and theology, and in exploring the biblical environment. Since 1992, he has organised regular trips to the Middle East (Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Greece) in the form of research expeditions for students (archaeology, biblical studies) and pilgrimages for religious, educational and cognitive purposes; he cooperates with ecclesiastical and secular travel and travel agencies. He holds licenses as a tour guide and spiritual animator for pilgrimages for Israel. Head of the Biblical Section of the Polish Theological Society, member of the Board of the Association of Polish Biblical Scholars and the Board of the Association of Tour Group Guides Gaudeamus.

Contact: roman.bogacz[at]upjp2.edu.pl

Dr Hab. Tomasz Graff
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland

Professor of the Pontifical University of John Paul II (UPJPII), medievalist and historian of the early modern period, graduate of the master’s and doctoral studies in history at the Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Since 2008 professionally attached to the Pontifical Academy of Theology, now the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. From 2012 to 2016 – deputy director of the Institute of Art History and Culture; from 2016 to 2019 – deputy dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Heritage; currently he is head of the Department of Modern History at the Institute of History and head of the History Department at UPJPII. He is the author of approximately 200 publications, mainly on Church history and the biographies of ecclesiastical, intellectual and political elites. He is a member of the Central European Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Workgroup of Czech History and Polish-Czech Relations of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Historical Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences branch in Krakow, the Polish Historical Society, the Polish Syndonological Centre, the Society of Lovers of Krakow History and Monuments, as well as the editorial boards of the journals: “Husitský Tábor”, “Wadoviana”, “Przegląd Historyczno-Kulturalny” and “Folia Historica Cracoviensia”.

Contact: tomasz.graff[at]upjp2.edu.pl

Dr Marcin Grala
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland

Medievalist, lecturer at the Institute of History of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, member of the Department of Ancient and Medieval History of this university. He researches the history of Ruthenia with particular emphasis on the history of the Eastern Church in the Byzantine and medieval Slavic areas. Member of the Polish Society of Byzantinology.

Contact: marcin.grala[at]upjp2.edu.pl

Miłosz Grygierczyk, MA

Graduate in Spanish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1998) and from the National School of Public Administration in Warsaw (2000), the Diplomatic School of Spain in Madrid (2005) and international relations at the University of Madrid (2005). He also completed doctoral studies in history at the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007) and a postgraduate course for specialist English translators at the Linguistic School of Higher Education in Warsaw (2019).

Contact: miloszek1712[at]netscape.net

Prof. Dr Hab. Jan S. Jaworski
University of Warsaw, Poland

Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Warsaw. He conducted research in the field of electrochemistry of organic compounds (list of publications). Since 1982, he has followed the scientific research of the Turin Shroud and popularized it in numerous articles and lectures. Associated with the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow since its foundation.

Contact: jaworski[at]chem.uw.edu.pl

Mariusz Kiełbasa, LC, Msc
Polish Syndonological Centre, Kraków, Poland

MSc in computer physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and MA in theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Delegate of the International Center of Syndonology in Turin and director of the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow. Superior of the religious community of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ in Cracow. Former director of the House of the Apostles in Cracow. Pastor and spiritual director.

Contact: mkielbasa[at]legionisci.org

Prof. Dr Hab. Wojciech Kucewicz
AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

Researcher staff member at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. He is a specialist in the field of silicon detectors of ionizing radiation, which he has been involved in since they first appeared in applications for physical experiments in counter-rotating beam accelerators. He participated in the pioneering work of building silicon apex detectors at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN in Switzerland. He participated in the construction of silicon detectors for several high-energy physics experiments. Since 2000, he has also been involved in the development of measurement systems based on silicon photomultipliers. He has worked and lectured for many years at universities abroad: University of Milan, University of Ferrara, Insubria University of Como (Italy), University of Strasbourg (France), University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) and University of Karlsruhe (Germany). He has been the director or principal investigator of seven national grants and five European grants. His scientific output includes more than 700 publications and three international patents. He was a member of the Council of the National Science Centre (2016-2020) and a member of ministerial advisory panels on several occasions. He is an associate of the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow.

Contact: kucewicz[at]agh.edu.pl

Dr Joanna Małocha
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland

Historian, archivist and archaeologist; lecturer at the Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Cultural Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, currently employed at the Institute of History of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. Her area of research interest includes testimonies of the cult of martyrs and holy places. On a side note, she is also interested in the art and literature of Egyptian Christians and the methodology of teaching the Coptic language.

Contact: joanna.malocha[at]upjp2.edu.pl

Rev. Prof. Dr Hab. Józef Naumowicz
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland

Historian of early Christian literature, lecturer at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and at the Higher Metropolitan Seminary in Warsaw. Author of numerous books.

Contact: j.naumowicz[at]uksw.edu.pl

Prof. Dr Hab. Krzysztof Pilarczyk
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

Staff member at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Center of the History of Christian-Jewish Relations, associate at the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow. His interests focus on the history of Judaism, biblical and apocryphal literature, the origins of Christianity, interreligious dialogue, sindonology, Jewish book culture and religious tourism (Middle East). He publishes his scholarly activity on his website. Author of more than 300 scientific publications.

Dr Hab. Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki
Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland

Professor of the Jagiellonian University, physicist, graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, independent employee of the Department of Physics of Nanostructures and Nanotechnology of the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University, co-author of several dozen scientific articles on processes in strong laser fields, microscopy of close interactions, polymerization on metal oxide surfaces, formation of organic nanostructures and surface functionalization, application of physics to the needs of conservation and restoration of works of art, quantum information technology. Author of several popular science articles.

Contact: jakub.prauzner-bechcicki[at]uj.edu.pl

Krzysztof Sadło, MA
Polish Syndonological Centre, Kraków, Poland

Graduate in international relations at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (2011). He also completed doctoral studies in political science at this university. Long-term curator of the exhibition „Who is the Man from the Shroud?” at the John Paul II Centre in Krakow. Director of the Evangelization Committee of the Polish Syndonological Centre. Frequently travels around Poland with lectures on the Shroud and related topics. Cultural animator at the John Paul II Institute for Intercultural Dialogue in Krakow, editor-in-chief of the franciszkanska3.pl portal, publicist and documentary filmmaker. Leader and founder of the Catholic community “Koinonia” in Krakow. A lover of mountain hiking.

Contact: krzysztof.sadlo[at]gmail.com

Prof. Dr Hab. Władysław Sinkiewicz, MD
Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

Graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Gdańsk. Co-founder and first head of the Second Chair and Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital No. 2 in Bydgoszcz. Author of over 400 scientific publications and author or editor of nine monographs on bioethics. Member of the National Examination Committee of the Postgraduate Medical Education Center in the field of cardiology. Reviewer in four scientific journals and member of the Scientific Council of four scientific journals. Member of the European Society of Cardiology, the Polish Society of Cardiology, the Polish Society of Arterial Hypertension, the Polish Society of Internal Medicine, the Polish Brain Stroke Society and the Polish Society for Spiritual Care in Medicine. Associate of the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow. Co-founder of the Club of Catholic Intelligentsia in Bydgoszcz. Chairman of the Bioethics Committee of the Bydgoszcz Medical Chamber, chairman of the Ethics Team at University Hospital No. 2 in Bydgoszcz, and former chairman of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Division of the Catholic Association of Polish Physicians.

Contact: bizkard[at]by.onet.pl

Prof. Dr Hab. Zbigniew Treppa
University of Gdansk, Poland

Full professor at the Institute of Media, Journalism and Visual Communication, University of Gdańsk, Head of the Department of Image Anthropology, Associate of the Polish Syndonological Centre in Krakow, Member of the Syndonological Section of the Polish Theological Society. In his research work he undertakes issues of visual theology, using the tools of image semiotics, he analyses artefacts of religious cult and structural properties of non-human-hand-made images (Greek: acheiropoietos). He has recently published The Phenomenon of the Image of Incarnate Mercy (Gdansk 2021).

Contact: zbigniewtreppa[at]icloud.com

Dr Bartłomiej Wołyniec
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland

Historian of the modern period. Graduate of history studies at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and doctoral studies in the discipline of history at the Faculty of History of the Jagiellonian University. Since 2020, he has been affiliated with the Institute of History at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow. He deals with the history of the Church in the modern period, with particular emphasis on the activities of the Bishops of Cracow, and auxiliary sciences of history. Member of the Polish Heraldic Society and the editorial board of the journal “Folia Historica Cracoviensia”.

Contact: bartlomiej.wolyniec[at]upjp2.edu.pl

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