Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee:

Witold Wisniowski

Director of the Institute of Aviation

Jaime Martins de Santana

Dean of Research and Post-Graduate Studies at the UnB

Prof. George Osypowicz

Institute of Aviation

Prof. Witold Wiśniowski

Professor Witold Wiśniowski is Director of the Institute of Aviation and the main initiator of the strategic cooperation between the Institute of Aviation and leading aviation companies in the USA. Witold Wiśniowski is also a co-organiser of the Polish – Brazilian Conference on Science and Technology.

Mechanical Engineer, PhD, a graduate of the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Warsaw, his entire professional career is dedicated to aviation. Witold Wiśniowski has been whole-heartedly committed to the development and future of the Institute of Aviation.

Witold Wiśniowski continues his scientific career in the area of structural dynamics of flying objects.


For 16 years now, he has been supporting the organization of a Polish-American Conference on Science & Technology, and is an active member of the Management of the Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics EREA, the Polish Association of Engineers and Technicians SIMP, the Main Council of the Research Institutes, and Committees of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Jaime Martins de Santana

Prof. Dr. Jaime Martins de Santana is a biologist with a master’s in molecular biology – UNB – 1988 and a PhD in Molecular Pathology – UNB / University of Poitiers, France – in 1993. He was a visiting professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris (1994) and a research associate at Northwestern University – Chicago – in 1997/98. He is a professor in the Department of Cell Biology at UNB since 1989 (Full Professor). He was Head of the Department of Cell Biology, member of several boards of UNB and Coordinator for 3 mandates, the Graduate Program in Molecular Pathology, Faculty of Medicine. Member of the Medical Committee I of CAPES evaluation of Graduate Studies and National SBPC Advisor. He is Dean of Research and Graduate Studies and Vice-President of the University of Brasilia since 11/2012.

Prof. George Osypowicz

Professor George Osypowicz is an economist, businessman and philanthropist. In 1995 he was Chair of the Organising Committee of the 1st World Polonia Economic Conference. Currently he is an advisor to the Director of the Institute. In the years 1991-1999 he was Vice Chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in Poland. In 2008 through 2015 he was Chair of the Organising Committee of the 9thto 15th Polish – American Conferences on Science and Technology.