dr hab. inż. Piotr Sankowski

Piotr Sankowski is a professor at the Institute of Informatics at the University of Warsaw, where he was awarded his habilitation in 2009 and his doctorate in computer science in 2005. His research interests focus on problems of the practical application of algorithms, ranging from economic applications, through learning data structures, to parallel algorithms for data science. In 2009, he also obtained a doctorate in physics in the field of solid-state theory.

He is the first Pole to receive four European Research Council (ERC) grants: ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant (2010), ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2015 and 2023), and ERC Consolidator Grant (2017). He is a co-founder of the MIM  Solutions spin-off, and since 2021, he has been serving as the President of the Board and Research Group Leader at IDEAS NCBR.