In 1995 I started to work at the University of Gdansk, in the Computer Science Group (Institute of Mathematics), led by Andrzej W. Mostowski. In 2000 I took a research leave in Gdansk and moved to the University of Twente (Enschede, the Netherlands), where I worked as an "AIO" (Assistent In Opleiding - trainee research assistant) in the HMI Group, under supervision of Anton Nijholt. The group used to be called Language Engineering Group not so long ago, but it had managed to change its name to Taal, Kennis en Interactie (Language, Knowledge and Interaction) and then to Parlevink before I joined it. The name was changed once again to Human Media Interaction shortly before I finished my PhD in 2004. Changes of the name and the research direction aside, I enjoyed staying there and working with the group very much.
Since I left, no further name changes have been implemented. A coincidence?
After doing my PhD, I moved to Clausthal-Zellerfeld in Germany, and joined Juergen Dix and his newly created Computational Intelligence Group. It was a perfect place for further development, with much freedom for research, the Harz mountains around, solid German beer, and German cuisine so similar to Polish. I developed myself, established the development formally through habilitation, and moved on. To Luxembourg.
We are still in touch, and in fact formally I am still a member of the Clausthal University as a Privatdozent. If I understand corectly, this means I have the right to do unpaid work for the university. Call it economical thinking... They aren't dumb, these German universities, are they? ;-)
In May 2009, I joined the University of Luxembourg. I work as a senior postdoc in the Individual and Collective Reasoning group and the Security and Trust of Software Systems group. Luxembourg is a very nice place, with plenty of sightseeing spots around. Working at the university is fun. And even the sun shines... er, well... sometimes.
