The Rector-Elect of the Jagiellonian University Prof. Piotr Jedynak will assume office on 1 September 2024. On May 8, the names of six Vice-Rectors with whom he will cooperate during the 2024-2028 term-in-office were officially announced. The candidates proposed by Prof. Jedynak were approved by the Jagiellonian University Electoral College consisting of 238 representatives of the whole academic community.
In accordance with the JU Statute, the JU Vice-Rector must be an academic teacher holding the title of full or associate professor and employed by the Jagiellonian University as his/her main employer. The Vice-Rector for the Medical College is appointed from among academics from three medical faculties, while the candidate for the Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs has to be chosen with the approval of the student and doctoral student government. The Rector can choose up to six Vice-Rectors, who are appointed for a 4-year term in office, provided that they do not serve more than two subsequent terms.
The incumbent Vice-Rector for University Development Prof. Jarosław Górniak will become the new Vice-Rector for International Relations. The remaining five positions will be occupied by academics who have not served as JU Vice-Rectors yet.
The incumbent Vice-Rector for the Medical College Prof. Piotr Grodzicki will be replaced by the current Dean of the JU MC Faculty of Medicine Prof. Maciej Małecki, who also heads the JU MC Chair in Metabolic Diseases and the JU MC Clinic of Metabolic Diseases. He specialises in internal diseases, diabetology, laboratory diagnostics and endocrinology.
After two terms-in-office of Prof. Armen Edigarian, Prof. Paweł Laidler will become the new Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs. The newly elected Vice-Rector has been the Dean of the JU Faculty of International and Political Studies since 2020, and his research interests focus on American constitutionalism, comparative constitutional law, American law, US Supreme Court, conflicts between law and politics, American criminal procedure, and national security policy.
The position of the Vice-Rector for University Development will be assumed by Prof. Bartosz Brożek, a cognitive scientist, philosopher and lawyer, the incumbent Vice-Dean of the JU Faculty of Law and Administration and Director of the JU Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. His scholarly interests comprise the theory and philosophy of law; philosophy of science, language and mind; moral, mathematical and legal cognition; theories of rationality; the problem of normativity; relations between natural sciences and theology as well as theories of argumentation and negotiation.
Dr hab. Joanna Zalewska-Gałosz, Prof. UJ, the current Dean of the JU Faculty of Biology, was chosen the new Vice-Rector for Human Resources and Financial Management. As a researcher, she is primarily interested in taxonomy and phylogenesis of plants, with the special focus on the aquatic taxa Potamogeton and Ranunculus sect. Batrachium, hybridisation and microevolution, phylogeography, populational genetics of plants, floristics of mosses and liverworts, and environmental protection.
Finally, Prof. Wojciech Macyk will take up the position of the Vice-Rector for Research, currently held by Prof. Piotr Kuśtrowski. The Vice-Rector-Elect currently serves as the Dean of the JU Faculty of Chemistry. His scientific interests include photocatalytic processes mechanisms, redox properties of photocatalysts, photocatalytic detoxication and disinfection, photocatalytic binding of carbon dioxide as well as photoelectrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of semiconductors.
