**Meet the editors**

Prof. Tomasz Tański is the head of the Center for Nanotechnology and vice director of the Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials at the Silesian University of Technology, a member of the Metallurgy Section of the Metallurgy Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a specialist in nonferrous alloy materials, composite materials and nanostructures, manufacturing

engineering, surface, the study of the properties, and in structure engineering materials. He authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific publications worldwide including 12 monographs and books and more than 40 publications in the Philadelphia list, won 18 awards and honors, national and international, is and/or was a supervisor or contractor of more than 15 research and didactic projects in Poland and abroad, and is a reviewer and promoter of numerous scientific papers, including 4 doctoral researches in the field of nanotechnology.

Dr. Wojciech Borek, PhD and MSc in Engineering, is an assistant professor in the Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, and a member of the association of Polish Cluster of Innovative Forging Technologies "HEFAJSTOS." His scientific interests include materials science, heat treatment, thermome-

chanical treatment, plastic deformations, and Gleeble simulations. He is an author and coauthor of ca. 50 scientific publications worldwide including 2 chapters in books and more than 15 publications in the Philadelphia list, he won 10 awards and honors, national and international, he is and/or was a contractor of more than 5 research and didactic projects in Poland and abroad, and a reviewer and copromoter of numerous scientific publications, including 2 doctoral researches.
