Jacek Błażewicz

Jacek Antoni Błażewicz (born 11 August 1951, Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist specializing in the theory of algorithms and bioinformatics. He has been working as Director of the Institute of Computer Sciences of the Poznań University of Technology. He is also Head of the Department of Bioinformatics at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

He was born on 11 August 1951, in Poznań, Polish People's Republic. He graduated in control engineering with honours from the Poznań University of Technology in 1974. In 1977, he obtained a doctoral degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 1980, he received his habilitation and in 1987 he became a full professor. Between 1981-1984, he worked as a vice-Dean of the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Poznan University of Technology. In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems. In the years 1994-1999 he was also employed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Since 1999 he has been working at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 2012-2013, he was a member of the National Science Centre. He is most notable for his research into DNA sequencing, DNA computing and the theory of algorithms. In 2012, he shared the Copernicus Award (together with Erwin Pesch) "for their joint research and development of algorithms in the field of scheduling and bioinformatics".