Prof. Tomasz Komornicki

Professor Tomasz Komornicki, born 1963, a graduate of the Warsaw University (1988), PhD in Polish Academy of Sciences (1998), head of the Department of Spatial Organization in the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS, since 2006), professor at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (since 2005); President of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning (since 2019), PAS, head and participant of many Polish and international research project (including HORIZON 2020, ESPON and INTERREG); member of the Consulting Board for preparation of the Spatial Development Concept of Poland up to 2030 (in the Ministry of Regional Development; 2011); member of the international scientific team preparing the Territorial Agenda of the European Union 2020. Author of more than 450 scientific publications. His main area of interest are socio-economic geography, transport geography, political geography, border studies and spatial planning.