e-mail: jozef@jozefgrochowicz.com / j.grochowicz@vistula.edu.pl
Faculty: Tourism and Recreation
Field of study: Dietetics / Tourism and Recreation
Specialist in the field of food engineering recognized in Poland and abroad; he published his research findings in the form of several dozen compact publications and over 500 peer- reviewed scientific papers (including one book published in English for the US Dept. of
Agriculture); organizer of periodic Summer Schools for young academics; co-founder of the Polish Society of Food Engineering and Technology “SPOMASZ” (currently, honorary president); operates in international organizations and scientific institutions, holds positions of his own choice and by nomination – currently honorary Vice President of the CIGR (Commission Internationale du Genie Rurale), vice president of the Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering (AAAE), member of the Advisory Board of Kaziranga University in India; doctor honoris causa of the Koszalin University of Technology; awarded with the Medal of the National Education Commission, the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta; holder of the title of “Zasłużony Racjonalizator” (Deserved Innovator) – awarded by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland for patented inventions.
Research interests:
• food quality and safety;
• gastronomic technology and catering;
• principles of design and technological equipment for catering and hotel facilities;
• new technologies for minimal processing of raw materials;
• science of food commodities;
• functional food and the principles of its design;
• culinary heritage;
• promotion of the principles of rational nutrition;
• catering support for the functioning and development of various forms of tourism;
• agrotourism
• enotourism