Head of the Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw; Head of the Laboratory of Information Technologies in Management
He has served as the Head of the Department of Management Information Systems since 2009.
Selected stages of academic career
- Master’s degree in Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, major: Economic Cybernetics and Informatics, February 1978. Master’s thesis: “Efficiency of the Application of Information Technology in the Management of Commercial Aviation on the Example of LOT Polish Airlines”.
- PhD in Organization and Management Sciences, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, 11 April 1984. Doctoral dissertation: “Modelling Regional Development. Problems of Information Flows”.
- Assistant Professor (research and teaching position), 1984-1997.
- Habilitated Doctor in Economic Sciences in the field of Management Sciences, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, 22 January 1997. Habilitation dissertation: Information Systems Supporting Management. The Modelling Aspect in Systems Design, Elipsa Publishing House, Warsaw, 1996.
- Vice-Dean for Student Affairs, 1996-1998.
- Vice-Dean for International Cooperation, 1998-1999.
- Director of the two-year English-language Master’s programme International Business Program, 2000-2002.
- Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, 1998-2006.
- Head of the Laboratory of Management Information Systems, 2003-2008.
- Head of the Division of Information Systems Design, 2008.
- Vice-Dean for Informatics, 2005-2008.
- Academic Director of postgraduate programmes, 2006-2007.
- Full Professor of Economic Sciences, from 12 October 2006, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, awarded on the basis of his academic achievements and the professorial monograph Electronic Banking Systems, Difin, Warsaw, 2005.
- Head of the Department of Management Information Systems, 2009.
Main research areas
He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and 50 books or book chapters, focusing on contemporary aspects of the application of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in business in the context of digital transformation. His current research interests include the development and application of ICT in the economy and society, in particular the practical implementation of AI and RPA in organizations, comparative analyses of e-commerce and m-commerce systems, and models of IT adaptation to user requirements.
Selected publications
- Aspects of Implementing RPA in an IT Company, 2025, Witold Chmielarz, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Computational Science – ICCS 2025 Workshops, Part IV.
- Conception of Intelligent Systems for the Creation and Sustainable Use of Human Resources in the IT Sector, 2025, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Witold Chmielarz, Emerging Challenges in Intelligent Management Information Systems, ECAI 2024 IMIS, Vol. 1.
- Determinants of IT Project Management. The Experts Comparative Study between Poland and Serbia, 2025, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Witold Chmielarz, Angela Fajsi, Slobodan Moraca, ISD2025 Proceedings.
- Comparative Analysis and Evaluation of eHealth Portals in Poland and Turkey during the Post-pandemic Period, 2025, Witold Chmielarz, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Mesut Atasever, ECAI Conference Proceedings (forthcoming).
- Conditions of Building a Career in the IT Sector from the Point of View of Students of Selected Universities in Poland, 2024, Witold Chmielarz, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, Emerging Challenges, ECAI 2024 – IMIS, Vol. 2.
- On Comparison of the Results of Selected Multicriteria Methods Applied in the Assessment of Banking Websites in Poland in 2022, 2024, Witold Chmielarz, Marek Zborowski, Emerging Challenges, ECAI 2023 – IMIS Workshop.
- Version [1.1] – Handling Decision-Making in an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Environment: PyIFDM Package, 2024, Jakub Więckowski, Bartłomiej Kizielewicz, Witold Chmielarz, Wojciech Sałabun, SoftwareX, Vol. 25.
- Awareness of Career Development Opportunities in IT. A Comparative Analysis across Selected Universities in Poland, 2023, Witold Chmielarz et al., Przegląd Organizacji.
- On the Analysis of Green Energy Portals/Applications in China, Spain, Poland, and Türkiye for Sustainable Societal Development, 2023, Félix Puime-Guillén et al., Silesian University of Technology Scientific Papers. Organization & Management, No. 184.
