Aldona Kluczek | Energy | Best Researcher Award
Warsaw University of Technology | Poland
Dr. Aldona Kluczek is an Associate Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology with academic and research experience in energy efficiency, Industry technologies, and sustainability practices. She earned her M.Sc. in Mechanics and Machine Design and her Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from the Warsaw University of Technology, followed by a habilitation in Technical Sciences from the Cracow University of Technology with her monograph Contemporary Trends in Energy Sustainability for Manufacturing SMEs: Overview, Perspectives, and Assessment Approaches. She also holds an Executive MBA from the Warsaw University of Technology and completed several postgraduate programs in quality, environment, industrial safety, and business process analysis. Dr. Kluczek has an extensive teaching portfolio, having delivered courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in quality engineering, project and technology management, and operations research, and has supervised theses and dissertations, including BA, MA, and Ph.D. projects. She currently serves as Head of the Division of Management and Quality at the Institute of Production Systems Organization and is a member of the Sustain research group. Her research has resulted in more than peer-reviewed publications, and she authored a widely recognized monograph as part of her habilitation. Internationally, she gained experience as a Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan, where she conducted industrial energy audits for the U.S. Department of Energy. Her work integrates technical innovation with sustainable industrial practices, reflecting her commitment to advancing energy sustainability and Industry in manufacturing systems.
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Featured Publications
Buczacki, A., Gładysz, B., Kluczek, A., Krystosiak, K., Ejsmont, K., Maleńczyk, I., Guerra, R. H., Palmer, P., & van Erp, T. (2025). The role of sustainability competences for IT systems engineers: Insights from a multiple case study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Gładysz, B., Krystosiak, K., Buczacki, A., Quadrini, W., Ejsmont, K., Kluczek, A., Park, J., & Fumagalli, L. (2024). Sustainability and Industry 4.0 in the packaging and printing industry: A diagnostic survey in Poland. Engineering Management in Production and Services, 16(1), 51–67.
Woźniak, A., Kluczek, A., & Nycz, P. D. (2024). Approach for identifying the impact of local wind and spatial conditions on wind turbine blade geometry. International Journal of Energy Research, 2024, 1–13.
Woźniak, A., Kluczek, A., Ślusarczyk, B., Żegleń, P., & Górka, M. (2024). The impact of local wind and spatial conditions on geometry blade of wind turbine. Energy Science & Engineering, 1–14.
Gładysz, B., Wiśniewski, M., Kluczek, A., Młodzianowski, P., & Szymanek, A. (2023). Tracking sustainable Industry 4.0 for listed companies. Przegląd Organizacji, 2023(3), 124–138.