Lucyna Nyka

Lucyna Nyka (PhD, DSc) is a full Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland. She presently holds the position of Head of the Department of Urban Architecture and Waterscapes, and since 2016 has been Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. Her research interests focus on issues concerning historical hydrographies, water-related architecture and urban landscapes. Professor Nyka is involved in several transdisciplinary research studies on urban environment and re-naturalisation of cities. She is the author, co-author and expert in many European research projects, and at present is involved in the H2020 SOS Climate Waterfront project focused on linking research and innovation on waterfront studies to face climate change. She is a council member of the Architecture and Urbanism Committee at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), one of the Vice-Presidents of the International Academic Advisory Committee of the World Institute for Engineering and Technology Education (WIETE-IAAC), based in Melbourne, Australia, and a member of the Research Committee for Valencia International Biennial of Research in Architecture (VIBRArch). She is a reviewer of several journals, and a member of numerous editorial boards in Poland and abroad, including such journals as the Global Journal of Engineering Education (GJEE), the World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education (WTE&TE) (Melbourne), the Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, (New York), Architecture and Urbanism Quarterly (Warsaw).