Igor Kosacki

Igor Kosacki has extensive experience in materials science and engineering. Igor is currently the Director of Materials Science at Utility Global since 2022. Prior to this, they served as a Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown starting in 2020. Igor also worked as an Expert at Narodowe Centrum Badan i Rozwoju in 2019. From 2013 to 2020, they were a Materials Engineering Manager at Honeywell Process Solutions and led a team of 25 people while developing materials research programs. Igor held the position of Senior Scientist at Shell from 2006 to 2013, where they initiated and developed a nanotechnology R&D program for oil and gas. Before that, they worked as a Senior Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2001 to 2006, focusing on nanocrystalline oxide thin films and mesoporous composites. Igor also served as an Associate Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology from 1995 to 2001, researching nanocrystalline materials and their applications in electrochemical devices. Igor Kosacki started their career as a Visiting Professor at MIT School of Engineering from 1992 to 1995, conducting research on ion conducting materials and defect equilibria in ceramic oxides.

Igor Kosacki holds a Professor of Physical Sciences title, which is the highest Polish scientific honor awarded by the President of Poland. Prior to this, they earned a Habilitation Doctoral Degree in Physics from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Igor also holds a PhD in Solid State Physics from the same institute. Their educational journey started at the University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin, where they obtained a Master of Science (MS) degree in Experimental Physics.