Prof Grzegorz Karwasz
Grzegorz Karwasz graduated in Economics of Foreign Trade at University of Gdańsk (1982) and Technical Physics (1982) at Gdansk Polytechnics. After graduating, he worked on atomic and plasma physics at Gdansk Polytechnics and the Polish Academy of Sciences before joining the University of Trento (Italy) working there on atomic and molecular physics. He became Professor in Physics in 2005, and since 2006 has led the Division of Didactics of Physics at Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Poland.
He is the author of some 300 scientific papers in atomic, molecular and solid state physics, and also in in didactics, pedagogy and philosophy. Apart from Didactics and Physics he teaches “Science and Faith” at NCU and “Natural Philosophy” at two Catholic seminaries in Poland. Author of 10 books, including "Astronomy for Children" (2016) and “Science and Faith: a short introduction” (Aracne, Roma, 2019). Awarded by Polish Ministry of Education (2004) and Polish Physical Society (2019) for achievements in didactics and science divulgation.
Prof Piotr Roszak
Piotr is a professor of Theology at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, and an associate professor at University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, where he obtained his PhD in 2009. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas; editor-in-chief of the journal 'Scientia et Fides' dedicated to the science-religion debate, and director of the series 'Scholastica Thoruniensia', where the Polish translations of medieval biblical commentaries are published. Together with Mateusz Przanowski, Piotr is leading the project of “Opera Omnia” of St. Thomas Aquinas in Poland. In 2021 he received the Medal for Excellence in Christian Philosophy awarded by the International Étienne Gilson Society. He obtained several grants from the Templeton Foundation and the National Science Centres in Poland and in Spain. He is an honorary member of Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis and Comite de Expertos del Camino de Santiago in Spain. He published recently (with Matthew Levering and Jörgen Vijgen): Reading Hebrews with St. Thomas Aquinas (2024).