He graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw in 1990. In 1999 he earned his PhD in physical chemistry from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, and in 2011 his habilitation (DSc) in chemistry from the University of Wrocław. He is the author or co-author of 70 publications, including 8 patents, in the fields of liquid crystals, applied optics, and the use of carbon nanostructures in dual-use technologies. From 2003 to 2008, Prof. Adam Januszko conducted research at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (USA). His work there focused on new liquid crystal materials for sensing applications in electro-optics and the detection of ionizing radiation. After returning to Poland in 2008, he became Head of the New Technologies Team at the Military Institute of Engineering Technology in Wrocław. In 2013 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute. From 2012 to 2017, he was an associate professor at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. From 2018 to 2022, he served as Vice-Rector for Science at the General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces. In 2012 he completed training at the Stanford Center for Professional Development, Stanford University (California, USA), as part of the “TOP 500 Innovators” programme of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In 2016 he earned an Executive MBA from the French Institute of Management in Warsaw.
He has received numerous awards for his creative work. At the 25th and 27th International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 2014 and ITEX 2016), he won GOLD AWARDS for two inventions: “Electrochromic Device for Active Adaptive Camouflage” and “A Toolbox for Humanitarian Demining”. He also received the Minister of Science and Higher Education Award for the breakthrough technology “Kameleon – Electrochromic Device for Active and Adaptive Camouflage” (Warsaw, 2015). “A Toolbox for Humanitarian Demining”, an invention he worked on, won silver medals at the Salon International des Inventions in Geneva (2016) and at the TRINEC International Exhibition of Technical Innovations, Patents and Inventions in the Czech Republic (2016). Another innovative technology, “Liquid crystal display based cascade ionizing radiation detector visualizing in real time”, won gold medals at the Silicon Valley International Invention Festival in Santa Clara, California (June 2018) and at the Hong Kong International Invention Design Competition (December 2018).
Research interests: carbon nanostructures, liquid crystals and their applications, radiation and sensors, electrochromic materials, color management, and dual-use technologies. Adam Januszko meets the independence criterion.