date of birth
1973
education
Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering (1997)
degree / scientific title
- PhD – Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Hydroengineering And Environmental Engineering (2003)
employment
- Gdańsk University of Technology: assistant professor (2003–2018), senior lecturer (2018–2019), associate professor (since 2019)
academic positions
- Vice-dean for Education, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (since 2019),
- Vice-dean for Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2016–2019),
- Dean’s Representative for Students, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2005–2008)
institutional functions
- Secretary of the Section of Geotechnics and Underground Infrastructure at the Committee on Civil Engineering and Hydroengineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008-2020),
- Vice-President of Gdańsk University of Technology Alumni Association (since 2023)
external scientific placements
- INGP, Grenoble (1998)
scientific interests
- numerical modeling of soils,
- cliff seashore monitoring using mobile laser scanning,
- incrementaly-nonlinear constitutive laws: hypoplasticity and barodesy,
- soil composits and its applications,
- antropogenic soils, „green geotechnics”,
- flow modeling in unsaturated soils
publications / scientific profile
- Most Wiedzy: https://mostwiedzy.pl/en/rafal-ossowski,19323-1
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafal-Ossowski
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=c5WDp-UAAAAJ&hl=pl
awards and distinctions
- Rector Awards for research & development: I degree (2018),
- Rector Awards for organisational achievements: II degree (2018),
- Rector Awards for scientific achievements: III degree (2015),
- Rector Awards for organisational achievements: II degree (2007)
other interests
- amateur astronomy i astrophotography,
- landscape and portrait photography,
- breeder and enthusiast of White Swiss Shepherd dogs
- packrafting
