Professor Grzegorz Wrochna is responsible for overseeing all activities of the Polish Space Agency (POLSA). He leads the Agency’s work, supervising all departments. He represents the Agency both domestically and internationally.

Born on March 13, 1962, in Radom. He is a professor of physical sciences. From 1986 to 1991, he worked at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, collaborating with research centers at DESY in Hamburg and CERN in Geneva. From 1991 to 1998, he participated in the design and construction of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, particularly in designing and testing radiation-hardened electronics.

Since 1999, he has worked at the Institute of Nuclear Problems, serving as its director from 2006, and previously as the head of the Astrophysics Laboratory. He was the initiator of the establishment of the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in 2011 and served as its director until 2015. He established the Department of Particle Astrophysics within NCBJ and was a co-founder and chairman of the Polish Network for Particle Astrophysics.

In the meantime, together with Professor Makiewicz from CFT PAN, he led the “Pi of the Sky” experiment, which monitored gamma-ray bursts optically through a network of satellites. Observing one of the brightest bursts led to a joint publication with the NASA SWIFT team in „Nature”. He also promoted astronomy widely by developing methods for observing with inexpensive CCD cameras.

He has represented Poland in EURATOM program committees, the Nuclear Energy Agency OECD committees, and the Supervisory Board of the EU Joint Research Centre (since 2019). From 2017 to 2018, he was the chairman of the Committee on Scientific Policy.

From 2019 to 2020, he served as Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, overseeing, among other things, cooperation with the European Commission and European Space Agency.