Competitor Zone

Marcin Wygachiewicz

Head of the Jury Board – ERC2021

I have been working at SENER Poland since 2015. Previously, I worked as a Design Engineer for one of the leading manufacturers of turbine components for the Oil & Gas and avia on industry. Then I worked as YGT in the Mechanisms Section of the European Space Agency in ESTEC, Netherlands. At SENER Poland, I am responsible, among others, for development of deployment mechanisms and hold-down and release mechanisms (ATHENA, PROBA-3, SAOCOM) and the clamping mechanism (e.Deorbit). This is the fourth edition of the European Rover Challenge during which I am involved in judging the competition as well as evaluating presenttions and documentation provided by the teams.

Szymon Dzwończyk

Head of the Jury Board (REMOTE) – ERC2021

I'm a cofounder of Leo Rover, a mobile robot used by the teams in the Remote Edition. I came a full circle from being a coordinator of Project Scorpio team (Wrocław University of Technology) who won the first ERC and didn't win twice in URC, then being a judge and a commenter in two ERCs, running a company in mobile robotics and ended up coming back as a partner and coorganizer of the competition. I've been on both sides of the Challenge and can honestly say: it's great to be back.

Anna Łosiak

Main judge of the SCIENCE task – ERC2021

Ania is a planetary geologist working at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She focuses on studying impact craters and surficial processes on Mars. She is also involved in various outreach activities and Mars analog missions. She studied geomorphology and sedimentology at the University of Warsaw, geology and meteoritics at the Michigan State University (funded by the Fulbright Graduate Student Award), and finally she obtained PHD at the University of Vienna. She is actively popularising planetary sciences in Poland – in TV, radio, multiple youtube channels, during Pyrkon and many other events. And most importantly, Ania is a main Science Judge and a proud designer of a Mars Yards for European Rover Challenge since 2019.

Krzysztof Walas

Main judge of the MAINTENANCE task (REMOTE) – ERC2021

Assistant professor at the Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (IRIM), Division of Control, Robotics and Electrical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology. He obtained a doctorate in technical sciences in 2012 in the discipline of Automatics and Robotics, specialization in Robotics. His scientific interests are walking robots and the perception of the robots' environment that allows them to interact with the environment based on the laws of physics – recognizing materials and modeling their properties. His internship took place at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Robert Lubański

Since 2016, the president of Mars Society Poland, with which he has been associated with since 2007. He supports the development of robotics among Polish students, among others, by co-organizing their trips to the University Rover Challenge and coordinating the project to popularize the idea of ​​building Martian robots at Polish technical universities. From the very beginning, he was involved in the organization of the European Rover Challenge in Poland.