Sławomir Łotysz

Base

Name

Sławomir Łotysz
Academic title(s)

Dr. (Hab.)
Institute

Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
Function

Researcher
Address

ul. Nowy Swiat 72, p. A09
Zip code

00-330 Warszawa
Country

Poland
Phone

+48 605 224 326
Visible Email Address

s.lotysz@gmail.com
Short biography

Sławomir Łotysz is a professor at  the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, where he defended his Ph.D. (2005) and Habilitation (2014). In 2011-12 he took part in Making Europe research project as one of the editors of the virtual exhibit http://www.inventingeurope.eu. Since 2002 he has been with the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), serving Secretary General (2013-17). In 2017 he has been elected the President.
Recent publications

– Unknown image of the reality of the occupation: The issue of rubber plant cultivation in recollections of Auschwitz female prisoners, farmers and children (text in Polish: Nieznany obraz rzeczywistości okupacyjnej: Kwestia uprawy roślin kauczukodajnych we wspomnieniach więźniarek Auschwitz, rolników i dzieci). „Kultura Współczesna”. 2 (2017): 66-81.
– Sailors and syphilis on Europe’s waterways. International Health Organizations and the Rhine Commissions, c. 1900-1953. „Hygiea Internationalis“. Vol. 13 No. 1 (2016): 49-64
– 89mm From Europe: Mediating Railway Mobility on Russia’s Western Peripheries, in Simone Fari, Massimo Moraglio (ed.). „Peripheral Flows. A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes“. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ​ISBN 978-1-4438-9048-9​. pp. 100-126.
– A ‘Lasting Memorial’ to the UNRRA? Implementation of the Penicillin Plant Programme in Poland, 1946–1949. „ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology“. Vol. 20 No. 2 (2014): 70-91.
– Tailored to the Times: The Story of Casimir Zeglen’s Silk Bullet-Proof Vest. “Arms & Armour”, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2014): 164-86. DOI 10.1179/1741612414Z.00000000040
– Controlling the Production and Distribution of Drugs in Communist Poland. „Medicina nei Secoli“. Vol. 26 No. 2 (2014): 519-556.
Role in Tensions of Europe

Participant
Research interests

Health, Mobilty, Waste and Reuse