Professor Kazimierz Stępień
Deputy Chairman of the FNP Council

Born 15 November 1940 in Częstochowa, he is a graduate of the Warsaw University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Since 1962 he has been an associate of the Astronomical Observatory of Warsaw University, currently as a professor.
Chairman of the PAS Astronomy Committee since 2003, he is a member of the PAS Committee for Space and Satellite Research, and the Board of the PAS Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomy Centre in Warsaw which he chaired during the years 1996-2003. He was in charge of the Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy Group of the State Committee for Scientific Research during its fourth term of office.
During the years 1990-1996 he was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Physics at Warsaw University.
From 1970 to 1990 he was editor-in-chief of "Acta Astronomica", an international scientific quarterly. During the years 1988-1990 he was deputy chairman of the Polish Astronomic Society. He is a member of the International Astronomic Union (a representative of Poland since 1994) and other similar associations abroad.
His main field is astrophysics, in particular the theoretical and observation-based research on variable stars, especially those with magnetic surface fields.
Professor Stępień is the author of approximately 100 articles and papers published in international scientific periodicals, over 100 popular scientific articles and entries for encyclopaedias, as well as an academic handbook "The Physics of the Atmospheres of Stars" published by Warsaw University in 1983.
He has promoted five Ph.D. recipients.

Address for correspondence:
Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory,
Al. Ujazdowskie 4,
00-478 Warszawa, Poland
Tel. (+48 22) 629 40 11,

e-mail: kst@astrouw.edu.pl