Minister of Science and Higher Education, Jarosław Gowin, appointed Prof. Grzegorz Węgrzyn to the position of the chairman of the Council of Scientific Excellence (DAM). He will lead the work of the council that will take care of the highest standards of quality of scientific activity required to obtain academic titles.

The Scientific Excellence Council is a new organization that cares for the highest standards of scientific quality required to obtain academic titles. Ultimately, the DAM will replace the Central Commission for Titles in the supervision of individual promotion proceedings.

Professor Grzegorz Węgrzyn was born in 1963 in Gdańsk. He is the head of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Gdańsk (UG). In the years 2002-2008 he was the dean of the Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology of the University of Gdańsk, and in 2008-2016 he was the vice-rector for science at the University of Gdańsk.