Michał Wasilczuk received his M.Sc. (1986), Ph.D. (1994) and D.Sc. (2004) from the Gdansk University of Technology. In 2016 was nominated Professor

Currently he is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Machine Design and Automotive Engineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineers at GUT

Bearing systems and tribology are the main fields of his scientific and engineering interest - starting from the Ph.D. devoted to the research of a hydrodynamic axial bearing with and elastic thrust plate. In 1998 the team at GUT started their work on large thrust bearings of hydroelectric power plants. This work comprised troubleshooting, field tests, development of calculation and test methods, as well as the design of bearings for modernized power plants. The research programs were financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and by various companies. Three PhD dissertations were completed under his supervision. Recently a problem of low durability of wind turbine gearboxes was underteken by prof. Wasilczuk.

His experience in the field of large thrust bearings is described in an entry at “Encyclopedia of Tribology” published in 2013 by Springer and in the book “Large Size Hydrodynamic Thrust Bearings” published in Polish.