| Main Dates: | |
| 1935 | July 12, born in Lvov, Poland (now in Ukraine) |
| 1956 | M. Sc. (Civil Engineering), Cracow University of Technology (CUT) |
| 1957-62 | Design Engineer in the Cracow Office of Industrial Structures |
| 1959-64 | University Assistant at the Chair of Strength of Materials and Structural Statics (CSMSS) of CUT |
| 1964 | D. Sc. (Eng.), CUT |
| 1964-72 | Assistant Professor at CSMSS of CUT |
| 1970 | Habilitation, CUT |
| 1972-78 | Associate Professor, CUT |
| 1973-78 | Head of Computer Center of CUT |
| 1978 | Full Professor, CUT |
| 1978-92 | Head of the Laboratory of Structural Stability and Computational Methods in the Institute of Structural Mechanics of CUT |
| 1988 | Visiting Professor at TU Delft, the Netherlands |
| 1989 | Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 1990 | Active Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts (the oldest Polish Academy of Sciences reactivated in Cracow in 1989) |
| 1991-93 | Vice-Rector for International Relations and University Staff of CUT |
| 1993- | Head of the Chair of Computational Structural Mechanics at the Institute of Computer Methods in Civil Engineering (ICMCE) of CUT |
| 1997- | Director of ICMCE of CUT |
| 1998- | SEFI ((Societé Européenne pour la Formation des Ingenieurs) Fellow |
| 2001 | Doctor Honoris Causa of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary |
| 2001 | Laureate of Subsidy for Scientists of the Polish Foundation for Science in the field of technical sciences |