Prof. Marek Gorgon received MSc (1988), Ph.D.(1995) and D.Sc. (2007) from AGH University of Krakow, Poland. He has been employed since 1994 on a permanent position at the Department of Automatics and Robotics of AGH, currently as the Full Professor. He has held research internships at several European universities in Germany, Italy, Denmark and Portugal.

Since 2020 has served as Vice-Rector for Science, having previously headed the Department of Automation and Robotics at AGH University. From 2012 to 2020 he was a member of the AGH University Senate.

His research interests include: image processing, software–hardware codesign, reconfigurable devices, embedded systems and applications. His research focused on the vision system architectures, with a particular attention to real-time systems and FPGA reconfigurable architectures.

He is a member of the Committee on Automation and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the international scientific team of the ALICE High Energy Physics Experiment at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), a member of scientific societies and steering or scientific committees of many international conferences in his field of interest (FPL, ARC, DASIP) and IEEE Senior Member. He has written two scientific monographs and is the author of 250 scientific publications.